Hulton Abbey, Stoke on Trent

Courtesy of The Potteries Museum Art Gallery:
Location: Just off the junction of A5009 Leek Road and Woodhead Road.
The site of the Medieval Cistercian Abbey was acquired by Stoke-on- Trent City Council in 1987 and excavated by The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery's Archaeology Field Unit between 1987 and 1994. The Abbey was founded by Henry De Audley in 1219 and consecrated in 1223. Following the dissolution in 1538 the site was lost until 1884; it was located during a chance excavation, later being investigated and published by Lynam.

The site is freely open to the public


Courtesy of the Telegraph

by Laura Clout

12:01AM GMT 18 Feb 2008

A mutilated body found in an abbey graveyard has been identified as that of a notorious medieval villain rumoured to have been the gay lover of Edward II.