The gaunt skeletal but evocative sandstone ruins of the Abbey with its grand arches and columns which date from the13th century

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Location: Whitby Abbey, Whitby, East Yorkshire YO 22 4JT
Photo credit: © George Brice / Alamy / Afripics
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