SUMMER SOLSTICE 2022

 ROCHE ABBEY...set off at 11ish. R made me flask and sarnies, then remembered Wimpy! After Roche found Wimpy in a bowling alley, no international tho', just burgers. At Roche bought ticket £6.20 and book, probably already have it! No sign of rods crossing, then, at two largest buildings left found N-S leyline. Dropped a rod, retraced my steps, found. Excellent feeling about the place. Started in 12th century then rejigged later by Capability Brown. Well laid out. Could feel as though some stone had not been moved. Nice water moat...had been there as a source for the monks.."Roche Abbey, founded in 1147 as a monastery of the Cistercian order, is most notable for the remains of its early Gothic church and for its early 13th-century great gatehouse. At its peak, about 1175, Roche had about 50 monks and 100 lay brothers and servants. The monastery was suppressed in 1538 – an event recorded in remarkable detail by a local clergyman – and many of the buildings were dismantled. Two hundred years later the ruins became the centrepiece of a designed landscape created in the 1770s by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown for the Earls of Scarbrough".