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Description: | Abbotsbury, situated at one end of the Fleet Lagoon (and in the vicinity of Chesil Beach and the Isle of Portland), was once the site of a monastery which maintained a swannery. It is also the home of the oldest duck decoy in England where ducks would be enticed into the area and the killed for the monks to eat. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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