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![[Picture: Gate of St John’s Abbey, Colchester]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-TheBritishIsles/pages/vol3-030-Gate-of-St-Johns-Abbey-Colchester/vol3-030-Gate-of-St-Johns-Abbey-Colchester-q90-718x698.jpg "[Picture: Gate of St John’s Abbey, Colchester]")
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Built around the 1400s to help defend an Abbey that was even then some 300 years old, today the gate is open to the public.
