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Further reading about Bordesley Abbey:

Museum guidebooks ;
Bordesley Abbey Past and Present.
The Abbey Meadows Trail (Redditch Borough Council)

Contact -

Forge Mill Museum, Needle Mill Lane, Riverside,
Redditch,
Worcs B98 8HY

01527 62509

Bordesley Abbey (British Archaeological Reports 23, 1976)
authors - P Rahz and S Hirst

Bordesley Abbey II( Archaeological Report 111, 1983)
authors - S M Hirst, D A Walsh and S M Wright

A medieval industrial complex and its landscape; the metalworking watermills and workshops of Bordesley Abbey(Council for British Archaeology Research Reports 1992, York)

The History of Bordesley Abbey (Parker, London and Oxford, 1866) author - JM Woodward

Information on the Cistercians

The white monks : the Cistercians in Britain 1129 - 1540 (Stroud 1998)
Author - G Coppack

Web sites

Bordesley Abbey Excavations - www.rdg.ac.uk/bordesley/index.htm