Ripley, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Ripley is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Killinghall, Clint, and Burnt Yates.
Alternative names:
Parish church: All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1560
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1637
Nonconformists include: Society of Friends/Quaker and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Bilton with Harrogate
- Markington
- South Stainley
- Bishop Thornton
- Nidd
- Hartwith cum Winsley
- Haverah Park
- Hampsthwaite
- Pannal
- Low Harrogate
- Brearton
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
RIPLEY (All Saints), a parish, and formerly a market-town, partly in the Upper, but chiefly in the Lower, division of the wapentake of Claro, W. riding of York; containing, with the townships of Clint and Killinghall, 1235 inhabitants, of whom 283 are in Ripley township, 23 miles (W. by N.) from York.
This place was anciently the property of the Ripley family, by marriage with whose heiress, about the latter part of the fourteenth century, it was conveyed to Sir Thomas Ingilby, whose descendant, William, was created a baronet in 1642: the title, becoming extinct, was revived in 1781, and has passed to Sir William Amcots Ingilby, the present owner of the estate.
During the parliamentary war, Ripley Castle was visited after the battle of Marston-Moor by Oliver Cromwell, who passed one night here; it was originally built in 1555, and having been much enlarged and improved during the present century, is a handsome castellated mansion, finely situated in a demesne tastefully laid out.
The town or village, which is on the road from Leeds to Newcastle, occupies rising ground, about half a mile north from the river Nidd, and consists of one broad street; the old houses have been taken down, and replaced by others of stone, at the expense of Sir W. A. Ingilby. Fairs are held on Easter Monday and Tuesday, and August 26th, principally for horses, sheep, and cattle.
The parish comprises 7260a. 2r. 20p.: the soil about Ripley is good, but rather moory in the township of Clint; the surface is varied, and the higher grounds command some fine views.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £23. 8. 9.; net income, £666; patron, Sir W. A. Ingilby. The tithes of Ripley township have been commuted for £143, and the glebe consists of 57 acres. The church, an ancient and spacious cruciform structure, contains some handsome monuments of the Ingilby family, among which is one to the memory of Sir Thomas de Ingilby, justice of the common pleas in the time of Edward III.; in the churchyard is a curious pedestal of a cross, with eight niches apparently intended for kneeling.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyans, built in 1847.
A free school was established and endowed in 1702, by Mary and Catherine Ingilby; the income is about £120 a year: the school-house was rebuilt in 1830.
The school at Burnt Yates was founded by Admiral Long, in 1760, and endowed with property which, with some small additions subsequently made to it, now produces £200 per annum.
There are also charitable endowments to the amount of about £40 a year, the principal of which are Lord Craven’s and Mrs. Hardy’s.
Near the town is a spring, accounted beneficial for weakness in the eyes.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Registers
Paver’s Marriage Licences
It would appear that a good many licences were never used. So genealogists should exercise a little care in their acceptance of the licenses.
1630 Christopher Cuthbert, Ripley, and Margaret Long, Trinity, Micklegate—either Place. (Not at Trinity.)
Source: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Vol XL for the Year 1908; Edited by John WM. Clay, F.S.A., Vice-President of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society; Printed for the Society 1909.
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Knaresborough
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Honour of Knaresborough, Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries – Boroughbridge
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Boroughbridge
- Poor Law Union: Knaresborough
- Hundred: Claro
- Province: York