The YHA – answers to some questions before you start!

1 The Youth Hostelling Association
2 It provides cheap accommodation for people who want to stay in the countryside. When it was set up its declared aim was:
"To help all, especially young people of limited means, to a greater knowledge, love and care of the countryside, and appreciation of the cultural values of towns and cities, particularly by providing Youth Hostels or other accommodation for them in their travels, and thus to promote their health, recreation and education."
"We are committed to building bridges between town and country, and contributing to international understanding….."
3 In Yorkshire, on the North Sea, so on the east coast of England.
4 b – In 657AD by the Saxon King Oswy of Northumbria.
5 It is where monks and nuns lived until the abbey was attacked by Vikings in 867, after which it was abandoned until 1078 when it was re-founded.
6 Henry VIII (= Henry the Eighth) in 1540, in the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when churches and linked buildings were destroyed. Henry VIII broke with the church of Rome and established the Church of England, the Anglican Church which is the principal Protestant church in England.
The verb dissolve is used on occasions to end an official organization or a legal arrangement eg a marriage – their marriage was dissolved.
Dissolution meaning the formal ending of an official organization or a legal arrangement; we witness the dissolution of parliament before every election, for instance.
7 They fell into ruins. Stones were removed for buildings elsewhere, and the ruins remain a prominent landmark for sailors.

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