Martyr
The Last Abbot of Whalley
A noose by the abbey.
See it clearly
- What's there
- Cistercian abbey ruins
- Legend from
- Whalley
- Tone
- Dark
The abbot's last day.
Whalley's last abbot, John Paslew, refused the oath of allegiance after the Pilgrimage of Grace and was executed with two monks in March 1537. A place in Whalley is traditionally shown as where he was hanged.