Walking Routes

The Celtic Monastery Plaque

The Celtic Monastery Plaque

Green Plaque providing information about the Celtic monastery

St Cuthbert Was A monk at the Celtic monastery founded hereabouts by an Anglo-saxon prince of Northumbria c.AD 660. When St Wilfrid became abbot a few years later, he introduced the Roman tradition of worship and the Celtic monks departed. Ailcey Hill, the wooded mound seen in the distance became a monastic burial ground. (Taken from the Ripon Civic Society Green Plaque.)