Twenty miles north of Leeds. The second oldest city in England. Stands on the River Ure. The Cathedral has a Saxon crypt and fine Early English West Front. Fine Georgian Town Hall and many historic buildings. Local museum and one on policing and punishment in an old prison. Nearby Fountains Abbey on the edge of Studley Royal, a place of temples and waterfalls, has an almost perfect nave and vaulted cloisters 300 feet long.