Category: Richmondshire
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Easby Abbey
Last Sunday’s wander through Richmondshire brought us to Easby Abbey, a place where ruin and landscape merge into a single, haunting picture beside the River Swale. Artists and antiquaries have long been drawn to it—J. M. W. Turner included—captivated by its quiet grandeur. The abbey was founded around 1152–1155 by Roald, constable of Richmond Castle,…
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Scorton
Headed west for a change. A cycling foray into the flat farmlands of the Vale of Mowbray. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983), the renown architectural writer, described Scorton as having “a rather large, somewhat shapeless green”. But it is an unusual green in the fact that it is raised higher than the rest of the village. There are only two such…