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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 421 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NETLEY  , a

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village in the
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Fareham
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parliamentary division of Hampshire, England, 3 m . S.E. of Southampton on the east
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shore of Southampton
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Water, and on a branch of the
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London & South Western railway . Here a Cistercian abbey was founded in 1237 by Henry III., and its ruins'are extensive, including a
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great
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part of the cruciform church, abbot's house, chapter house and domestic buildings . The style is Early
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English and Decorated, and many beautiful details are preserved . The
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gatehouse was transformed into a fort in the time of Henry VIII . Netley Hospital for wounded soldiers (1 m . S.E. of the abbey), was built in 1856 after the
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Crimean War . It is a vast
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pile giving accommodation for upwards of a thousand patients, and is the
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principal military hospital in Great Britain .

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