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Ballasalla, Isle of Man. |
www.rushenabbey.iofm.net |
Laare-Studeyrys Manninagh 6 Kingswood Grove, Douglas Isle of Man IM1 3LX |
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Ballasalla, Isle of Man. |
www.rushenabbey.iofm.net |
Laare-Studeyrys Manninagh 6 Kingswood Grove, Douglas Isle of Man IM1 3LX |
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A brief history of Rushen Abbey
A "splendid new church" and a School for Young Ladies (1800-1847) A newspaper advertisement in the "Manx Advertiser" in 1803 concerns the sale of fruit from the orchards, which suggest an established fruit business. A later advertisement in the "Manx Sun" in April 1836 advertised the sale of "Rushen Abbey......with Stables, Coach houses and Barns etc. and an orchard and garden within a high wall. In the late 1830s the Abbey was owned by a Reverend W. Ward who, according to the local newspaper the "Manx Sun" in 1838, planned to erect a "splendid new church" on the site. A plan which must have fallen through. In 1847 Miss Bell Anne Stowell and her sister Ellen Stowell moved their boarding school for young ladies from Douglas to Deemster Moores house, later the Abbey Hotel, at Rushen Abbey. It must have been at about this time that a jam-factory and fruit bottling
business became established, over the wall, on the southern two-thirds
of the site.
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