GCSE Visit to Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal

Each year the Year 10 History students go for a day visit to Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire.

The purpose of our annual visit to the site at Fountain's Abbey World Heritage Site in North Yorkshire is to enable students to examine the ruins, and find out more information about the way that monks and others lived in Medieval England.

During the annual visit to this dramatic remains of a Cistercian Abbey, the students are shown round the site, one of outstanding historis and aesthetic importance, by the History staff. The students are encouraged to take notes about their experience and also to take photographs of the day. They also visit the museum in the mill.

The Water Garden, with its formal, geometric design and its extraordinary vistas, was inspired by the work of the great French landscape gardeners but is entirely individual in character. The only professional advice John Aislabie appears to have received was from the distinguished Palladian architect, Colen Campbell. His gardener William Fisher was an employee of the estate, and the garden works were carried out by local labour under the direction of local man John Simpson.

Fountains Abbey with Studley Royal Water Garden, four miles west of Ripon in North Yorkshire, is of outstanding historic and aesthetic importance. Attracting approximately 300,000 visitors a year, Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal is the National Trust's most visited pay-for-entry property. Acquired by the Trust from North Yorkshire County Council in 1983, it was declared a World Heritage site in 1987. For  GSCE coursework students make judgments about how useful the site is compared to other sources.

Click on the link below to visit the official Fountains Abbey website:

http://www.fountainsabbey.org.uk/