Coombe Abbey
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Coombe Abbey
Coombe Abbey is an hotel in
Warwickshire
,
England
which has been developed from an historic
country house
. The house is classified as a Grade I
listed building
. The house's original grounds are now a
country park
known as Coombe Country Park, and run by
Coventry City Council
.The hotel is located in the countryside between
Coventry
and
Brinklow
, roughly midway between the two. Coombe Abbey was founded as a
monastery
in the
12th century
. Following the
Dissolution of the Monasteries
in the
16th century
, it became royal property.
Elizabeth of Bohemia
, the daughter of king
James I
was educated there in the early
17th century
; had the
Gunpowder Plot
succeeded she was to have been abducted from Coombe Abbey and proclaimed as Queen Elizabeth II.
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