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Even before you arrive at the inn, the location is a corker, bang opposite the Gothic remains of Byland Abbey with its huge half-moon of empty rose window. If anything, the ruins look more dramatic when spotlit at night, which is when the Abbey Inn feels at its most welcoming as a retreat from the nearby North York Moors.
It must be the perfect country inn: an 18th-century former farmhouse of mellow stone, set in a beautiful, wooded valley, in the heart of the North York Moors National Park, four miles from Rievaulx Abbey and bang opposite the 12th century Cistercian, Byland Abbey. Jill Turton takes a first look at The Abbey Inn, Byland.
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