A leafy, picturesque village amid the rolling hills of the Yorkshire Dales, Bolton Abbey is a famously attractive town with a stone church and an evocative ruined priory. It is on a huge estate owned by the Duke of Devonshire, who still technically owns much of the area—a lingering reminder of the country's feudal past.
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