Christmas events in Settle 2018

Freezing rain layered ice onto the trees

Churches Together Singing at the Coop - Tuesday a week before Christmas

Limestone View Carol Singing on the Thursday Evening

Scottish Dancers Meal

Age UK Friday Club Christmas Meal

Fountains Abbey from Ripon Cathedral Pilgrimage Boxing Day 2018

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Fountains Abbey - Boxing Day Pilgrimage 2011

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  Fountains Abbey Pilgrimage - Fungi, Flowers, Ferns; Feathery and Furry Friends 2011

The walk started at 9.30am on Boxing Day - St Stephens Day - with holy communion in the choir stalls of the Cathedral. A man showed me the carvings at the choir stall seats - of a rabbit in a hole which was supposed to have inspired Lewis Caroll when he came here, and another of pigs playing with a ball made of a pigs bladder,

We walked to Fountains and finished with a short service in the Abbey - see this short video I took of O come all ye faithful.

Assembling outside the cathedral at 10.15

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The Bishop, Rt Revd Dr Hilary-Ann Hartley is to lead the walk

Settling off - See Frankie the white dog.

Frankie

Coming into Studley village

Walking up the drive from Studley - see the cathedral in the background

In the Grounds of Fountains Abbey

Outside the cellarium

This year the mulled wine supplied by National Trust Volunteers had been replaced by outside-caterers who also provided burgers and chips. So I bought a packet of chips and put the hot mulled wine in my mug

Returning clutching my mulled wine

I returned by the five (seven?) bridges walk.
As you near Studley there is a view of the cathedral again.

And back to Ripon.

Happy New Year everyone!

Fountains Abbey - Boxing Day Pilgrimage 2011

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  Fountains Abbey Pilgrimage - Fungi, Flowers, Ferns; Feathery and Furry Friends 2011