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Description: | Tintern was the wealthiest abbey in Wales, owning many estates. Most of the estates' inhabitants would have worked for the abbey. By the 18th century, its social makeup was a mixture of impoverished local people and wealthy tourists, existing side by side. William Coxe, a clergyman who visited Tintern around1801, wrote of reaching the abbey after "passing a miserable row of cottages, and forcing our way through a crowd of importunate beggars". | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Publisher: | F Jukes | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Jukes, Francis | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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