Fountains Abbey is the UK's largest monastic ruin and a World Heritage Site. Founded in 1132, this majestic abbey attracts 300,000 visitors a year. When the first monks arrived at Fountains, it was ...

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Fountains Abbey secured joint top spot in a survey to find Britain's best heritage site Fountains Abbey has secured joint top spot in a survey to find Britain's best heritage attraction. Which?

A travel writer has picked out a visit to Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire as one of the top 20 British experiences to have before you die. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post ...

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The ruined monastery near Ripon, North Yorkshire, and the yacht moored at Leith, Edinburgh, are visitors' joint favourite destination, according to consumer group Which?. They beat attractions ...

Multimillion-pound plans to improve a World Heritage Site in North Yorkshire have been submitted. The £3.5m proposals for the Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal estate, near Ripon, would focus on the ...

YOU could hear the singing as we approached. The unmistakable tune of Ding Dong Merrily on High, the words carrying across the wooded valley to our vantage point higher up. We had come to Fountains ...

The Hon John Byng found himself at Fountains Abbey on June 7 1792 and exclaimed: “Oh what a beauty and perfection of ruin!” A taste for ruins went with the fashionable Romantic sensibility of the day.

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FOUNTAINS Abbey near Ripon and the adjacent Studley Royal Water Gardens are a World Heritage Site, one of only 28 in Britain designated so by UNESCO, and indeed of “outstanding universal value”, worth ...