Great Ribston Hall, Knaresborough, Yorkshire. The Goodrick Yorkshire Family Seat for almost three hundred years.

This house was erected by Sir John Goodricke, and the date,1647, is over the entrance door on his Coat of Arms. The building, which remains practically unaltered, is an imposing structure with a long Renaissance facade. The main front was flanked by two small colonnades which have since disappeared; the arrangement of the roofs is also different. The Chapel of St. Andrew, attached to the hall, was just outside the garden wall. For so large a house the garden appears small, though there was a large deer park. The property was left by  Sir Harry James Goodricke, the seventh and last Baronet, to live at Ribston, to Mr. Francis L. Holyoake, who took the Goodricke name in order to inherit the Goodricke fortune, by him the estate was sold in 1836 to Mr. Joseph Dent Dent, in whose family remains the present occupier being Mr&Mrs. Charles Dent. The house is completely privately owned by this family.

 Ribston as seen across the river Nidd with partly Fortified garden 1688.

Entrance front of Ribston showing the French influence roof line.

A more in depth account of the Ribston Estates can be found in PDF files at the end on contents in Goodrick Family History First Edition 1885. BY CHARLES ALFRED GOODRICKE.