Lesnes Abbey
Former abbey in Abbey Wood, London, England
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Lesnes Abbey is a former abbey, now ruined, in Abbey Wood, in the London Borough of Bexley, south-east London, England. It is a scheduled monument, and the abbey's ruins are listed at Grade II by Historic England.
The adjacent Lesnes Abbey Woods are a Local Nature Reserve. Part of the wood is the Abbey Wood SSSI, a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which is an important site for fossils of the early Tertiary period.
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