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Nothing of the abbey church remians bar the external walls of the Presbytery at Easby Abbey, loctaed just out Richmone, North Yorkshire. A Premonstratensian (aka "Norbertine") foundation of Canons following the Augustinian Rule, but originally with the austerity of the Cistercians, the abbey suffered badly from the frequent Scottish border wars, damaged by both Scottish and English armies. It was among the first of the religious housed to be dissolved, in 1536