Learning and Education Trips to Ripon Museums
Come to Ripon Museums for a high quality learning experience which stimulates people to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence and develop judgement. We are lucky to have three museums in our group, all important Victorian institutions in their original buildings - a Workhouse, a Prison & Police Station and a Courthouse. Our workshops make the most of this atmospheric environment with dramatic role-play and hands-on activities
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Come and join Simply Ghost Nights on a ghost hunting event at Ripon workhouse Museum as we step back in time and take in the darkened atmosphere of the doom and gloom of the poor unfortunate former residents of the Ripon Workhouse Museum.
Best Attractions and Places to See in Ripon, United Kingdom UK
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Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden
Ripon Cathedral
The Ripon Hornblower
Ripon Racecourse
Talon Falconry
Workhouse Museum
Newby Hall and Gardens
Prison and Police Museum
Druids Temple
Markenfield Hall
Ripon North Yorkshire - Places to Visit in North Yorkshire
Ripon North Yorkshire - Places to Visit in North Yorkshire. We discover the city of Ripon on a Thursday market day, and we take a look at Ripon Cathedral, Ripon Market Square, The Workhouse Museum, Police and Prison Museum, The Courthouse Museum, Ripon Canal, Skell River, the Leper Church and Ripon's independent small shops.
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Places to see in ( Ripon - UK )
Places to see in ( Ripon - UK )
Ripon is a cathedral city in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Ripon is located at the confluence of two tributaries of the River Ure, the Laver and Skell.
Ripon is noted for its main feature, Ripon Cathedral which is architecturally significant, as well as the Ripon Racecourse and other features such as its market. The city itself is just over 1,300 years old. Ripon was originally known as Inhrypum and was founded by Saint Wilfrid during the time of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria, a period during which it enjoyed prominence in terms of religious importance in Great Britain.
Ripon was for a period under Viking control, and later suffered under the Normans. After a brief period of building projects under the Plantagenets, the city of Ripon emerged with a prominent wool and cloth industry. Ripon became well known for its production of spurs during the 16th and 17th centuries, but would later remain largely unaffected by the Industrial Revolution.
Ripon is located 11 miles (18 km) south-west of Thirsk, 16 miles (26 km) south of Northallerton and 12 miles (19 km) north of Harrogate. As well as its racecourse and cathedral, Ripon is a tourist destination because of its close proximity to the UNESCO World Heritage Site which consists of the Studley Royal Park and Fountains Abbey.
The tradition of the Ripon Hornblower has endured since the year 886 and continues on to this day. It originates with the wakeman of Ripon, whose job in the Middle Ages was similar of that to a mayor although he had more responsibilities in the keeping of law and order. Every day at 9:00pm the horn is blown at the four corners of the obelisk in Ripon Market. The horn has become the symbol of the city and represents Ripon on the Harrogate borough coat of arms. There are three museums in Ripon collectively known as the Yorkshire Law and Order Museums; it includes the Courthouse, the Prison and Police and the Workhouse Museums.
In terms of sport, the most noted field of participation is horse racing with the Ripon Racecourse. The sport has a long history in Ripon, with the first recorded meeting on Bondgate Green in 1664, while its current location has been used as a racetrack since 1900. Ripon staged Britain's first race for female riders in 1723.
The city was previously served by Ripon railway station on the Leeds-Northallerton Line that ran between Leeds and Northallerton. By road Ripon is well connected; it is accessible from the north and south via the A1(M) motorway which connects to Ripon by the B6265. The Ripon Canal was proposed by John Smeaton in 1766, to connect the city centre to part of the River Ure.
( Ripon - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Ripon . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Ripon - UK
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Ghost Hunting At Ripon Police & Prison Museum, Yorkshire, England, With Simply Ghost Nights
A brief clip of some paranormal activity on a ghost hunt that was captured on a ghost hunting event at Ripon Police & Prison Museum, with Simply Ghost Nights on the 24th November 2012
Ripon Museums Ghost Walking Tours
Ripon Museums Performance Volunteering
Ouija Board Ripon workhouse Museum, 16th December 2016
A group of ghost hunters make spirit contact via the Ouija board at Ripon Workhouse Museum
Workhouse Diet at Gressenhall Museum
Rachel Duffield is eating the workhouse diet for a week - here she is trying out gruel.
Workhouse Museum
From the mind that brings you outcast.podomatic.com comes a harrowing behind the scenes look at a victorian workhouse museum.
England 2019 Episode 12: Ripon
Ripon is a quiet, attractive town with an impressive gothic cathedral. The cathedral is notable architecturally for its west front, constructed in 1220 in the Early English style. The rood screen with its polychrome statues is late-medieval work. The geometric east window dates to 1286. The choir stalls incorporate intricately carved 15th c. misericords, including one that shows a griffin catching a rabbit, which inspired Lewis Carroll in his writing of Alice in Wonderland (Carroll's father was part of the clergy team here in the 1860s). The wooden hand below the organ dates to 1695 and was actually used to conduct the choir. The cathedral's Saxon crypt is the only remnant of the original stone church built here in 672 AD by Saint Wilfred (see the 5th picture in the photo section at the end of the video).
The town's Workhouse Museum offers a glimpse of the Victorian era justice system. Those who fell on hard times were often assigned to one of these institutions where they received room and board in exchange for their labor. The nicely furnished Administrator's Building in the middle of the workhouse complex was flanked by the men's and women's dormitories on either side. Other parts of the complex included the workhouse kitchen, schoolroom, and vegetable garden.
After that sobering experience, I stopped at a pub for an ale and found the local Morris Dancing club rehearsing in the back room. What fun!
Ripon Museums Ghost Walking Tours 1
The Ripon Ghost Walk
Sat 10th March - Sights & Sounds Special *starts 2.30pm (this walk only)
Thu 29th Mar - Ghost Walk
Thu 12th Apr - Ghost Walk
Thu 26th Apr - ‘Saints & Sinners’ Walk
Fri 18th May - Museums at Night for Kids
Thu 31st May - Ghost Walk
Thu 14th Jun - ‘Saints & Sinners’ Walk
Thu 19th Jul - Ghost Walk
Thu 2nd Aug - Ghost Walk
Thu 16th Aug - Ghost Walk
Thu 30th Aug - Ghost Walk
Thu 20th Sep - 'Saints & Sinners' Walk
Thu 11th Oct - Ghost Walk
Fri 26th Oct - Museums at Night for Kids
Weds 31st Oct - Halloween Special
Thu 22nd Nov - Ghost Walk
Thu 27th Dec - Christmas Ghost Walk
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My family and I thoroughly enjoyed it Being from Ripon, even though we know the stories, the person presenting did a very good job. Thanks again.
Alan Bean, Ripon
The Ripon Ghost Walk is run through Ripon Museums, supported by Discover Ripon and promoted by Yorkshire Trails and Review Ripon as a great thing to do in Ripon. All parties provide their time free of charge with all proceeds donated to the Ripon Museums Trust and funds go to towards general maintenance and in particular the refurbishment of the main block.
Poster/leaflet design and photography by jane@yorkshiretrails
Discover Ripon
Explore the darker side of the historic city of Ripon on this ghost walk, hearing tales of ghouls and ghostly goings on around every corner!
Consumption: Food, Pippa Hale
Pippa Hale's contemporary artwork, Consumption, set in a Workhouse Dining Hall , explores the inmate's experience of food in an 186o's North Yorkshire Workhouse. Commissioned by Ripon Museums 2017.
We Love Ripon
Hunters present #weloveripon, a collaborative video created alongside other small businesses that support the city of Ripon. Ripon is a small cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England. Located near Harrogate, the city is over 1,300 years old and is the third smallest city in England by population. Ripon is a well known tourist destination and is well positioned in North Yorkshire for exploring but for centuries, the city has been a popular residential area with plenty of work and schooling opportunities. In recent years the city has become a thriving independent hub for small local businesses
We worked with some fantastic and energetic local businesses to produce this video. Oliver’s Pantry is one of the most iconic cafes in the city offering a fantastic range of homemade produce served with a smile. Memorable Moments have been in the city for a few years now offering a lovely range of gifts and cards for those special moments. The Little Book shop is not little in knowledge and offer a whole host of different types of literature and if they haven’t got it, they will get it for you.
A beautiful iconic building set just off the town square, is the Workhouse museum, which offers a real life feel for the days gone by and reveals the real history of what it was like, for the not so fortunate back in the 1800s. With a classroom, a working kitchen demonstrating traditional methods of cooking which accompanies the well-tended rear kitchen garden, with traditional planting which would have been tended by the inmates at the time.
The Ripon Racecourse known as “Yorkshires Garden race course” because of its pleasant surroundings, is located just on the edge of Ripon and is well recognised as a very popular meet for local Yorkshire based owners and families.
Ripon is surrounded by beautiful open countryside and the Yorkshire dales are on your doorstep, this thriving city offers everything that both the young and old residents would enjoy.
There are independent retailers offering unusual and unique shopping with quaint traditional public houses, cosy independent restaurant’s offering all kinds of international cuisine for every palette, lively bars, a cinema, swimming pool, leisure centre and of course Ripon City Cathedral. Every Thursday Ripon is home to a very popular and diverse market with every kind of stall possible, from your local veg stall to your new handbag.
So in short why wouldn’t you want to live and work in Ripon City with excellent links to the A1 and A61 for those wishing to travel to Leeds, York and Newcastle. Take a look at #weloveripon which shows why Ripon is such a fabulous place to live and work, we look forward to meeting you very soon.
Jez Describing The Franks Box, At Ripon Workhouse Museum 9th August 2014
Jez describing how a piece of ghost hunting equipment the Franks Box works at Ripon Workhouse Museum, during the welcome meeting on the 9th August 2014
EVP Captured At Ripon Workhouse Museum
A fantastic EVP which was heard by one of our guests wearing sound enhancers too?
What do you hear in a whispery voice just after the lady speaks and again about 7 seconds later?
Ghost Hunting Ripon Workhouse Museum, With Simply Ghost Nights, 21st September 2013
A slideshow of Simply Ghost Nights ghost hunting event at Ripon Workhouse Museum 21st September 2013
Ouija Board At Ripon Workhouse Museum, 16th January 2017
Ghost hunters make ghostly contact with a spirit at The Ripon Workhouse Museum on the 16th January 2017, via the Ouija board.
The Workhouse Child
A heartrending look at child slavery from Singer Songwriter Nemo James. From the album The Workhouse Child