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Elstow Abbey
Elstow, Bedfordshire | MK42 9XT
Elstow's mighty 13th century bell tower, one of only a handful of freestanding church towers in the country, looks out across the spacious village green and stands side by side with the remaining part of a Norman abbey, which is now the parish church.