Families can enjoy a budget-friendly day out this summer as Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal in North Yorkshire offer £1 ...

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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Ed Kluz says the work reflects on "echoes of history and how they shape our understanding of the present" A "powerful" immersive installation will cast new light on parts of a World Heritage site ...

When the abbey had a working tannery, people would not have noticed the smells in the way we would, writes Janet Edmunds It is very interesting that ground-penetrating radar has shown the outline of a ...

More than 500 graves discovered at North Yorkshire abbey, each with multiple burials in ‘bunk bed’ formation More than 500 graves of Cistercian monks and lay brothers have been discovered at one of ...

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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 ...

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.

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?