The area around Masham and Coverham Abbey in Wensleydale provided significant numbers for the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536. Coverham Abbey, a Premonstratensian house that would be dissolved the following year, served as a gathering point for rebels from the surrounding dales. The participation of the Wensleydale communities illustrated the breadth of opposition to the dissolution across the Yorkshire uplands — communities whose entire religious and social life was structured around the local abbeys were defending not just faith but their entire way of life.
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