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Photo of Rievaulx Abbey, a ruined abbey in the North York Moors, North Yorkshire, northern England.

Rievaulx AbbeyPhoto Lewis Ashton / Pexels

Cistercian abbeysAbbeys & priories

The white monks, who took the wet unwanted valleys and built the most beautiful ruins in Britain. 24 on the map.

Boxley Abbey

Cistercian Abbey at Boxley

Kent

Photo of Byland Abbey, a ruined abbey near Coxwold in the North York Moors, North Yorkshire, northern England.Highlight

Byland Abbey

Ruined abbey with a great rose window.

North Yorkshire

Catesby Priory

Site of the medieval village, Cistercian Priory and post-Dissolution house and gardens of Lower Catesby, with associated ridge and furrow

Northamptonshire

Cistercian abbey (Leicestershire)

Cistercian abbey and mansion, with fishpond and mound at Garendon

Leicestershire

Cistercian abbey (Northamptonshire)

Cistercian abbey and medieval settlement at Pipewell

Northamptonshire

Ellerton Priory

Ellerton Priory: a Cistercian nunnery including fishponds, water management system, mill, field systems and Ellerton medieval settlement

North Yorkshire

Photo of Fountains Abbey, a ruined abbey near Ripon in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, northern England.Iconic

Fountains Abbey

The greatest monastic ruin in Britain, in a Yorkshire water garden.

North Yorkshire

Photo of Furness Abbey, a ruined abbey near Ulverston, Cumbria, north west England.Iconic

Furness Abbey

Vast red-sandstone monastic ruin in a wooded vale.

Cumbria

Hulton Abbey

Hulton Abbey: a Cistercian monastery adjacent to Leek Road, Abbey Hulton

Staffordshire

Jervaulx Cistercian Abbey

Jervaulx Cistercian Abbey, site of post-Dissolution grand house and gardens and World War II storage structures

North Yorkshire

Meaux Cistercian Abbey

Site of Meaux Cistercian Abbey

East Riding of Yorkshire

Merevale Abbey

Merevale Abbey, a Cistercian monastery, associated water control features and industrial remains

Warwickshire

Pinley priory

Pinley priory: a Cistercian nunnery and post-Dissolution garden

Warwickshire

Photo of Rievaulx Abbey, a ruined abbey in the North York Moors, North Yorkshire, northern England.Iconic

Rievaulx Abbey

Soaring Cistercian ruin in a wooded valley.

North Yorkshire

Photo of Roche Abbey, a ruined abbey near Blyth, South Yorkshire, northern England.Highlight

Roche Abbey

Cistercian ruin in a Capability Brown valley.

South Yorkshire

Romney Priory

Part of a Cistercian grange, north of New Romney High Street, also known as Romney Priory

Kent

Rufford Abbey

Rufford Abbey Cistercian monastery: monastic precinct, water-management works, pre-monastic open-field system and post-medieval building

Nottinghamshire

Sawley Cistercian abbey

Sawley Cistercian abbey and associated earthworks

Lancashire

Sawtry Abbey

Sawtry Abbey: A Cistercian abbey on the southern edge of Sawtry Fen

Cambridgeshire

Stanlaw Abbey

Stanlaw Abbey Cistercian monastery and monastic grange, Stanlow Point

Cheshire

Swine Cistercian nunnery

Site of Swine Cistercian nunnery

East Riding of Yorkshire

Photo of Waverley Abbey, a ruined monastery near Tilford, Surrey, south east England.Highlight

Waverley Abbey

England's first Cistercian abbey, riverside ruins.

Surrey

Photo of Whalley Abbey Gatehouse, a ruined abbey in Lancashire, north west England.

Whalley Abbey Gatehouse

Stone gatehouse of the 1300s that guarded the outer precinct of Whalley's Cistercian abbey, standing beside the village's great railway viaduct.

Lancashire

Whalley Cistercian abbey

The remains of a Cistercian abbey in Lancashire.

Lancashire