Tintern Abbey
There is a lot more information available for Kingswood's sister abbey than there is for the fully demolished abbey. It even has its own legend! Twas the very next day, which was also the final day of our long weekend road trip, and following the suggestion of the friendly couple at Kingswood we went off to Wales to view Tintern Abbey for ourselves. First impressions? Mighty. These had to be the grandest and most appealing ruins we had seen since Whitby Abbey. Tintern can be traced, in part anyway, all the way back to Saxon times, or at least a structure was there then. We know this as Fred Hando had recorded the tradition of Tewdrig where the King of Glywysing retired to a hermitage above the river at Tintern to later come out of retirement to lead his son's army against said Saxons. They were victorious at the battle of Pont-t-Saeson, however the king was killed. This seems like a very Arthurian sort of legend in the sense we don't know if it was true or not, but at any...
