Cistercian abbey on the banks of the River Skell, founded in 1132 and the largest monastic ruin in Britain; the ruins provide the dramatic focal point of the eighteenth-century landscape garden at Studley Royal; temples, follies, vistas, deer-park; small museum; St Mary’s Church, built by William Burges 1871-8. Interactive exhibition.Fountains Mill is one of the finest surviving monastic watermills in Britain:life-size, reconstructed, monastic mill machinery; mill pond; nineteenth-century waterwheel for saw-milling; turbine, one of the earliest to be installed in Britain, generated electricity for a dairy. Grind your own corn; see how the restored turbine lights the mill today; find out about the monks’ working lives; seek out the rat trail and piece together the story it tells of the history of the mill through the ages.