It is usually a well-liked marriage ceremony venue, with actions accessible for company together with zorbing and archery.

In keeping with the Ripley Property web site, it has been within the Ingilby household for 26 generations, with their historical past being described as considered one of “political, navy, spiritual and social turbulence, of plague and persecution, of renaissance, enlightenment and industrial revolution”.

Sir Thomas Ingilby, who lived between 1290 and 1352, married heiress Edeline Thwenge in 1308/9 and bought the Ripley Fort property as her dowry.

His son Thomas saved King Edward III’s life when he was gored by a boar and was knighted.

James I stayed within the fortress in 1603 however by 1605 members of the Ingilby household had been a part of the Gunpowder Plot to kill him.

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