A Walk in The Cleveland Hills and The Lord Stones
This area is one of the prettiest I have seen with acres of heather, fern and pine trees greeting you as soon as you leave the main road. It lies north east off the A172…
Mount Grace Priory – Britain’s best preserved Carthusian priory
Mount Grace Priory was founded in 1398 by Thomas Holland 1st Duke of Surrey, and was the last monastery established in Yorkshire before the Reformation. It is the best preserved of the ten medieval Carthusian…
Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden
The land at Fountains was granted to 13 Cistercian Monks back in the year 1132 AD, when there was unrest at St Mary’s abbey in York. The monks fled under the protection of Archbishop Thurstan…
Flamborough Head – Britain’s northern chalk sea cliff
Flamborough Head is situated just north of Bridlington on the East coast of Yorkshire. The only chalk cliffs of northern Britain, this Jurassic, natural sea wall contrasting greatly with the geology more norm to the…