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Celtic Monastery, Ripon, Cuthbert, and Wilfrid green plaque

Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

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. Ailey Hill, the wooded mound seen in th

e distance, became a monastic burial ground.

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