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St Mary's Abbey Ruins, Museum Gardens

Yorkshire And The Humber

York

St Mary's Abbey Ruins, Museum Gardens

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St Mary's Abbey Ruins, Museum Gardens

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Location: York, Yorkshire And The Humber, England, United Kingdom

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Timber 👣 & Shakespeare 🐾

August 19, 2019

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The gardens, donated by the British royal family to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society in 1828, are located on part of the former site of St. Mary's Abbey. The society acquired …

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Ben

December 13, 2020

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Hold onto your nuts!! Plenty of tame(ish) squirrels that you can feed.

The gardens are registered botanical gardens, not a city park, which require high levels of maintenance and security because of the plants and trees, Scheduled Monuments and Listed buildings within them.

Chris 🚵🏽‍♀️⛷️🥾

December 16, 2019

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Timber described the highlight in great detail. The Museum Gardens are less of a horticultural, but a historical highlight. The ruins of St. Mary's Abbey are well worth seeing. Cute: The cute, almost hand-tame gray squirrels that some people can feed.

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