Bolton Priory

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Priory ruin on a bend of the Wharfe.

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Standing remainssubstantial fabric survives to stand in front of

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When the priory was dissolved in 1539 the parish was allowed to carry on worshipping in the nave, and that is still exactly what happens — a working church, with the roofless choir standing open to the weather beyond its east wall. It sits low by the Wharfe on the Bolton Abbey estate; the Strid is a mile upstream and the Dales Way goes past the door.

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