Photographs of Jervaulx Abbey

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Founded in 1156, Jervaulx was a Cistercian abbey, the daughter house of the abbey at Byland. The Abbey was the original home of Wensleydale cheese and was renowed for breeding horses.
Jervaulx Abbey suffered more heavily than other Yorkshire abbeys at the Dissolution because the last abbot was involved in the Pilgrimage of Grace and was hanged at Tyburn in June 1537. The abbey church was completely obliterated but substantial sections of the monks' dorter and the infirmary are still standing.