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Boar's Head Hotel & Ripley Castle

Boar's Head Hotel & Ripley Castle
Ripley Castle Estate
Ripley
Harrogate
North Yorkshire
HG3 3AY
North East England
Type of Accommodation: Hotel
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The Boar's Head was originally the Star Inn, a Coaching Inn during the 19th Century which welcomed travellers on the Leeds-Edinburgh Coach each weekday, and the locals on the weekend. All that changed when Sir William Ingilby, a strict religious man who strongly disapproved of people crossing the square from Church to the bar on Sunday mornings, ordered that the Inn remain closed on the Sabbath. The landlord packed his bags and left and for seventy years the Village of Ripley remained 'dry'. Seventy years later, Sir William's grandson, Sir Thomas, himself fond of a glass of malt, thought differently, and The Boar's Head, situated in one of the most beautiful and historic villages in England, now proudly occupies the building once known as the Star Inn. Overlooking the cobbled market square, church and village stocks, the hotel offers excellent accommodations with welcoming charm, a first-class restaurant, drawing rooms and bistro bar. Many of the paintings and furnishings around the hotel are from Ripley Castle, and the huge portrait of the eccentric Sir William Amcotts Ingilby, who completely rebuilt Ripley in the 1830's, having been impressed by a similar model estate in Alsace-Lorraine, hangs with suitable prominence over the stairs. Twenty-five luxury bedrooms, many in the delightful Courtyard, are individually decorated and furnished, most with king-size beds, and contain the sort of trimmings that you would expect from a hotel of this quality.