The cellarium at Fountains Abbey

Today we had a look around the market at Ripon and then made our way to Fountains Abbey for a last look around. I wanted to go to the vaulted room which I later found out was called the Cellarium. Amazingly the cellarium roof has remained intact and this is where the lay brothers ate, slept and socialised, beneath the incredible vaulted ceiling and escaped Henry VIII's brutal sixteenth century dissolution of the abbeys.

After a coffee in the tea room at the Abbey we finished off the day in Pateley Bridge where we found the oldest recorded sweet shop in Britain. I didn't resist this opportunity to buy Jen a box of chocolates which fortified our journey home.