Saturday 29 August 2015

Days Out | Fountains Abbey, Ripon, North Yorkshire











Recently I went on a little day trip out into the North Yorkshire countryside and headed over to Fountains Abbey, near Ripon. A huge site, featuring a Elizabethan manor house and Georgian water gardens, my visit this time focussed on the ruins of the monastery that stood here from 1132 onwards. The ruins are beautiful; evocative and intriguing, beautiful and desolate. A perfect place to wander.








Fountains Abbey also has a reasonable cafe, toilets and the usual National Trust shop. There were loads of families about having picnics in the abbey grounds, with the children contentedly running amok amongst the ruins. 

£11.00 Adult, £5.50 Child, £27.50 Family. 
Free to National Trust members.


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