Ripley Castle

Ripley Castle, built in 1345, is full of armour, priests holes that are hiding lots of great histrorical things to view. There are also stunning gardens and a park that is deer the smalls will love and a sizable tropical plant collection to saunter through. Beautiful!Ripley Castle Guides have tailor-made a tour particularly for children. The kids is introduced to 26 generations of fascinating Ingilby genealogy and family history which will range from the boar that is wild that nearly killed King Edward III, religious persecution, the Gunpowder Plot, Oliver Cromwell being kept prisoner at gunpoint in the Library and exactly about eccentric ancestors and many ghost stories!These tours are entertaining, engaging and enjoyable and available at 11:45 and 13:45 every Saturday and Sunday between 23rd March and 3rd November and daily throughout the school holidays (excluding February half term and also the Christmas time break).The tour takes approx 45 mins as they are especially geared for young ones aged 5 to 16 years making use of their family. Kiddies should be combined with a grownup.