Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Clare Priory

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We took a walk down to Clare Priory, which is now some ruins and an old church in the grounds of a retreat centre. There is a little gate at the bottom of a windy path with a sign that says “NO ADMITTANCE, except to ruins and church”.
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3 comments

  1. I wonder if that is where I went to a rather strange “rock festival” at Clare in the 1980s? Run and mainly performed by “The Enid”, it mainly involved hanging around in a field!

    • It seems unlikely, because the priory is owned and run by Augustan monks, and has been since they returned there in 1953. However, a little investigation suggests that The Enid rented a farmhouse on the road behind the priory which was the home of their Lodge Recording Studio, so it is conceivable that you saw this building while at the Enid festival.

      Indeed, this actually may shine some light on another mystery, Adelle remembers going, as a child, to a party/festival in this area somewhere which sounds exactly like the sort of thing the Enid would have done, and which location corresponds with the description of farmhouse.

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