Tourists at Fountains Abbey

Tourists at Fountains Abbey


Acarte-de-visite showing a group0 of well-dressed tourist admiring the ruins of Fountains Abbey. One of the largest and best preserved Cistercian monasteries in England, it is located approximately three miles south-west of Ripon in North Yorkshire. Founded in 1132, the abbey operated until 1539, when Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Photographed by H.C. Booth of Harrogate [Yorkshire].

 


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