"In Wensleydale, between Bedale and Leyburn on
the river Eure, stands all that remains of Jervaulx
Abbey. The monastery was first founded at a place
in the same neighbourhood called Fors, or Dalegrange
in 1145 by a few monks of Savigny. Five years later
the infant community placed themselves under the Benedictine abbey of Byland in the same county of
Yorkshire; and in 1150 an abbot and twelve monks were
sent thence to colonize Dalegrange."
Extract from "The Greater Abbeys of England" (Open Library).
Jervaulx Abbey is a English Heritage property with free entry for English Heritage members.
