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Extract from the Ripon Travel Guides:
The unassuming market town of
RIPON
, eleven miles north of Harrogate, only really diverts by virtue of its relatively small but vital
Cathedral
(daily 8am-6.30pm; 2 donation requested), which can trace its ancestry back to its foundation by St Wilfrid in 672; the original crypt is still extant below the central tower. Despite a rather plain exterior, there's plenty that pleases here, from the subtle, twin-towered, thirteenth-century west front to the choir's misericords, full of painted figures of miserable clergymen, executed by the same team that carved the impressive stalls at Beverley. The town's other focus is i...
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