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Extract from the Bolton Abbey Travel Guides:
BOLTON ABBEY
, five miles east of Skipton, is the name of a whole village rather than an abbey, a confusion compounded by the fact that the place's main monastic ruin is known as
Bolton Priory
(Mon-Thurs & Sat 8.30am-7pm, or dusk if earlier, Fri 8.30am-4pm; free), founded here in the 1150s. Turner painted the site, and Ruskin described it as the most beautiful in England, though the priory is now mostly ruined; only the nave, which was incorporated into the village church in 1170, has survived in almost its original state. The priory is the starting point for several highly popular riverside walks, including a footpath...
read the whole Bolton Abbey Travel Guides...
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