The Ripley Castle Estate

 

Location: North Yorkshire

 

Company Description

 

Ripley is a fantastic place in which to hold a high profile corporate event. The setting is stunning, the service is friendly and efficient, and the catering is exceptional.

 

Ripley also makes an excellent setting for low-profile events: those moments when you just want to get the team together for sales and marketing meetings, teambuilding or training sessions, board meetings or discussions away from the workplace. Ripley offers privacy and discretion in the relaxed surroundings of an ancient and beautiful deer park, seventeen acres of lake and magnificent walled gardens and pleasure grounds.

 

The first-class comfort of The Boar's Head Hotel (25 rooms, all double or twin) is a two minute stroll from the front door of the castle, ideal for the small to medium residential event when you want to combine serious business with good food and relaxed enjoyment. The Boar's Head is part of the Ripley Castle Estate so everything can be billed on one invoice for ease of accounting.

 

Product & Services we offer

 

·          Castle & Gardens

·          Education

·          Hotel

·          Conferences

 

Type of Events we support

 

·          Weddings

·          Conferences

·          Dining & Celebrations

 

Number of Bedrooms: 25

 

Description of Bedrooms

 

Lady Ingilby has a fine eye for style and detail which explains why each of the twenty five luxury bedrooms is individually decorated and furnished and contains the sort of trimmings you would expect at a hotel of this quality. Friends of the Ingilbys invited to stay at the Castle have been known to book themselves in at the Boar's Head rather than spend the night at Castle : the hotel is much more comfortable! Toy boats have been provided in each bathroom so all guests are able to push the boat out during their stay.

 

Cuisine

 

Lady Ingilby's pen is mightier than the sword and all new seasonal menus are heralded by a bombardment of food tastings as wave after wave of new ideas are forwarded for approval.

 

The menus in both the Restaurant and the Bistro are inspirational and we believe in serving meals not sculptures on a plate. You will never be bored when dining at the Boar's Head as the menus change seasonally to capture the essence of each season.

 

The Wine list shared by both the Restaurant and the Bistro is personally put together by Sir Thomas Ingilby who enthusiastically spends months finding the right wines and making sure he tastes them all!

 

Traditionally brewed local ales and an invasion of Highland and Islay Malts ensure that whatever your tipple your memories of the Boar's Head will always be good if somewhat blurred.

 

Capacity of Meeting Rooms

 

Room Name
Morning Room	-	20	-	30	70	66	8.3x7.0	-
Library	-	20	-	30	70	44	9.5x5.8	-
Dining Room	-	N/A	-	16	N/A	16	7.1x6.2	-
Map Room	-	5	-	15	18	15	5.7x4.3	-
Long Gallery	-	60	-	64	150	120	19x6.5	-
Amcotts Room	-	45	-	42	120	80	16.5x6.5	-

 

Address

 

The Ripley Castle Estate
Harrogate
North Yorkshire
HG3 3AY

 

Additional Services

 

Outdoor Activities

Ripley Castle's undulating parkland makes it the ideal venue for so many outdoor activities, and you couldn't wish for a finer setting or backcloth, with the castle reflected in the water of the lower lake and the deer grazing under the majestic oak and beech. The list of activities available for corporate or private groups to choose from includes clay pigeon shooting, archery, four-wheel drive vehicle courses, quad bikes and one-man hovercraft. The day starts with coffee and bacon butties at the castle on arrival, lunch is also served in the castle, and the final prizegiving is conducted over a very civilised cup of tea.

 

Concerts, Shows, and Classic Car Rallies

There can be few lovelier settings for any event than the natural amphitheatres in Ripley's 120 acre park.

 

The show field pastures slope gradually down to the lower lake, and Ripley Castle rises majestically above the water's edge to the south and east. The whole area is ring-fenced by park wall and deer fencing, and access and egress can be gained from the A61 or B6165. There is a good stone road network on the site and there is ample room for car parking: the ground is very free-draining. The BBC Homes and Antiques Grand Summer Fair is held here each June and attracts nine thousand people (a high percentage of whom are ABC1 with a high disposable income) over four days. This part of Yorkshire isn't known as 'The Golden Triangle' for nothing!

 

The Last Night of the Proms concert is also held here every July and it regularly attracts 5,000-6,000 people, and we have also enjoyed great success over the years with Sealed Knot Civil War Battles, International Scout Camps, Classic Car Rallies, Carriage Driving Trials, Family Fun Days, Charity Balls, Dramatic Productions and Numerous Shows and Fairs.