 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm at Bolton Abbey station. I've been on the MSN Bolton Abbey Railway. I've had a great time riding up and down the railway. We've also been on the Hamilton Valley Miniature Railway but now we're going to go to Bolton Abbey itself. So I'm going to leave the station and we're going to walk about one and a half miles up to Bolton Abbey. I'm just walking down the path from Bolton Abbey station. The railway line would have once carried on along there towards Oakley. Now there's an interesting structure there. At the start I was thinking, oh is that a road? But then I realised it's an aqueduct or it's carrying a pipe. There's quite a few pipelines from various reservoirs that head down the valleys supplying water to Bradford. Now some of them have been, you know, stopped them spoiling the landscape, rather than just have a pipe crossing the landscape. They've built around them to make them look, you know, just a bit more pleasing to the eye. So what we're going to do, we're going to go down there. I've already seen a little ruined Abbey sign on the other side of the road. But first, let's just go and have a look at this. Actually, I've now seen the sign that says Bolton Abbey so I'm thinking it could go that way, but we're going to do this road. Anyway, here is this aqueduct. So this can't go on at the gate's padlock. But this is carrying a pipe through the landscape. And it just makes it look a bit more pleasing to look out rather than just a pipe. So you've kind of, well, it looks like a bridge, a little river down there, and then it goes under the ground again. The rail line would have been up there. I'm going to carry on walking down here in the direction of Bolton Abbey. I've just come across the fields and now I'm coming to the village of Bolton Abbey. That's the Devonshire Arms, and it's on this side of the water. I was going to show you the kitchen garden, which is really quite pleasant. Always enjoy seeing gardens. Still a bit of a way from the Abbey. I've got to carry on walking up the road, but I just wanted to show this little bit here to you, the kitchen gardens. And as I said, that's Devonshire Arms. So that's the hotel and it's the pub. Might go in there for a pint later. That's the kitchen gardens. And then we've crossed the road now. We'll carry on up here. So soon we should be at Bolton Abbey. I've just come down into the Bolton Abbey estate. I believe this is the Abbey house behind me here. If we pan around, you can see the river off, which runs along there. So the Abbey is famous for being in the valley of the river off. It's actually not an Abbey though. It's actually Bolton Priory, but it's commonly known as Bolton Abbey. It's an Augustian Priory. Most of it, you know, followed the usual story, was dissolved. Most of it is a ruin, but as we'll see in a moment, a section of it does survive as the local parish church. They used part of the church to become the parish church, which, you know, makes sense. And there's quite a lot of Abbeys and priors around where the part of the church, usually the church itself is the parish church. As we come along here, there we have in front of us the surviving section of the Abbey is the parish church. And then you've got the north and south transept and the chancell in ruins. So what we'll do, we'll go and have a look in what there is of the church. And then we'll go and have a look around the ruins. And then we'll go down to the river because there's the very famous stepping stones of Bolton Abbey. That's the image most people think of when they hear Bolton Abbey. There's a helical. So we're getting our view over there of the beautiful house. So there's some landing on these tables. It's interesting. Just in front of the Abbey. Here we have a slot to be on here, but one or two through there. It's a bit like a church in Hungary. Quite often in Hungary, you can get this one to a church. You can put the camera through, you can see. There you go. That's inside the church. Turn the camera around. Looks a bit bright. There is a beautiful window up there, but the sun's shining so brightly through it. You can't see it. So what we'll do, we'll go back out the way we came and we'll go and have a look around the ruins of the Abbey. So we've come to here. We've got some quite low-walled ruins here. What you see in front of us where those two ladies are there, that would have been the other side of the cloister. So it's a very small cloister here. You know, some Abbeys have a much larger cloister. It's probably one of the smallest cloisters I've ever seen for what would have once been a very big grand church. So I'm just walking around here to the cloister now. I'm going to take you through that arch. That's where the chapter house would have been. Well, what I'll do, I'll show you from here first. That area there, that was the original chapter house. And then, you know, as they have money, they developed and built a second chapter house just through here. So we come from here, there's the castle. This area here would have been the chapter house. It would have been a round building. You can see one of the Ligema buildings. See where the piers would have gone up. Go and see inside the church itself. The section that's used for the local parish church. Walking around here to the cloister now. I'm going to go up here. And here we are in the south transept. So there's probably been another big ground window there. Not so much down here because there were buildings here. And that's where the chapter house would have been. There's probably been a couple of little chapels here. And then this is the crossing. So remember, that wall there wouldn't have been there because it would have been one through church all the way through. That's looking down the church. And that is the north transept. So we'll go through now into the north transept. As we come round here, we come towards the graveyard of the Abbey. I'll just get my first glimpse of the famous stepping stones. I was thinking about making a video walking across. I'm not going to do that because there's a big queue of people wanting to use the stepping stones. They're a very popular part of the Bolton Abbey estate. So I think what I'll do, I'll show you the stepping stones but I'm not actually going to walk across them whilst making a video. Down here we have more of the Abbey's graveyard. So what I'll do, let's go round here. And right round the end of the church now. There you go. Big and grand that window would have been, I don't know what if it's the biggest but certainly one of the biggest I've ever seen. Coming back round to here for the chapter house again. What we'll do, we'll go down towards the river and I'll take you over the river on the bridge adjacent to the stepping stones. So we can go down here. Now we're looking rather spectacular behind us. And there's the graveyard. So what I might do when I finish looking at the Abbey, I might walk further on up the valley. There's some really nice walks to be had in the area. So there's a section of woodland known as the Strid. I'm not sure what there is to see there but I believe it's a very deep valley. So I might head up there. I haven't quite decided yet. I might just when I finish filming get an ice cream. I'm not sure. But here we are. Here is the river off. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. Apologies if I'm not. There's the very famous stepping stones. There's a lot of people on them. So I'm not going to attempt to do them whilst on film. What I'm going to do is across the bridge here and let you see the views from the bridge. So there's a bit of a weir here. There's the stepping stones down there. There's the loud weir of the river. Shall we get into the other side? So again, there's the stepping stones. So my plan had been I was thinking I'd walk across there doing the video but like I said it's not really going to work with all those people there but it's nice to see they're all having such a nice time. And here is that very famous image of the stepping stones with the ruins of Bolton Abbey in the background. So I hope you enjoyed this video. If you're in the area, do do the same in Bolton Abbey. Walk down like I did from the car park. It's a lovely pace. Thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe, comment from by the stepping stones at Bolton Abbey. Goodbye.