Looking over the Half Moon Pond and weir of Studley Royal Water Garden from the Surprise View towards Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire

Looking over the Half Moon Pond and weir of Studley Royal Water Garden from the Surprise View towards Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire. Fountains Abbey, a Cistercian community of monks founded in the twelfth century, forms a picturesque backdrop to the water gardens created by John Aislabie and his son William in the eighteenth century.