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 ...

Today’s Bygone Burnley episode sees us venture out of the borough and into the Ribble Valley and the historic Whalley Abbey.

In the town of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés lies a little gem, an ancient abbey founded in 639, of which only the ruins remain today, and which can be admired on guided tours organized by the Société ...

Canterbury's other important monuments are the modest Church of St Martin, the oldest church in England; the ruins of the Abbey of St Augustine, a reminder of the saint's evangelizing role in the ...

THE MOTHER of a teenager who suffered serious injuries in a fall from a historical monument is warning of the dangers of climbing it. Hope Thwaite, aged 16, was climbing the ruins of Basingwerk ...

Aled Jones is at Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, the largest Monastic ruins in the UK. He investigates its hidden treasures, including some remarkable new evidence about the community of monks and lay ...