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British artist Steve Messam creates a temporary installation called Bridged in the National Trust Heritage Site in England.

With the national vaccination programme accelerated and the tightest Plan B restrictions now abandoned, it looks as though the embattled hospitality industry may be able to look forward to a rather more profitable spring than it has had for a couple of years.

A traditional Boxing Day pilgrimage, which follows in the footsteps of a group of Cistercian monks, took place from Ripon Cathedral.

A traditional Boxing Day pilgrimage, which follows in the footsteps of a group of Cistercian monks, is due to take place this year from Ripon Cathedral.

<strong>Letter: </strong>When the abbey had a working tannery, people would not have noticed the smells in the way we would, writes <strong>Janet Edmunds</strong>

Fountains Abbey, a ruined Cistercian monastery near Ripon in North Yorkshire, had two buildings dedicated to tanning operations, say experts. Tanning is converting animal skin into leather.

Experts have deciphered the original purpose of a mysterious patch of land next to Fountains Abbey in northern England.

Archaeologists at Fountains Abbey say it "had always been a puzzle" what the buildings were for.

Discovery of foundations of ‘industrial scale’ medieval tannery at abbey has astonished experts

Rosedale Abbey This walk begins in the picturesque village of Rosedale Abbey – itself a slight misnomer since there never was an abbey here, only a priory, and precious little remains even of that, its stones having been absorbed into the buildings that surround the village green.   We have a new walk around Kirkham Abbey in our April/May 2021 issue. On sale 21st April. All the routes were correct at the time of publication, over time access to certain parts of the walk may be subject to cha...