Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal

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Just outside Ripon in North Yorkshire,UK stand the extensive ruins of an ancient abbey alongside a spectacular water garden.  The Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal UNESCO World Heritage Site is managed by The National Trust.  The Fountains Abbey was founded in 1132 and was home to a Cistercian Order of monks until the Dissolution of… Read More

Lacock Abbey

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Lacock Abbey

Lacock Abbey, in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a nunnery of the Augustinian order.  It is also where William Henry Fox Talbot captured the world’s first photographic negative, an invention which would change the way we see the world. … Read More