The largest monastic ruin in England, a Cistercian abbey founded in 1132 and closed by Henry VIII, set in a wooded valley beside the River Skell. Next to it, the Georgian water garden of Studley Royal has ornamental lakes, canals, temples and cascades. Together they are a World Heritage Site.
Walk through the deer park to St Mary's Church, and allow most of a day. Come at dusk on summer evenings when the abbey is sometimes floodlit.
Strange balancing rock formations of millstone grit on a moor in Nidderdale, carved by ice, wind and rain into shapes with names like the Dancing Bea…
York Minster is one of the largest Gothic cathedrals in northern Europe, with the Great East Window, the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in…
The highest lake in England, surrounded by limestone pavement and moorland in the Yorkshire Dales.
A distinctive hill with a half-cone summit on the edge of the North York Moors, shaped by a geological fault and mining that collapsed its side.
A Victorian Gothic country-house hotel built in 1881, set in parkland on the edge of the North York Moors National Park at Scalby, just outside Scarb…
A medieval house built around a 14th-century tower, home to the Strickland family for over 700 years.
Comments
No comments yet.