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The site is open to the public at all reasonable times and entry is free. Facilities are limited to a car park and a short path leading over the fields to the small 16th-century Keld Chapel, now in the care of the
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in 1190, but it moved to the present site, then called 'Hepp', in 1199. The old name meant 'a heap' but it gradually assumed the present-day name "Shap" over the next 100 years.
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Masonry was robbed away at the end of the 17th century to build Shap Market Hall, and much of the ornate carved stonework was also removed and used in the building of
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Although the present Shap Abbey was built in 1199, the monastic community was founded on another site 20 miles south near
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in 1536, but it was closed in 1540 and subsequently sold to the Governor of
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Regionally Important Geological / Geomorphological Sites (RIGS) in Cumbria
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This article about a Cumbria building or structure is a
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Christian monasteries established in the 12th century
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Monasteries dissolved under the English Reformation
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Order
Premonstratensian
Diocese
Shap Rural
Cumbria
England
Coordinates
54°31′49″N 02°42′01″W / 54.53028°N 2.70028°W / 54.53028; -2.70028
English Heritage
Premonstratensian
Canons regular
River Lowther
civil parish
Shap Rural
Shap
Eden District
Cumbria
England
English Heritage
Lake District National Park
Kendal
Richard Redman
Bishop of St Asaph
Bishop of Exeter
Bishop of Ely
Ely Cathedral
Dissolution of the Monasteries
Carlisle
Lowther Castle

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