Fountains Abbey

Bettany Hughes’s Ten Places, Europe and Us

Nov 14, 201622:41Society & Culture

Now a romantic ruin, Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire was a thriving industrial hub for the Cistercian order of monks in the 12th Century. Here Bettany meets archaeologist Mark Newman to bring the Abbey to life once mo...

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