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Fountains Abbey

British  
/ ˈfaʊntɪns /

noun

  1. a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Closer to home, he took his family to a middle-of-nowhere ruins, Fountains Abbey, where the few strangers there addressed him by his TV name: “Oh, hey, Nate. How are you? You all right?”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2022

If approved, York could join the likes of Edinburgh and Bath on the Unesco list, as well as Yorkshire landmarks Saltaire, Fountains Abbey and Haworth high street.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2022

With works including sketches by Jean Cocteau and Andy Warhol and David Hockney’s “Ian, Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire” photographic collage, the London-based fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu has turned his Mayfair boutique into a home.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2016

Not everyone can visit Penshurst or the National Gallery or Fountains Abbey "out of hours", as Bennett's programme note implies he is able to do.

From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2012

Ripon, with its cathedral and Fountains Abbey, perhaps the finest ruin in Great Britain, is only a dozen miles away; but we visited these on our return to London from the north.

From British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland by Murphy, Thomas Dowler

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