This polygon, which follows the boundary of part of the registered park and garden of Sandbeck and Roche (English Heritage 1999), includes the remains of the Cistercian Abbey and precincts of Roche, exposed by archaeologists from 1857 and 1935 (Rodgers 1996, 115). "[After the Abbey was dissolved] in 1538 there is strong evidence to suggest that much of it was rapidly demolished. For many years it was used as a source of building stone. Buck's engraving of 1725 shows heaps of waste within the chancel and the transept chapels overgrown and beginning to sustain saplings. When Lancelot (Capability) Brown landscaped the site in the 1770s he is said to have taken down further remains. He covered up large areas of the ruins, smoothing over and planting as he went." (from SMR description PRN128 after Rodgers 1996). Brown's landscaping works included the land and quarry remains around the site as well as the valley floor (not included in the 'registered' area) between here and Sandbeck Park. Significant legibility of the ground plan of the Cistercian monastery.