Multimillion-pound plans to improve a World Heritage Site in North Yorkshire have been recommended for approval. The £4.6m proposals for the Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal estate, near Ripon ...

In the 18th century a designed landscape of exceptional beauty was created around the ruins of the Cistercian Fountains Abbey, in Yorkshire. The spectacular ruins of the 12th century abbey and water ...

Fountains Abbey, near Ripon, was targeted sometime ... merchant Sir Richard Gresham before it eventually passed to the National Trust.

this is unprecedented at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal - a World Heritage Site that is loved by visitors locally, nationally and across the world," he added. Mr Scully said the National Trust ...