Visitor attractions and information - Ripon
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 Ripon Racecourse (the Garden Racecourse )Tel:
01765 602156 For more than 300 years Ripon has hosted some of
the most exciting, most prestigious and most enjoyable racing
in the country. www.ripon-races.co.uk. About 2 miles west of Ripon. |
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Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Wilfrid, Ripon Cathedral,
Minster Road, RIPON HG4 1QS Ripon Cathedral is one of the oldest
and most beautiful cathedrals in Britain. The Crypt of St Wilfrid
(AD 672) is witness to over 1,300 years of continuous worship.
Tel: 01765 603462 In the
centre of Ripon. |
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Ripon Museum Trust, The Workhouse Museum, Sharow
View, Allhallowgate, Ripon HG4 1LE. Tel: 01765 690799 Visit the
Law and Order Museums, explore their collections and exhibitions
and read the case studies that together tell the story of law
and order in Yorkshire. The museums provide an insight into the
harsh conditions endured not so many years ago. Each is housed
within its own historic building. www.riponmuseums.co.uk. In the centre of Ripon. |
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 Fountains
Abbey & Studley Royal Water Garden, Ripon Nr Harrogate, North
Yorkshire HG4 3DY Tel: 01765 608888. A National Trust property
(charges apply) of outstanding historic and aesthetic importance.
Cistercian abbey, Georgian water garden and medieval deer park.
World Heritage Site. National Trust. Charges
apply. (Photo © NTPL / Andrew Butler). www.fountainsabbey.org.uk.
About 4 miles west of
Ripon. |
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Newby Hall & Gardens, Ripon, North Yorkshire
HG4 5AE. Tel: 0845 4504068. Newby Hall is one of Britain’s
finest Adam Houses and an exceptional example of 18th century
interior decoration. The 25 acres of award-winning gardens are
full of rare and beautiful plants, with the famous double herbaceous
borders forming the main axis.
www.newbyhall.co.uk. About 4 miles east of Ripon. |
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Ripon lies in Yorkshire, the largest of all England's
counties. In the northwest of the county lies the Yorkshire Dales
National Park, a lovely patchwork of limestone hills, gentle
valleys and the high peaks of Whernside, Pen-y-ghent and Ingleborough.
The classical Yorkshire Dales spread to the north from the market
and spa towns of Settle, Skipton, Ilkley and Harrogate in North
Yorkshire, with most of the larger southern dales such as Ribblesdale,
Malhamdale and Airedale, Wharfedale and Nidderdale running roughly
parallel from north to south, and the more northerly dales including
Wensleydale, Swaledale and Teesdale running generally from west
to east. The North York Moors is the county's other national
park, with bleak upland moors and a magnificent rugged coastline.
To the southeast of the region lie the Yorkshire Wolds, formed
from chalk hills that arc from the Humber estuary west of Kingston
upon Hull up to the North Sea coast between Bridlington and Scarborough.
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