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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.