Lindrick with Studley Royal and Fountains, Yorkshire Genealogy

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Parish History
LINDRICK, an extra-parochial liberty, in the Lower division of the wapentake of Claro, W. riding of York, 2¾ miles (W. by S.) from Ripon; containing 17 inhabitants. It comprises 800 acres, divided into two wellcultivated farms. The tithes have been commuted for £8. 10., payable to the Dean and Chapter of Ripon.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 87-95. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51108 Date accessed: 20 August 2011.>

STUDLEY-ROYAL, a township, in the parish of Ripon, Lower division of the wapentake of Claro, W. riding of York, 2½ miles (W. S. W.) from Ripon; containing 50 inhabitants. The township comprises by computation 590 acres of rich and fertile land, lying wholly within the inclosure of Studley Park. It was for some time the seat of the Aislabie family, of whom William, who married Elizabeth, daughter of the Earl of Exeter, represented the borough of Ripon in parliament for more than sixty years of the 18th century. The mansion is an elegant and spacious structure in the Grecian style, consisting of a centre and two wings, with a stately portico of four lofty Corinthian columns supporting an enriched entablature and cornice, surmounted by a pediment; it contains many handsome apartments, and a valuable collection of paintings by the best masters. The park comprises an area of 650 acres, partly in the township of Markington with Wallerthwaite, and is well stocked with deer; the surface is beautifully undulated, and watered by the Skell rivulet, which forms some picturesque cascades. In the southern portion of the park, in a deep vale, through which the Skell pursues its course, are the venerable remains of Fountains Abbey. This abbey was established for brethren of the Cistercian order by thirteen Benedictine monks of St. Mary's near York, who, leaving their house for the purpose of observing a more strict discipline, in 1132 obtained from Thurstan, Archbishop of York, a grant of land here. The institution was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, and flourished till the general suppression, when its revenue was returned at £1173. 0. 7. The site and demesne were granted in the 32nd of Henry VIII. to Sir Richard Gresham, and in 1767 were purchased by William Aislabie, Esq., for £18,000. The remains of this once magnificent structure are beautifully situated, and occupy an area of nearly two acres within the township of Markington with Wallerthwaite. They are partly Norman and partly in the early English style, and consist chiefly of the church with its lofty tower, part of the cloisters, the chapter-house, refectory, dormitory, and other portions of the conventual buildings, together forming one of the most extensive and interesting specimens of monastic remains in England. Near the ruin is Fountains Hall, a large mansion in the Elizabethan style, formerly the seat of the Messenger family, proprietors of the abbey lands.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 252-256. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51316 Date accessed: 20 August 2011.

FOUNTAIN'S-EARTH, a township, in the chapelry of Middlesmoor, parish of Kirkby-Malzeard, union of Pateley-Bridge, Lower division of the wapentake of Claro, W. riding of York, 3¾ miles (S. W. by W.) from Ripon; containing 435 inhabitants. The township comprises 6833 acres, of which 2312 are meadow and pasture, 311 arable, 210 wood, and about 4000 common or moorland; the surface is varied, the scenery in some parts picturesque and beautiful. The river Nidd has its source near one extremity of the township; it enters above the hamlet of Lofthouse through an arched fissure, called the Goydon Pot-Hole, into a huge rock of limestone, and pursues a subterranean course of more than two miles. Coal and lead mines have been wrought, and copperas was obtained; but at present no works are carried on. The vicarial tithes have been commuted for £38. 14., and the impropriate for £37. 10., payable to Trinity College, Cambridge. There is a place of worship for dissenters; and at Lofthouse is a grammar school, endowed by John Lazenby, in 1734, with land now let for £27 per annum. At a place called Helks, in the township, are two kinds of tumuli; and traces of an encampment, and also Druidical remains, are visible

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 255-259. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50970 Date accessed: 20 August 2011.

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