Furness Abbey, on the outskirts of Barrow, Cumbria, was founded about 900 years ago and was the first of England's "greater monasteries" to be dissolved during Henry VIII's religious reforms.

A watercolour by JMW Turner will return to public ownership and its home town in Wiltshire, it has been revealed. Malmesbury Abbey, which was painted by Turner at the age of 52, has been acquired ...