Rievaulx Abbey

Year

1132

Type

building

Rievaulx Abbey was founded in 1132 in a narrow valley of the river Rye in the North York Moors as the first Cistercian abbey in northern England, with Walter Espec giving the land and twelve monks from Clairvaux Abbey establishing the house …

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