View across the cloister to 'laver' (washing) facility in the arcade wall of ruined Rievaulx Cistercian Abbey

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Location: Rievaulx Helmsley Yorkshire England UK
Photo credit: © wyrdlight / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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