, Richard Taylor has had a lifelong interest in the medieval monasteries of England & Wales. This was spawned by his parents with family holiday trips to ruined abbeys and priories, medieval parish churches and castles. He has spent over forty years in the aircraft industry but his passion is heritage. Across the years he has visited many of the locations featured in this, his first book. It aims to shed light on one of the lesser known aspects of medieval monasticism in England and Wales,