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Summary: The Abbey Trail is a long distance footpath which crosses beautiful Yorkshire countryside while visiting some of the historic counties greatest abbeys. It links seven of these historic buildings, namely Kirkstall, Fountains, Byland, Rievaulx, Lastingham, Rosedale and Whitby. In essence the Abbey Trail is a great long distance path with an ecclesiastical and historical theme. Apart from the abbeys the walk which begins in Leeds and which crosses the Vales of York and Mowbray and the North York Moors also visits Guiseley, Otley, Pateley Bridge, Ripon, Thirsk, Kilburn, Helmsley, Gillamoor, Hutton-le-Hole, Glaisdale and Egton Bridge before finishing in Whitby.