Bolton Priory Ruins

Bolton Abbey is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, 22 miles north-west of Leeds. The village lies in Wharfedale, near the southern edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and just north of the border with West Yorkshire.

The village takes its name from the monastery now generally known as Bolton Priory, and is adjacent to the Bolton Abbey Estate, which includes the priory ruins.

There has been continuous worship on the site since 1154, despite the loss of most of the Priory buildings during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, aka the suppression of the monasteries, which was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded all Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; destroyed buildings and relics; dispersed or destroyed libraries; and provided for their former personnel and functions.

Today it is a bucolic setting. We had a lovely tea.Leia mais