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Ripon Only a short distance from Ripon is what may well be the most scenic of all Yorkshire's ruined abbeys and a world class site. This is Fountains Abbey. Its setting is wonderful and its grounds meet with the estate of Studeley Royal, also in National Trust ownership. The remains are far more extensive than those of most abbeys and it is easy to imagine it as a place of lay monastic life as well as a religious site. http://www.fountainsabbey.org.uk/ is an excellent site From here if you continue along the main road to Pateley bridge you will be able to turn off on signed minor roads to the south and reach Brimham rocks, an extraordinary array of rocks of convoluted shapes, again owned by the NT.
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