Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Ripley. You may be able to find further references to Ripley in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ripley	small market town	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Ripley.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Burnt Yates	village	Bartholomew
BURNT-YATES	a hamlet	Imperial
Clint	township	Bartholomew
CLINT	a township	Imperial
Killinghall	township	Bartholomew
KILLINGHALL	a village and a township	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Ripley within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	3
Charles Wesley	May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Clint	0	2
Killinghall	0	2
Nidd	1	5
South Stainley	0	3
Claro	0	2
Low Harrogate	0	1
Birstwith	0	2
Brearton	0	2
Bilton	0	3
Bishop Thornton	0	2
Scotton	0	2
Felliscliffe	0	2
Harrogate	14	2
Haverah Park	0	2
Starbeck	0	2
Pannal	0	2
Hartwith	0	2
Markington	0	3
Ingerthorpe	0	1
Conyngham House	0	2