I went to Bolton Abbey for the first time - why it's worth the eye-watering car park fee - video Dailymotion

I went to Bolton Abbey for the first time - why it's worth the eye-watering car park fee

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00:00Here I am at Bolton Abbey on a beautiful sunny day.

00:10Yeah, so it's been on my to-do list for quite a while. It's about an hour away from where

00:15I live. It's in North Yorkshire and the first thing to mention is when you get there, it's

00:21free entry but you have to pay £15 to park your car. When you've got over that, then

00:29there is a little shop and a little cubbyhole selling some drinks. You walk past that, turn

00:35right and you get to a wall which has got a gate and you go through that and wow, it

00:43opens up and you see what Bolton Abbey is all about. I was expecting the ruins of the Priory

00:49which dates back to about 1100 and something but what I wasn't expecting was such a beautiful

00:56area. I believe that it spans about 30,000 acres. There's a river that runs through it

01:01with these stepping stones and yes, people do queue up to get across them and one of them

01:06is missing so be very careful.

01:08But there's also a beach area to play on and dig in, skimstones. There's woodlands. The whole

01:15area is dog friendly apart from one part of the wood I believe. There was an ice cream van

01:20there, selling drinks and ice creams. It is a wonderful day for the whole family. That's

01:28kind of their slogan and it absolutely is. There was lots of areas we didn't have a chance

01:34to explore but we will be back. We will be getting the fishing nets and taking a picnic.

01:38It was absolutely wonderful and yes, I begrudgingly say that it was worth a £15 entry.