Swannery

The history of the Swannery takes us back to Elizabeth's days, when one John

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

At the Dissolution the abbey came into the possession of an ancestor of the Strangeways who owned the Swannery when that first became known to history.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

From these is reached the Swannery, a large room on the west side of the house, built by the present owner, and finished in 1891; here there is an ornamental painting of swans by

The Kensington District The Fascination of London Walter Besant 1868

He said: ''Foxes follow the boundary fence looking for a way to get in to the Swannery and it's when they get to the water that we need to deter them.

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Swans at the Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset are protected by fences stretching nearly 60 metres out across the lagoon.

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