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I went to Bolton Abbey for the first time - why it's worth the eye-watering car park fee
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01/05/2025
I went to Bolton Abbey for the first time - why it's worth the eye-watering car park fee
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Here I am at Bolton Abbey on a beautiful sunny day.
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Yeah, so it's been on my to-do list for quite a while. It's about an hour away from where
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I live. It's in North Yorkshire and the first thing to mention is when you get there, it's
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free entry but you have to pay £15 to park your car. When you've got over that, then
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there is a little shop and a little cubbyhole selling some drinks. You walk past that, turn
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right and you get to a wall which has got a gate and you go through that and wow, it
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opens up and you see what Bolton Abbey is all about. I was expecting the ruins of the Priory
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which dates back to about 1100 and something but what I wasn't expecting was such a beautiful
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area. I believe that it spans about 30,000 acres. There's a river that runs through it
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with these stepping stones and yes, people do queue up to get across them and one of them
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is missing so be very careful.
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But there's also a beach area to play on and dig in, skimstones. There's woodlands. The whole
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area is dog friendly apart from one part of the wood I believe. There was an ice cream van
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there, selling drinks and ice creams. It is a wonderful day for the whole family. That's
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kind of their slogan and it absolutely is. There was lots of areas we didn't have a chance
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to explore but we will be back. We will be getting the fishing nets and taking a picnic.
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It was absolutely wonderful and yes, I begrudgingly say that it was worth a £15 entry.
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