Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for RIPLEY

RIPLEY, a village and a township in Knaresborough district, and a parish partly also in Pateley-Bridge district, w. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Nidd, near the Nidd Valley railway, 5 miles W N W of Knaresborough; was once a market-town; became ingreat measure ruinous, and was mainly rebuilt about 1829; consists of one wide street, of very pleasing appearance: and has a post-office‡ under Leeds, a railway station, a town hall built in 1841, a literary institution, and fairs on Easter Monday and 25 Aug. The township comprises 1,836 acres. Real property, £3, 163. Pop., 330. Houses, 57. The parish contains also the townships of Killinghall and Clint, and comprises 6, 836 acres. Real property, £9, 985. Pop. in 1851, 1, 286; in 1861, 1, 558. Houses, 308. The property is much subdivided., The manor of Ripley, with Ripley Castle, belongs to the Rev. H. J. Ingilby; and the manors of Killinghall and Clint belong to the Duke of Devonshire. Ripley Castlewas erected in 1555, by Sir W. Ingilby; gave lodgingfor a night to Oliver Cromwell, after the battle of Marston-Moor; and is now a spacious and handsome mansion, retaining only the great tower and the lodge of its original fortifications. The land is noted for the cultivation of liquorice. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £640.* Patron, the Rev. H. J. Ingilby. The church is old but good; consists of nave, aisles, tran-sept, and chancel, with porches and embattled tower; has memorial windows, put up in 1862, to the late Sir W. A. Ingilby, Bart.; and contains a number of oldmonuments of the Ingilby family. There are a Wesleyan chapel, two endowed schools with £206 and £40 a year, and charities £52. The alchemist Ripley and Arch-bishop Pullen were natives.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a village and a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Ripley

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