{"id":740,"date":"2011-08-11T14:55:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T14:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/?p=740"},"modified":"2011-08-11T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T14:55:40","slug":"buckfast-abbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"Buckfast Abbey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last day in Devon and the weather wasn\u2019t too cracking! We decided to have a drive up to Buckfast Abbey (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buckfast.org.uk\">http:\/\/www.buckfast.org.uk<\/a>) and then call to a couple of smaller castles on the way back down to Greenway. However, when we got to Buckfast we were very impressed. It\u2019s a lovely layout they have for visitors which we didn\u2019t expect. A short film show talked about the start of the Abbey, and the 6 monks who built it themselves from scratch with a starting fund of just \u00a35. One of the monks was a mason, the others learnt the trade and even made their own tools and equipment. An amazing feat.<\/p>\n<p>We then had a look around the church and gardens. There was a lavender garden, sensory and herb garden. We then visited an art exhibition, bookshop and gift shop and had a nice coffee.<\/p>\n<p>We travelled back instead of calling at the castles ready to get packed so we can have a relaxing evening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.1.12\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSCF4684.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Buckfast Abbey, Devon\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Buckfast Abbey, Devon\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.1.12\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSCF4684_thumb.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.1.12\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSCF4678.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Buckfast Abbey, Devon\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Buckfast Abbey, Devon\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.1.12\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DSCF4678_thumb.jpg\" width=\"241\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last day in Devon and the weather wasn\u2019t too cracking! We decided to have a drive up to Buckfast Abbey (http:\/\/www.buckfast.org.uk) and then call to a couple of smaller castles on the way back down to Greenway. However, when we got to Buckfast we were very impressed. It\u2019s a lovely layout they have for visitors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vacations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}