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In 1752 the buildings were bought by the Damer family: in 1771, to make way for a new house and landscaped estate, the 1st Baron Milton ( later 1st Earl of Dorchester ) demolished the remaining abbey buildings, keeping only part of the church as a private chapel, and the adjacent market town of Milton ( creating Milton Abbas to rehouse the former inhabitants ) in 1780.
His work still endures at Croome Court ( where he also designed the house ), Blenheim Palace, Warwick Castle, Harewood House, Bowood House, Milton Abbey ( and nearby Milton Abbas village ), in traces at Kew Gardens and many other locations.
Milton Abbas is a village in Dorset in the south-west of England, approximately seven miles south-west of the market town of Blandford Forum and 11 miles north-east of Dorchester.
He commissioned architect Sir William Chambers and landscape gardener Capability Brown ( both of whom had already worked on the Abbey building and grounds ) to design a new village, Milton Abbas, in a wooded valley ( Luccombe Bottom ) to the south of the Abbey.
Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester ( 12 March 1718 – 1798 ) was a wealthy landowner particularly associated with the reshaping of Milton Abbey and the creation of the village of Milton Abbas in Dorset, south-west England.
By 1780, most of the residents had been relocated to a new purpose-designed and built model village, Milton Abbas, approximately half a mile south-east of the Abbey ; the town's school was moved to Blandford Forum, seven miles away.
The Dissolution of the Monasteries closed the abbeys at Sherborne, Shaftesbury, Milton Abbas, Abbotsbury and Cerne Abbas, though both Sherborne and Milton abbeys were saved from destruction.
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