Entries for the tag ‘Rievaulx Abbey’
📌 Cistercian abbey in Rievaulx, near Helmsley, North York Moors, seized in 1538 under Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. 
- 7 January 1397: On the longest of the 42 days of his carnivalesque reign, boy-bishop John de Cave of York goes on a 200-mile begging spree
- 3 March 1607: During a tithe case at Kirkbymoorside, George Hutton (82) recalls Roland Blyton hunting at Skiplam and Welburn before the Dissolution 70 years ago
- 15 July 1802: In the Hambleton Hills, Dorothy and William Wordsworth visit Rievaulx and see Scottish cattle travelling to London
- 26 January 2007: John Revis, “a true Yorkshireman,” reacts to news that he bears an African-specific Y chromosome from an 18th-century ancestor
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