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Welcome to Stoneleigh Abbey

With humble beginnings as a Cistercian monastic house in 1154, Stoneleigh Abbey was converted at the Dissolution into a comfortable family home.
One of the seats of the Leigh family, Stoneleigh Abbey has played house to several people of note, including King Charles I, Queen Victoria, and novelist Jane Austen.

Jane Austen & Stoneleigh Abbey

Jane stayed at Stoneleigh Abbey in 1806 with her mother a relative of the Reverend Thomas Leigh

Humphry Repton Walks

With spectacular views of the house across the River Avon, the Repton Walk takes you into the woodland, where bluebells, snowdrops, deer, and many other native species thrive.

Weddings at Stoneleigh Abbey

We will make your wedding the truly special and memorable occasion you have always dreamed about

Whats On

15th June 2022

"A History in Glass" Talk

Part of The Season of Talks by Historian Sheila Woolf
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22nd June 2022

A Midsummers Nights Dream at Stoneleigh Abbey

Five couples – three human, one fairy, and one mythical – find their relationships sorely tested, intimately probed and indecently exposed when a troupe of amateur theatricals bumble into the forest to rehearse a play.
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