Newstead Abbey and Park

Nine mi/14km north of Nottingham is Newstead Abbey, the family home of Lord Byron, whose tomb is in Newstead parish church. When he inherited the estate he and his mother were too poor to live there. In spite of his debts, however, he came to live in the house after leaving Cambridge, but was obliged to sell the property six years later (1817). The house was originally an Augustinian abbey founded in 1170 by Henry II. Of the original buildings there remain the west front of the church, the refectory, the chapterhouse (now a chapel) and the cloisters. Newstead now belongs to the city of Nottingham, and Byron's rooms have been preserved as they were in his lifetime, with many mementos of the poet. The garden contains very old and rare trees.

The abbey grounds also contain a Japanese garden, formal and tropical gardens and lakes and streams.