Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Day: 28 September 2020

  • Byland Abbey

    Byland Abbey

    In its heyday, Byland Abbey ranked alongside Rievaulx and Fountains as one of the three great monasteries of the north. But the Cistercian order from Savigny took 43 years to found a permanent site for their monastery. It began across the Pennines when, in 1134, a community of monks from Furness Abbey set out to…