GENUKI: Ripon

The Ancient Parish of RIPON

[Transcribed information mainly 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
Heyshaw
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.

Charities

The Benefaction to Sharow CofE School in St. John's Church, Sharow.
The Benefaction to the Church in St. John's Church, Sharow.

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).

Church History

A transcription of the Pateley Bridge Congregational Church History
A transcription of the Ripon Congregational Church History
Transcript of the entry for Ripon in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
Transcript of the entry for Ripon Holy Trinity in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
Transcript of the entry for Aldfield with Studley in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
Transcript of the entry for Bishop Monkton in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
Transcript of the entry for Bishop Thornton in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
Transcript of the entry for Ingarthorpe in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
Transcript of the entry for Pateley Bridge in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
Transcript of the entry for Sawley in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
Transcript of the entry for Sharrow in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
Transcript of the entry for Skelton in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
Transcript of the entry for Slemingford cum Stainley in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
Transcript of the entry for Winkesley with Grantley in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
The the notice on the tower door at St. John's Church ruin, Bishop Thornton.
The History of the Chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, Ripon.
The History of the Chapel of the Maison de Dieu Hospital, Ripon.

Church Records

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 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 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

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.

Directories

Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory and Gazetteer, Vol I, West Riding.
Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Pigot's 1829 Directory, Yorkshire section.
Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.
Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the White's 1837 Gazetteer, History and Directory, of the West Riding.

Gazetteers

There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1829 Directory, Yorkshire section.
There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.
There is further information about this parish from the White's 1837 Gazetteer, History and Directory, of the West Riding.
There is further information about this parish from the National Gazetteer 1868, Yorkshire extracts.
There is further information about this parish from the Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, Yorkshire extracts.
There is further information about this parish from the Stephen Whatley's Gazetteer 1750, Yorkshire extracts.

History

Here are photographs of Fountains Abbey:
- A photograph of the Abbey ruins in daylight.
A transcription of the Pateley Bridge Congregational Church History
A transcription of the Ripon Congregational Church History

Maps

For a detailed map of this parish see this parish boundaries map.
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.

Memorial Inscriptions

The War Memorial Plaques in St. Cuthbert and St. Oswald's Church, Winksley.
The World War I Memorial Plaque in St. John's Church, Sharow.
The World War I and II Memorial Plaque in St. Mary's Church, Studley Roger.
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
- (SE312722) Little Studley
- (SE307725) Ure Bank
- (SE149678) Wath
- (SE194644) Smelthouses

Taxation

A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.

Voting Registers

A list of the Pateley Bridge electors in 1835, indexed by Roy Stockdill.

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