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The film Downton Abbey is a delicious look back at the high life of society in early 20th-century England. The major setting is the fictional country house set among the green hills and dales of the ...

Highclere Castle in southern England is the stand-in for Downton Abbey in the television series and the recently released movie. The fictional Downton Abbey, though, is set in Yorkshire. If you’ve ...

NORTH Yorkshire’s monastic past is to be celebrated this autumn with a range of events. During the medieval period, Yorkshire was home to more than a hundred monasteries. Some of this past will be ...

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This National Trust spot in North Yorkshire is a 'one-of-a-kind' place where you can see thousands of stunning snowdrops as ...

Two Yorkshire abbey ruins with weird, French-sounding names 30 miles apart. If you're even vaguely interested in medieval history both Jervaulx and Rievaulx are worth a visit. But which is the 'better ...

A £2.5m scheme in the Skell Valley hopes to protect Fountains Abbey and the city of Ripon Fountains Abbey, near Ripon, North Yorkshire, was originally set up by 13 Benedictine monks seeking refuge ...

Clues to a medieval farm linked to an abbey in North Yorkshire have been found during an archaeological dig. The wealth and quality of the finds at the site near Rievaulx Abbey had surprised experts, ...

I gaze up in eerie satisfaction at the skeletal ruins of Whitby Abbey, the 13th-century structure looming over the bay from its nightmarishly high position on the headland. After a month’s stay in ...

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