Revesby

Revesby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is 7 miles south-east from Horncastle, 8 miles east from Woodhall Spa and 14 miles north from Boston, and on the A155. The parish includes the hamlet of Moorhouses 3 miles to the south of Revesby village.

The parish includes the site of the Cistercian abbey of SS Mary and Lawrence, founded in 1142 and colonised by monks from Rievaulx Abbey. The abbey was suppressed through the 1538 Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act. A post-restoration house was built close to the site of the abbey by Craven Howard. This house was rebuilt in 1849 as Revesby Abbey in Elizabethan style, to the 1843 design of William Burn, architect for Harlaxton Manor, with 330 acres of deer park. English Heritage styles the building Jacobean, with a build date of 1845. Revesby Abbey, with its stable yard, is Grade I listed. The deer park today holds an annual Revesby Country Fair.

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