The National Trust has unveiled its plans to revamp the visitor facilities at Studley Royal Water Garden on the historic estate surrounding the ruins of Fountains Abbey, near Ripon.

Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal attracts more than 400,000 visitors a year. It includes the ruins of a 12th Century abbey and the landscaped Georgian water garden with statues and follies.

Studley Royal Park is one of the few great 18th century gardens to survive substantially in its original form, ... The main visitor facilities, services and car parking are provided at the Visitor ...

Start at Fountains Abbey Visitor Centre entrance (Free parking). (GR: SE 273 687, What3Words: ... Moderate. 7 Our walk takes us through the landscaped grounds and deer park of Studley Royal, ...

ON A hill top at one side of a wooded valley sits an octagonal tower. Built in the mid-1730s, the mellow stone building, visible through a break in the trees, is a splendid sight, picked out in ...