An Historical Map of Ripon: Cathedral City and Market Town: 19 (Town & City Historical Maps series)

ISBN 10: 1838071989 ISBN 13: 9781838071981

Publisher: The Historic Towns Trust, 2024

Synopsis

Ripon’s long and involved history as a settlement around a Christian church dates from the 7th century when Wilfrid, later Archbishop of York, founded a church dedicated to St Peter. The crypt of Wilfrid’s church astonishingly survives beneath the magnificent later cathedral. It prospered from being near Fountains Abbey and became a medieval woollen cloth centre. Later it became a centre of non-conformist groups, and a market town, before becoming the cathedral centre of a new diocese. It had the many buildings associated with its local importance; its 19th-century workhouse is the most complete one surviving today. It also housed enormous army camps in both world wars.

The Historical Map of Ripon shows, on a multi-period map, how Ripon developed and includes its vanished buildings and earthworks, and sites of interest as well as those that remain. A comprehensive gazetteer on the map’s reverse, complete with many illustrations, explains how Ripon developed and introduces its buildings and sites of interest.

About this title

About the Author

Mick Stanley is a widely published historian of Ripon and of other Yorkshire towns. Contributors include other local historians and archaeologists with a comprehensive knowledge of the development of the city.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Historic Towns Trust
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1838071989
• ISBN 13: 9781838071981
• Binding: Map
• Number of pages: 2
• Editor: Stanley Mick, Together Ripon