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The Ancient Parish of RIPON

[Transcribed information from the early 1820s]

"RIPON, a market and parish-town, in the lower-division of Claro, liberty of Ripon; 6 miles from Boroughbridge, 7 from Ripley, 10 from Masham and Oak Tree Inn, Leeming Lane, 11 from Harrogate and Thirsk, 12 from Knaresborough, 13 from Bedale, 17 from Northallerton, 17¾ from Hopper Lane Inn, 20 from Leyburn and Otley, 43 from York, 212 from London. Market, Thursday. Fairs, Thursday after January 13; May 13 and 14; and first Thursday and Friday in June, for horned cattle, sheep, woollen cloth, &c. first Thursday after August 2; first Thursday in November; and November 23, for horned cattle, &c. Bankers, Old Bank, Messrs, Harrisons and Terrys, draw on Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co. 76, Lombard Street; Ripon and Nidderdale Bank, Messrs. Coates and Co. draw on Messrs. Sir James Esdaile and Co. 21, Lombard Street; Ripon Bank, Messrs. Brittains and Thackwray, draw on Sir Richard Carr Glynn, Bart. and Co. 12, Birchin Lane. Principal Inns, Unicorn, and Black Bull. Pop. 4,563. This Church is both parochial and collegiate, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Wilfrid, and is built in the form of a cross. Patron, the King." (There is further information for Ripon).

Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.

Aismunderby Aldfield Bell Flash House Bellwood Bewerley Birkby Nab Birkley Nab Bishop Monkton Bishop Thornton Bishopside Bishopton Bondgate Braithwaite Breckamoor House Bridge Hewick Bridgehouse Gate Clotherholme Copt Hewick Copt Hewick Lodge Dacre Dacre Banks Dolebank Eavestone Elliott House Fellbeck

Fountains Abbey Fountains Hall Givendale Gowbusk Grantley Grassfield House Greenhow Hill Hard Gate Hardcastle Hewick Bridge High Woods Hob Green Hollin Hall Hungate Ingerthorpe Kill Hill Littlethorpe Lucan House Markington Micklehow Hill Mulwith Newby Hall North Lees North Pasture North Stainley

Nunwick Old Sleningford Pateley Bridge Potgate House Raventofts Hall Risplith Sawley Sharow Shaw Mills Skelding Skelton On Ure Sleningford Straw House Studley Roger Sunley Rains Sutton Sutton Grange Thorpe Lodge Wallerthwaite Westwick Whitcliffe Whitehouses Wilsill Winksley

Cemeteries

• A transcription of all the Monuments, Gravestones and other Sepulchral memorials in Ripon Cathedral and its Burial Ground, maintained by Andrew Richards.

Churches

• Here are photographs of Churches within the Ancient Parish of Ripon:
  • The Churches in the city of Ripon.
  • The Church of England churches in the Ancient parish of Ripon.
  • The Churches of other Denominations in the Ancient parish of Ripon.
  • In addition, Phil Draper has some photographs and historical and architectural information on his web page for the Ripon Churches of Holy Trinity and St. Wilfrid's (the latter is a Roman Catholic church).
• The following Churches have their own websites:
  • The Cathedral, Ripon
  • Holy Trinity Church, Ripon
  • The Zion Evangelical Baptist Church, Ripon
  • St. John's Church, Sharow
  • St. John's Church, Sharow.

Church Records

• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Aldfield.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Bishop Thornton.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Pateley Bridge.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Ripon Holy Trinity.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Ripon.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Sawley.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Sharow.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Skelton cum Newby.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Winksley.

Description and Travel

• Ripon.org
• Malcolm Street has set up a web-site for Greenhow Hill giving information on some of the village families and the Lead Mining in the area etc. This includes a condensed version of the book "T'ill an' T'Oade Uns Upuv Greenho'" by Harald Bruff, 1920.
• Garry Stockdill's Yorksview website contains a description and photographs of:
  • Ripon.
  • Pateley Bridge.
  • Fountains Abbey.
• Fountains Abbey (on the Yorkshire tour.co.uk site)
• Ripon (on the Yorkshire tour.co.uk site)

Directories

• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Baines's Directory and Gazetteer Directory of 1822.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Pigot's Directory of 1829.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Pigot's Directory of 1834.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in White's Directory of 1837.

Gazetteers

• There is further information about this parish from Pigot's 1829 Directory Yorkshire section.
• There is further information about this parish from Pigot's 1834 Directory Yorkshire section.
• There is further information about this parish from White's 1837 Gazetteer, History and Directory of the West Riding.
• There is further information about this parish from National Gazetteer 1868 Yorkshire extracts.

History

• Here are photographs of Fountains Abbey:
  • A photograph of the Abbey ruins in daylight.
  • photographs available for free download from the freefoto.com website.

Maps

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• For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
• For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
• Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
• View maps of Ripon and places within the boundaries of its ancient parish.

Memorial Inscriptions

• A transcription of the War Memorial Plaques in St. Cuthbert and St. Oswald's Church, Winksley.
• A transcription of the 1914-18 and 1939-45 War Memorial in St. John's Churchyard, Bishop Monkton

Names (Geographical)

• The following places are within the boundaries of this (ancient) parish, but I have no further information on them other than the Ordnance Survey Landranger Grid reference shown:
  • (SE312689) Belwood Hall
  • (SE156652) Bridgehouse Gate
  • (SE312722) Little Studley
  • (SE307725) Ure Bank
  • (SE149678) Wath
  • (SE194644) Smelthouses

Societies

• This parish is covered by the following Society:
  • Ripon Historical Society & District FHG