AN order of nuns in Worcestershire could soon be packing their cases and heading north - after being given permission to set up a new convent on a Yorkshire sheep farm.
The 24 sisters at Stanbrook Abbey in Callow End agreed to move two years ago as they felt the 19th-century premises in the village were too big for the size of the community
And before Christmas last year they identified a 36-acre site on farmland at Wass, near Thirsk in the North Yorkshire National Park.
The park's planning committee has now given them permission to set up a convent there and the order is now waiting for final Government approval on the move.
The Benedictine community has been based at Callow End since 1838.
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