Rievaulx Abbey Cafe

Ticket price: Join the English Heritage and ticket entry is free! Parking: Plenty and the drive there is beautiful, Staff: All amazing really friendly and approachable, The place itself: beautiful and well looked after, Dog friendly, has picnic tables and onsite cafe. Gift shop: loads of wonderful trinkets purchased ourselves some lovely mead! Not sure if disabled friendly, the shop and the path leading up to the abbey is accessible, think there are steps that prevent access through the but not 100% sure.

This place is amazing and so well worth the drive. The drive itself was so beautiful with very narrow and winding roads, but then you come around a corner, and there it is in all its glory. It's so unreal that it actually reminds me of something you see in Lord of the Rings. I would suggest using Greg the tour guide we used, as he was very knowledgeable and even had an extra large umbrella for all of us to share when the rain started to fall. Very considerate of him. The staff and everyone in the concession area were so friendly and welcoming. Thanks for a great visit.

The route to the village from York can be renamed therapy route. It was such a scenic and dotted with cute villages all along the way. The village is quaint, green and not invaded by tourists yet. The village has a free parking area that accepts only donation. Walk around the village and you will find yourself transported to a different world. Lots of fowls flying around. Best time to go - Just after a mild rain in spring, it brings out the colors. ( haven't tried Autumn yet).

This is a 5 star place to visit but loses a star due to the insanity of the suspension, tracking wrecking potholes in the car park. Sorry to the trust but sort out that car park access before someone wrecks themselves and their vehicles, imagine a cyclist or someone with walking difficulties, think you get the point here Lovely site to visit, nice little cafe clean and very tidy, we stayed for coffee and cake There is a little museum on site up to the right of the Abbey with lots of history of the place in it It once must have been such a building in its heyday and thanks to English Heritage for keeping these places for us to enjoy and soak up the atmosphere of what was once something spectacular As for that carpark.......

A nice place to visit for a few hours tucked away in the North Yorkshire Moors. A huge ruin with tiny museum and exhibition space. The audio guide was really helpful and the museum was small but interesting. I think a few more seats would not go amiss, perhaps in a sheltered position for those ‘rare’ Yorkshire days when there is rain. A few more info boards illustrating daily life would have been interesting - the bus load of kids who were visited at the same time were fascinated with what a communal loo for 30 people looked like! An excellent shop and nice tea shop too!

A beautiful place to visit, even on a rainy and foggy day. Greg gave us a lovely overview of the abbey’s history seen as it was quiet, which we really appreciated. Very informative. Highly recommend visiting at opening time in the morning (10am in October) as there were only a few other visitors at that time. The little museum was an excellent visit too!

Rievaulx Abby is definitely one of the best English heritages sites we have visited so far, the site is massive. We spent hours there looking around its located next to the river and a beautiful forest. The site has a very well laid out museum,cafe with outside sitting looking over the site. It’s packed full of historical relics highly recommend doing the audio tour we will definitely be visiting again.