In some of the grandest rooms of Newstead Abbey - the former home of the romantic poet Lord Byron - rotting timbers and ...

The ancestral Home of the Poet Lord Byron, Newstead Abbey is the inspiration for poetry written during his life here. Formerly a medieval priory, Newstead retains much of its monastic structure.

The Grade I-listed site, the ancestral home of poet Lord Byron, is on the heritage at risk register. Urgent repair work is due to take place at Newstead Abbey to remove it from an "at risk" register.

Aled Jones visits Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire. Curator Simon Brown explains how the abbey began as an Augustinian priory and it is thought one of the priests was Friar Tuck, one of Robin Hood's ...