Ribston Hall, English country house in Great Ribston with Walshford, England
Ribston Hall is an English country house in Great Ribston with Walshford, North Yorkshire, with a long northeast-facing front built across two stories. An attached chapel forms part of the structure and still contains stonework dating back to the 13th century.
The land was granted to the Knights Templar in 1217 and later passed to the Knights Hospitaller in the early 14th century. Sir Henry Goodricke built the current house in 1674, and it has remained the main structure on the estate ever since.
The estate served as a seat of the Goodricke family and became a statement of landowner status during the late 1600s. Today the layout of the house and grounds still shows how the wealthy lived and organized their properties.
The estate includes a kitchen garden, pleasure gardens, and parkland that visitors can walk through at their own pace. Visiting outside the busiest seasons gives a calmer experience and more time to take in the different parts of the grounds.
The Ribston Pippin apple variety is said to have grown from a seed brought from France in the early 18th century and planted on these grounds. That apple later became one of the parent varieties of the Cox's Orange Pippin, now one of the most grown apples in the world.
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