Ripon
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Sep 9, 2026
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The town standeth most by clothing.
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Hull, Pickering, Tadcaster, Boroughbridge, Alburgh, York, Ketterick, Ripon, Richmond.
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End of section one.
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Section two.
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it was not until a d seventy eight to eighty five that the obsession of the romans became definite and that the old celtic civilization came under the spell of roman art roman remains I have previously alluded to the sculptured bronze found at Richborough Castle in Kent, depicting a Roman piper playing on the bagpipe, but it must be borne in mind that the Celts in Britain had the bagpipe a full century before the time of Caesar, and therefore the Romans merely popularised this martial instrument.
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ANGLO-SAXON PIPES Between the years 450 and 580, the Anglo-Saxons made a conquest of England, but the Irish Celts were the founders of Lindisfarne, Ripon, Durham, Lichfield, Tilbury, Dunwich, Burgcastle, Bosham, Malmesbury, Glastonbury, etc.
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We are consequently not surprised to find the bagpipes popular among the Anglo-Saxons, and the instrument continued in vogue all through the wars of the 8th to the 11th century.
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As is well known, the generic term minstrels included bagpipers as well as harpers, though, as has previously been stated, the harp was the more aristocratic instrument.
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It is interesting to add that just as the hornpipe dance comes from the cornpipe or pipcorn, so also the jig dance is derived from the geiger or fiddle.
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PIPE IN CHURCH Whether the idea of the bagpipe in church was borrowed from Ireland or from the continent, certain it is that in medieval England the pipes were employed in connection with church services, especially at processions and outdoor religious ceremonies.
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At Ripon and Beverley there are representations of bagpipes, whilst at Westminster Abbey a bear is depicted playing the pipes, and at St John's Church, Cirencester, a monkey is represented performing on the bagpipes.
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In Boston Parish Church there are 64 misereries, dating from circa 1425, and among the designs are a bear playing on an organ, with another bear as organ blower, supporters, a bear playing a bagpipe, and a bear beating a drum.
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Dimidio, auteo amplius minus.
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it hath one parish church and a chapel of st cytha it standeth much by clothing and is distant six miles from halifax and four miles from chrysostol abbey there is a confluence in this town of three brooks one riseth above boolean hall so that the head is a mile dim from the town and this at the town hath a bridge of one arch another riseth a two mile off having a mill and a bridge of missing word the three riseth four miles of having missing word boolean hall sometime the booleans now it longeth to tempest it standeth a mile missing word bradford beverley beverley is a very large town but i could not perceive that ever it was walled though there be certain gates of stone portcullis for defence in the town be a three parish churches the minster where st john sometime bishop of york lieth and one chapel there is also a house of grey freres and another of black and a house as a commandery of st john's there is a great gut cut from the town to the ripe of hull river whereby pretty vessels come thither there cometh out of the bishop's park westward thereby a little fresh brook to the town to this town long many great and ancient privileges as to a sanctuary the town hath in their commune sealed the figure of a beaver bead calleth the place where beverley is now silvaderorum anglicaderewald instead of the minster there was in old time an abbey of monks and nuns destroyed almost by the danes brithung st john's deacon was some time abbot there and is buried there there is also buried st leeds two miles lower than crystal abbey on ayr river is a pretty market having one parish church reasonably well builded and as large as bradford but not so quick as it the town standeth most by clothing Hull, Pickering, Tadcaster, Boroughbridge, Albra, York, Ketterick, Ripon, Richmond.
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End of section one.
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Section two.
Jeremy LonsdaleHOST
And so inter-town, inter-club cricket was really the highest standard that was played.
Jeremy LonsdaleHOST
And so York would play against Bradford or Leeds, Hovingham, Dalton, Knaresborough, Ripon, some Sheffield sides, although Sheffield was generally regarded as... too strong to play.
Jeremy LonsdaleHOST
And as a result of his performances in these games over a long period of time, in the late 1840s, Letby was selected for sides which went by the name of Yorkshire.
Jeremy LonsdaleHOST
And as Mick has already indicated, Yorkshire County Cricket Club, as we know it now, was established in 1863.
Carl ManchesterNARRATOR
Di medio auteo amplius minus.
Carl ManchesterNARRATOR
watchfelder it hath one parish church and a chapel of st cytha it standeth much by clothing and is distant six miles from halifax and four miles from chrysostol abbey there is a confluence in this town of three brooks one riseth above boolean hall so that the head is a mile dim from the town and this at the town hath a bridge of one arch another riseth a two mile off having a mill and a bridge of missing word the three riseth four miles of having missing word boolean hall sometime the booleans now it longeth to tempest it standeth a mile missing word bradford beverley beverley is a very large town but i could not perceive that ever it was walled though there be certain gates of stone portcullis for defence in the town be a three parish churches the minster where st john sometime bishop of york lieth and one chapel there is also a house of grey freres and another of black and a house as a commandery of st john's there is a great gut cut from the town to the ripe of hull river whereby pretty vessels come thither there cometh out of the bishop's park westward thereby a little fresh brook to the town to this town long many great and ancient privileges as to a sanctuary the town hath in their commune sealed the figure of a beaver bead calleth the place where beverley is now silvaderorum anglicaderewald instead of the minster there was in old time an abbey of monks and nuns destroyed almost by the danes brithung st john's deacon was some time abbot there and is buried there there is also buried st winwildus leeds two miles lower than crystal abbey on ayr river is a pretty market having one parish church reasonably well builded and as large as bradford but not so quick as it the town standeth most by clothing Hull, Pickering, Tadcaster, Boroughbridge, Albra, York, Ketterick, Ripon, Richmond.
Carl ManchesterNARRATOR
End of section one.
Carl ManchesterNARRATOR
Section two.
Richard ShipNARRATOR
Their history is inseparably connected with that of the ruined abbey; for they stood in their present site and afforded a shelter to its founders long before one stone was laid upon another of the stately building.
Richard ShipNARRATOR
Those who passed, in the days of the Saxon king, Ethelbald, through the wolds of Yorkshire, near Skelldale, in their way to Ripon, might see a company of men assembled in a wild and romantic spot watered by a rivulet and surrounded with rocks and woods.
Richard ShipNARRATOR
These men were monks, who, desiring to imitate the extraordinary sanctity of the Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx, had withdrawn from their own monastery of St. Mary's at York; and being sanctioned in their preference by the archbishop, they retired to this desolate and uncultivated spot.
Richard ShipNARRATOR
They had no house to shelter them, nor certainty of provisions to subsist on; but in the depth of the lone valley stood an aged elm, among the ample branches of which they erected a straw roof, and this was their only shelter for some time.
Daisy LyonsNARRATOR
Instead, he became an Anglican priest despite parental opposition, married the daughter of a mill hand despite even greater parental opposition, and spent the rest of his long life as a charismatic preacher, collector of folklore and folk songs, antiquarian and prolific writer publishing some 40 novels and over 100 works of non-fiction today he is best known for the hymn onward christian soldiers his translation of the basque christmas carol gabriel's message and his landmark 1865 study on lycanthropy lysanthropy okay The Book of Werewolves.
Daisy LyonsNARRATOR
Baring Gold moved to Yorkshire after his ordination at Ripon in 1864, becoming the curate of Harbury Bridge in the West Riding.
Daisy LyonsNARRATOR
Big up, West Riding.
Daisy LyonsNARRATOR
There, he and mill worker Grace Taylor fell in love, a match which both families vehemently opposed.
Vanessa WilliamsGUEST
Well, it's always been a dream to work here.
Vanessa WilliamsGUEST
Um, and I, my first, uh, visit h- here to the UK was back when I was, uh, five years old, and my uncle, uh, Earl Williams, was, um, working for the, the US Air Force government, uh, and he was, um, uh, living in Ripon, so, uh, up in, in Yorkshire.
Vanessa WilliamsGUEST
So we, um, as a family, that, one of our favorite photos is our, our passport photo, and then we did a family portrait while we were getting shots, so I have that in my dressing room here in the Dominion.
Vanessa WilliamsGUEST
I've always had an affinity to, to, uh, for all things British, um, but also my, uh, my great-great-grandmother is originally from Wales.
ZhuNARRATOR
A curious fossil with the mark of a cross is plentiful there and goes by the name of St. Cuthbert's beads.
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Other famous teachers were Wilfred of York, who founded the churches of Hexham and Ripon, Boisil, who founded Melrose, and Biskup, who founded Jarrow.
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But perhaps the most celebrated of all was Bede, the venerable Bede who lived at Jarrow and wrote forty-five learned books on all subjects, including music, astronomy, and medicine.
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All the scholars in England flocked to hear his teachings, and he was justly called the father of English learning.
Kay HandNARRATOR
In Mercia were Lichfield, Leicester, Worcester, and Hereford.
Kay HandNARRATOR
In Northumbria were York, Durham, and Ripon.
Kay HandNARRATOR
Each cathedral had its schools and convents.
Kay HandNARRATOR
Christianity became the law of the land and entered largely into all the Saxon codes.
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