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Ripon So today we went on a road trip to York with Dom and Christoph which is about 2 hours drive from Newcastle. On the way, we stopped off in Ripon which has a massive cathedral... which according to Dom in comparison to others around the place, is actually incredibly small. The town itself was small and all the roads were real narrow. We struggled to find somewhere to park, but eventually we managed to get to the Cathedral. The place as massive. It was amazing to imagine this had been built by humans. It was so big I had [View Full Entry]

Blueveincustardthrower - Geoff Callender | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 23rd 2008 | 63 Views | [diary=303520]

Ripon Cathedral
Ripon Cathedral
Ripon Cathedral

Today we went to Fountains Abbey. It is Britain's largest monastic ruin, founded in 1132 by 13 Benedictine monks. It was sold in 1540 to a merchant following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 by Henry VIII. It's a shame that so many of the beautiful abbeys were destroyed during that time period. I tried not to go overboard on the photos in this section. I took 57 photos of the abbey and have only posted the good ones. I have more than a couple not so good photos. I didn't know you could get blurry photos with a digital [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 9th 2008 | 135 Views | [diary=297262]

Fountains Abbey
Fountains Abbey
Fountains Abbey

By MarkandJulia
February 14th 2008
Day 13 Europe » United Kingdom » England » North Yorkshire » Ripon
Gday Everyone Well today we started out from the New Holly Inn in Lancaster (we thoroughly recommend this hotel if you are anywhere near there) We decided to drive through the Lake District and then on through the Yorkshire Dales. The first stop we had was at The Aquarium of The Lakes at Lakeside on Windermere where they have some very different fish there including Piranha. We saw some shark eggs that had babies writhing around in them (shark babies), otters tturtles and so on, a great way to spend an hour or so. We then drove on through Near Sawrey [View Full Entry]

MarkandJulia - Mark Forrester | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: February 14th 2008 | 55 Views | [diary=246352]

A Piranha
A poison dart frog
Getting on the ferry

One weekend out at ripon day 2 You know when you are on holiday, you do not want any alarm clock, mobile phone, any noise in the morning. So although I was not happy with the fact that we had to get up as early as usual with the alarm clock in the morning, I was pretty excited about what we were going to do for the day. Full English breakfast, I really meant full English breakfast, as I had each single thing on the breakfast list, sausage, bacon, tomato, fried bread, black pudding, eggs, toast, prunes, juice and tea. Based [View Full Entry]

cupcake delicious - hedy | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 26th 2006 | 80 Views | [diary=106180]

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One weekend out at Ripon Friday Ripon, 1 hour away from Leeds, is a tiny old city, so I prefer to call it “town”. And Fountains Abbey with Studley Royal Water Garden, four miles west of Ripon, is of outstanding historic and aesthetic importance with the history of 800 years. It was declared a World Heritage site in 1987. We got on train toward Harrogate at burley park station at 18:03. The train was busy as usual. The ticket man still tried his best to get everyone pay for ticket. Ripon as a city, there is no train station. Luckily the [View Full Entry]

cupcake delicious - hedy | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 26th 2006 | 51 Views | [diary=106153]

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