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Description: | View of a house near Tintern Abbey. Tintern was the wealthiest abbey in Wales, owning many estates. Most of the local people worked for the Abbey. By the 18th century, the area was a mixture of impoverished local people and wealthy tourists, living side by side. William Coxe, a clergyman who visited Tintern around 1801, 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: | T. Palser | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Prout, Samuel | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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