5. Looking down the river from the road bridge, with the Still Tower on the right, within the Bedford Hotel garden.

6. Looking from the same bridge up the river to the last remains of the old island that stood in the river .....

7. Zoomed view.

8. The pinnacles of Tavistock: Tavy (the river) + Stoc (Saxon for settlement).

9. Part of Abbey Place.

10. Zoomed view.

11. Welcome sign .....

12. Abbey Chapel, a place with a chequered history of some destruction and later rebuilding, evidenced by the remains of walls etc.

13. Sign in the Abbey Chapel garden .....

14. As previous photo.

15. Doorway with the trademark trefoil design of the Dukes of Bedford (see Earls of Bedford, 1551, under 5th Creation, and Dukes of Bedford, under 6th Creation, 1694): present and 15th Duke of Bedford.

16. Garden view.

17. There are many old headstones along the walls of the garden .....

18. To the memory of John Burgh. 

19. The Bedford ......

20. The Bedford Hotel.

21. Looking down at a much older ground level compared to the modern level of the ground in this area. 

22. The Still Tower, where the old Benedictine monks distilled spirits for medicinal purposes. The abbey was founded in 961 AD and dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538.

23. Bedford Hotel car park.

24. There is mention of Betsy Grimbal on this web page (look down to Tavistock). The real Grimbal may have been an Abbot of the Abbey? There is a list of the abbots where some went on to become bishops although Sihtric, circa 1043-1082 went on to become a pirate!

23. Nearby sign.

24. Betsy Grimbal's Tower. 

25. Artefacts under the arch including the roof timbers from the old Misericord, also the sarcophagus that contained bones that suggested the owner was around 7 feet tall, a giant, and were the bones of Ordulph - "..... ..... Ordulph appears in the Domesday Book as owning 22 manors, 19 in Devon, 2 in Cornwall and 1 in Somerset, he was described as a man of great strength and stature. His passion was hunting and it is said that his favourite hunting grounds were at Horton in East Dorset where he gave some benefactions to a recently founded abbey. Ordulph was so fond of this place that he expressed the wish for his mortal remains to be buried at the abbey. However, it is supposed that he actually died whilst out hunting on Dartmoor and once his remains were found the monks of Tavistock Abbey interred them alongside his ancestors in the abbey. ...... ..... "

26. Zoomed view.

27. Welsh poppy, growing in the cracks of the archway shown above. 

28. Cloisters sign ..... 

29. The surviving cloisters arch of the abbey.

30. Church of St. Eustachius, parish church of Tavistock, named after the Roman centurion who became a Christian. Montage of three photographs, I'm sure the roof ridge is not curved as it appears here, this is the result of the fish-eye effect of no zoom.  Click the image image to see a larger version.