Images of .... Spring in Ripley

Ripley, between Harrogate and Ripon in North Yorkshire, is an estate village belonging to Ripley Castle, family seat of the Ingilbys for the past 700 years.  The present village was built in 1825 by the eccentric Sir William Amcotts Ingilby, who modelled it on an estate village he had seen in Alsace-Lorraine.  The original village had had thatched cottages which were in a poor state of repair.  The Castle and church remain much as they were but the rest of the village was rebuilt, to include a cobbled square and hôtel-de-ville style town hall.

Main street, looking towards The Boar's Head Inn, an old coaching inn

A house on the main street

Part of Ripley Castle

Window above a gate at Ripley Castle, with part of the family coats of arms

 

 A stream through the woods

Cowslips (primula veris)

 Fishing in Ripley Castle's ornamental lake