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Old 12-01-2012, 20:58   #29
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Re: Accringtons Elusive Abbey

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Originally Posted by Retlaw View Post
The so called Unknown Tunnel, is nothing more than what was known back in the mid 1800's as Cow Houses. It is off Jacob St and is not a tunnel, it is a Cow House existing from the 1700's. In 1984 a member of the local Historical Society and Myself drew up detailed plans of the whole site from Abbey St to Jacob St, we also went inside and took several photographs. The presnt day entrance is not the original, it was extended some seven feet to provide footings for another building which was for stables for the old Red Lion Inn.
Retlaw
SO WHERE NEAR JACOB ST IS "COW hOUSES"?

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