PARISH BROCHURE

The United Parish of

Aldborough & Boroughbridge with Roecliffe, Minskip and Dunsforth Contents

Page PART ONE 3 Our Church Community 4 Our strengths and challenge 6 Your Support Team

Page PART TWO 7 The Parish in more detail 8 Aldborough 9 Boroughbridge 10 Dunsforth 11 Minskip 12 Roecliffe

Page PART THREE - Appendices: 13 Current monthly Services & attendance 14 Finance and Administration 15 Churchwarden’s Contact Details & Further reading - websites 16 Map www.boroughbridgechurches.uk

!2 PART ONE all the richness, diversity and Craven. The Bishop of Ripon is the complexities of a changing world. Rt Rev’d Dr Helen-Ann Hartley. Our Church Community – an overview The Diocesan Bishop Our vision as the Diocese is about (The Rt Rev’d Nick confident clergy equipping confident The Anglican Diocese of Leeds Baines) is assisted Christians to live and tell the good comprises five Episcopal Areas, by five Area Bishops news of Jesus Christ. For all of our each coterminous with an (Bradford, appointments we are seeking clergy Archdeaconry. This is now one of Huddersfield, who have a joyful and confident the largest dioceses in the country, Kirkstall, Wakefield faith which has inspired a track and its creation is unprecedented in and Ripon), and five record of church growth, both the history of the Church of archdeacons numerically and spiritually. England. It covers an area of (Bradford, Halifax, Leeds, Pontefract, The future for our United Parish is around 2,425 square miles, and a exciting and we invite you to be Richmond & population of around 2,642,400 part of it. We’re a very welcoming people. Craven). The United Church community based in North Parish of Aldborough Yorkshire, across five communities. The three former dioceses were with Boroughbridge and Roecliffe created in the nineteenth and early lies in the Ripon Deanery of the twentieth centuries to cater for Ripon Episcopal Area, in the massive population changes Archdeaconry of Richmond and brought about by industrialisation and, later, mass immigration. The diocese comprises major cities (Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield), large industrial and post-industrial towns (Halifax, Huddersfield, Dewsbury), market towns (Harrogate, Skipton, Ripon, Richmond and Wetherby), The historic town of Boroughbridge and deeply rural areas (the Dales). lies at the geographical centre of the The whole of life is here, along with five communities, and is also where

!3 the Vicarage is located, a short walk We would welcome new ideas on the skills and experience in this area from the High Street. From here the ways in which we worship and will be invaluable – not least by other four parishes radiate, with develop spiritually. invigorating the links with the Dunsforth being the furthest, but Whilst we have some United three schools in the Parish. One of that’s only about three miles away. Services, and we all get on well the roles of the Vicar is to be a There’s a lot more information together and support each other, we Foundation Governor at Roecliffe C about the villages and churches in are also mindful of the needs of our of E Primary. part two of this document. There’s separate communities: town and Music is important in our services, also a handy map of the local area villages. We see ourselves as we are generally traditional in our on page 16. churches that get on well together music choices but we are open to but serve our communities and not exploring new suggestions, and we merely as a congregation that are fortunate to have great support worships in the five churches in from three organists who are part of turn. our congregations.

We recognise that we need to We love to sing! We have an adult attract more people into the choir, well supported and willing. church from our local community We’d like to enhance this aspect of and communicate the Christian our worship by reinstating our message effectively. We need your Junior Choir, to help enliven our help to do this and to encourage and Services through music. develop Lay Leadership. But here, we wanted to tell you a bit Presently we communicate with our more about our Church Community monthly Parish Link which is – some of our strengths, challenges available in all our churches and is and where we need you to help lead distributed to those who subscribe. us. W e h a v e a w e b s i t e www.boroughbridgechurches.uk We’re a committed group that as well as a FaceBook page. genuinely cares for the church, but recognise there is a need to In particular, we want to encourage growth in Christian reach out to children, young people and discipleship throughout our families. We need to attract them to communities. Church, welcome them, and keep them coming back for more. Your !4 We have five beautiful • Look towards a new MAP for church buildings to share the UPCC. with you. We feel that they are under-utilised in some We are asking a lot from you, so cases at present. We’d like here is what we can offer you in to share them for the return: benefit of the whole • We’ll welcome you with open community and look to arms into our homes & you to lead us in this families. aspiration. • We’ll support you through prayer. In summar y, we are • We’ll help out where we can The numbers at our weekly services asking you to: and utilise the diverse skills are fairly steady in all five churches. of the members of the UPCC • Support and strengthen and congregations. At key events, the congregations closer working of our five • swell and our churches are full to You’ll have support from the churches. the rafters – which is wonderful and T h e R e a d e r , W a r d e n s • Inspire the ways in which we reflects the importance of the A d m i n i s t r a t o r & worship. church in people’s hearts. We look Congregations. • H e l p c o m m u n i c a t e t h e • to you to tap into this. We need you We’ll help you settle in and Christian message to all in get to know the wonderful to reach out to those ‘occasional’ the wider community. area in which we live. church goers and share with them • Grow Christian worship and • We’ll provide you with a large, the wonder of regular Christian i n c r e a s e r e g u l a r r e c e n t ly u p g r a d e d , 4 worship and spirituality. congregations. bedroomed, comfor table • Develop strategies to engage One of the challenges of having five V i c a r a g e . I t b o a s t s a children, youth and families. communities in your charge is being comfortable study looking out • Enliven our services through visible and known in the town and onto a beautiful garden - music. the four villages. Whilst we know perfect for pastoral meetings • Reach out to occasional you can’t be in two places at once, or work, and conveniently church goers. located adjacent to St James we appeal for your approachable • Share your presence. Church. presence w i t h i n t h e w h o l e • Help us utilise our churches • community. We’d like our church to We will remain positive, and better. support community projects better. provide endless coffee & cake (or whatever you prefer)! !5 I've always felt very Meet some of Your Team much welcomed by the Caroline Leachman Punter - congregations of the different Parish Administrator churches in this beautiful rural John Francis area. Moss - Reader I can be found in the Admin Office each Tuesday and Thursday Revd Wilf Gowing I feel privileged morning from 10-12 noon and look to have shared forward to welcoming you. Wilf is an Associate Minister at Holy the Word of God Trinity Ripon but lives closer to within this Boroughbridge. He has helped us community for Bishop Clive out for the last 10 years. At present the past 25 he is available for Services here one years. I As a retired Sunday a month. thoroughly bishop living enjoy nearby in Kirby preparing, leading and assisting at Hill I count it a services, as well as having an privilege to be academic interest in the able to help performance of liturgy and church when needed in music. I also enjoy pastoral aspects the of ministry – despite it frequently Boroughbridge involving the consumption of tea, group of coffee or something churches. stronger… Revd Marjorie Warner

I'm a recently retired priest, Churchwardens living around 10 miles Your Churchwarden’s details are on away who's been page 14, most of them appear in the enjoying helping photo on the cover page! out on a monthly basis. !6 Part Two of Aldborough, Minskip, Roecliffe facilities with the exception of their and Dunsforth. There is planned pubs. Our Parish...in more detail g r o w t h i n a n d a r o u n d The Church has a presence in an Boroughbridge. office in Hall Square shared with the The United Parish of Aldborough & Boroughbridge Town Council and Boroughbridge with Roecliffe, We have three schools in the Parish; To u r i s t I n fo r m a t i o n C e n t r e . Minskip and Dunsforth (UPCC) has B o r o u g h b r i d g e P r i m a r y , C a r o l i n e , o u r p a r t - t i m e a combined population of around Boroughbridge High School and Administrator is based there. 4500, in an area with low levels of R oeclif fe Church of Eng land Each of our five communities has an unemployment and crime. There Primary School. A large number of attractive and well-maintained are a growing number of people children attend secondary schools church. living in the Parish that commute to in Ripon and Harrogate. the nearby conurbations of Leeds, The River Ure flows through York and Harrogate - all served by R o e c l i f f e , B o r o u g h b r i d g e , trains from our nearby Cattal Aldborough and Dunsforth. It is an railway Station. Leeds Bradford attractive resource with many International Airport is just a 30 opportunities for walking fishing minute drive. Fast trains from York and boating along its route. Station take less than two hours to London.

The town of Boroughbridge has an a t t r a c t i v e h i g h s t r e e t w i t h numerous small shops, post office, tourist information centre, library, and pubs on its fringes, a large Please find on the pages below, doctors surgery, four residential some further details of each homes, garages, large supermarket, community and some of their Most housing is of good quality and cafes, caravan parks, allotments, activities and events which define a large proportion are privately hairdressers and light industry. The them. owned, particularly in the villages villages have very few commercial !7 Aldborough What makes Aldborough special • Population 250 and different? • A beautiful, picturesque, • In J u n e , t h e No r t h e r n peaceful village with a very Aldborough Festival with it’s long and important history g r o w i n g r e p u t a t i o n fo r b a ck t o R o m a n B r i t a i n exciting & diverse music o c c u p i e d f o r o v e r t w o concerts. Including a Festival Eucharist in St Andrew’s. millennia. • As Isurium Brigantum, it was • Last Night Outdoor Concert & Picnic in the Manor Grounds the most northerly centre in St Andrew’s Church: the Roman Empire. Pre The • St Andrew’s Church is an concluding with Firework Reform Act 1832 Aldborough architectural gem, grade I Display. • returned two members to listed and situated off the Village Hall actively used for Parliament. village green. a wide range of community and cultural events. • Aldborough Roman Town • It was built in the 14th • Museum is located in the century, on the site of a Village Events - May Day village and is part of English Roman Forum and is believed Festival around the May Pole, Heritage. to be the third church on the Church BBQ, Harvest Festival • T h e v i l l a g e g r e e n i s a site. & Supper. delightful open space at the • Historically it was the centre heart of the village and the and Mother Church of a large maypole has been a long Parish. standing feature, as have the • The clock, built in 1783 has village stocks! the longest pendulum in • The picturesque village is Britain, 30 foot! within a conservation area • Active bell-ringers (a peal of where there are no less than six bells hung for full circle 34 listed buildings. ringing) • There is a popular village pub, • Capacity of 350 souls, our The Ship and a very busy largest church within the Village Hall, formerly the Parish. Church Institute. • Developing a vision of how to ensure the future for both worship & wider uses thrives !8 Boroughbridge • The attractive high street • A n n u a l C h r i s t m a s T r e e offers a great range of local Festival to raise funds for i n d e p e n d e n t r e t a i l e r s Boroughbridge Community including green grocer, gift Care. s h o p s , d e l i , fl o r i s t , • Major Remembrance Sunday newsagents and butchers. event with local military • Boroughbridge is currently units represented. f e a t u r i n g o n C 5 s T h e • E s t a b l i s h e d Yo u t h C l u b Yorkshire Vet. meeting weekly. • The town welcomes cyclists • Midweek Communion to local and walkers, and is situated residential Homes. on the Way of the Roses, a • Outdoor services on special long distance cycle path occasions. between Morecambe and • Family Cycle events with over Bridlington. 200 participating each year. • Annual Art Exhibition in the St James’ Church: Church • Heritage site of the Battle of • Population circa 3400 • The Victorian Church was Boroughbridge 1322. • Boroughbridge is located on designed in the medieval • The generous provision of the ‘the great north road’ a “ D e c o r a t e d ” s t y l e a n d social housing (bungalows strategic position more-or- consecrated in 1852. It and flats) for the disabled and less half way between London replaced the original 12th elderly. and Edinburgh. century Church which stood • Boroughbridge Community • It has had a Bridge crossing on St James’ square in the Care, an independent, largely over the River Ure for many t o w n c e n t r e b e fo r e i t s self-funding charity that centuries, and grew as a demolition in 1852. provides transport, logistical significant stage coach hub in • The Vicar’s vestry contains and other support for local the 17th century. relics from an earlier Norman organisations, schools, the • Three huge pre-historic Church on the same site in sick, disabled and elderly. standing stones are located the square. • It has a varied programme of on the outskirts of the town – social activities to address nobody really knows why What makes Boroughbridge isolation. they are there. special and different? www.boroughbridge.org.uk

!9 Dunsforth and Pet Services. Family services are usually full with • Population circa 200 standing room only! • There are two small villages that make up The Dunsforths, What makes Dunsforth special Upper and Lower, just over a and different? mile apart, and 2.5 miles • A very friendly & welcoming from Aldborough. pair of villages in which the • Both are linear villages and church & fundraising events Lower Dunsforth lies parallel are the main focus for the to the River Ure a little villagers getting together. d o w n s t r e a m f r o m i t s Central to these is the confluence with the River Country Fair & Dog Show. S w a l e i n a r u r a l a r e a This year local celebrity Vet, surrounded by arable and Julian Norton judged the livestock farming. church that had occupied the Dogs & the event should • The Hideaway Kitchen at The site for at least 800 years. feature on the Channel 5 Dunsforth is our village pub • Notable features include a Yorkshire Vet programme. with a difference Saxon Font and a Norman O t h e r e ve n t s i n c l u d e a • The Barn offers groceries & arch & Corbel in the vestry Popular Quiz Night, the unique gifts. both dating from the twelfth Dunsforth Draw & Village • Demographics have changed century. Carol Singing. over recent years, moving • A new Church Mission Action • The vast majority of villagers f r o m a p r e d o m i n a n t l y P l a n ( M A P ) r e c e n t l y get involved in church life farming community to one of identified ways in which the whether attending, cleaning, commuters, retirees and a church could move forward gardening or helping with growing number of younger and engage further with the fund-raising & there is an families. villages. The future looks abundance of goodwill. very exciting. • The Lower Dunsforth Loop St Mary’s Church: • Services are constantly walk is a 2.5 mile circular • S t M a r y ’ s C h u r c h ' s evolving and include regular walk in part along the River foundation stone dates from P a r i s h C o m m u n i o n & Ure. 1860. The present church innovative family services. replaced a much earlier These include the recent www.dunsforths.co.uk addition of a Grandparents !10 Minskip treats. It now boasts a small petting farm. • Population 250 • The smallest of the five communities in the Parish, Minskip is a linear village on the road from Boroughbridge t o K n a r e s b o r o u g h a n d Harrogate. • There are various thoughts on how the name Minskip came about – possibly from • the manufacture of willow Popular Christmas party skips for the mines, or maybe where Father Christmas it is of Nordic origin. m a k e s a v e r y s p e c i a l • The village pub has recently appearance. reopened as The Wild Swan St John’s Church: and is very popular. There is www.minskipvillage.co.uk a good village playing field, • St John’s Church Minskip, and excellent village hall. began life as a Wesleyan • Minskip Cattery has recently Chapel in the Aldborough opened and Minskip Farm Parish around 1857. Shop is very popular amongst • In 1858 the Church became locals, selling locally grown the infants school for the fruit, vegetables, meat and village. • By 1907 the Church was a Mission Church.

Special and different: • Mid-summer BBQ and village party. • Wine tasting, topical talks, quizzes and Bridge in the village hall. !11 Roecliffe • A monthly service is held in the Church along with the important Festival Services. • Population circa 240 • The village is centred around an attractive, tree lined What makes Roecliffe special and village green. different: • The Victorian School building dominates the scene with St • Church of England primary Mary’s Church across the school at the heart of the Green. village. • th The 16 century Crown Inn • Fund raising safari suppers offers award winning food and regular village quiz a n d h i g h q u a l i t y evenings. accommodation. • Music events by candlelight • There are good walking in Church. routes in and around the • Very active WI. village and very attractive • Village litter picking. housing lining the village • Parish Council currently St Mary’s Church: green. developing a Neighbourhood • Most development in the Plan village dates from Victorian • St Mary’s Church Roecliffe times, but there is evidence of was constructed in 1843 for a Roman fort being sited here. Andrew Lawson of nearby • Roecliffe Church of England Aldborough. Primary School use the • It is believed to be the only village green as their playing church in the country with an field, and the presence of the entirely vaulted roof. school means the village has • The Church was declared a lively, if sometimes noisy redundant in 1983 and is now character. This is welcomed in the care of the Churches by residents C o n s e r v a t i o n T r u s t s u p p o r t e d b y V i l l a g e Fundraising Events. www.roecliffe.org.uk

!12 Part Three

Current Monthly Services showing average attendance

Day Time Church Service Adults Under 16 Communicants

1st Sunday 8:30am Aldborough Holy Communion (said) 17 0 16 9:30am Dunsforth Holy Communion 15 2 14

10:45am Boroughbridge Holy Communion 34 2 18

2nd Sunday 9:30am Roecliffe Holy Communion 17 5 20 10:45am Boroughbridge Family Service 33 1 0

3rd Sunday 9:15am Dunsforth Holy Communion 15 2 14

9:30am Aldborough Holy Communion 17 0 16 10:45am Boroughbridge Holy Communion 29 1 26

4th Sunday 9:30am Aldborough Family Service 18 4 0

9:30am Minskip Holy Communion 19 7 14 10:45am Boroughbridge Holy Communion 29 1 26

6:00pm Boroughbridge Evensong 22 0 0

5th Sunday 10:00am Each Church in turn United Holy Communion 42 average

2nd & 3rd Wednesdays 10:45am Boroughbridge Holy Communion 8 0 8 1st & 4th Wednesdays 10:00am Kirby Hill & Boroughbridge United Holy Communion

!13 Finance & Administration - detailed accounts can be made available upon request.

Name of Body Date of most recent Total Income for the Total Expenditure Year End Balance inc Total Funds accounts year for the year previous monies b/f UPCC Main Account 31/12/17 £2863.30 £3139.56 £411.39 Parish Link Account 31/12/17 £3974.00 £3454.69 £724.70 Deposit Fund 31/12/17 £3.52 £433.84 £1569.93 St Andrew’s Church 31/12/17 £22917.00 £27590.00 £10210.00 Aldborough

CCLA Deposit Acc 31/12/17 £238.00 £41230.00 £51440.00 St James’ Church 31/12/17 £32418.22 £25611.08 £9859.70 Boroughbridge

Other Accounts 31/12/17 £24092.64 £33952.34 St Mary’s Church 31/12/17 £18929.00 £17389 £3470.00 Dunsforth 31/12/17 £6033.00 Inv Fund £9503.00 St John’s Church 31/12/17 £7835.00 £7389.34 £1852.10 Minskip CE Deposit Acc 31/12/17 £17425.63 £19277.73 St Mary’s Church 31/12/17 £14079.09 £14579.16 £6876.67 Roecliffe CBF Accounts 31/12/17 £34781.87

Schroders UK 31/12/17 £16579.59 £58238.13 Please note that the Parish Share is paid up to date and finances are healthy.

!14 Churchwardens Aldborough Boroughbridge Dunsforth Minskip Roecliffe

Elizabeth Vose Kath Ambrose Penelope Denny Robert Beaumont Jim Bolland Hill Top House 10 Church Lane Matteson Farm Minskip Lodge Vicarage Farm Back Street Boroughbridge Lower Dunsforth Minskip Roecliffe Aldborough York York York York York YO51 9EX YO51 9BA YO26 9SA YO51 9JF YO51 9LY 01423 203503 01423 322070 01423 322901 01423 323139 01423 325091 James Lawson-Tancred Tony Weeds Fiona Merchie N/A Stephen Jarvis Village Farm 43 St James Meadow Colton House Farm 1 West View, Bar Lane Aldborough Boroughbridge Lower Dunsforth Roecliffe York York York York YO51 9ES YO51 9NW YO26 9SA YO51 9LS 01423 326162 01423 391535 01423 322526 01423 322026

Further Reading - websites The villages who have their own websites are included in the text on their page, in addition this is just a handful of interesting sites to give you a flavour of the area which has so much to offer: Aldborough http://romanaldborough.co.uk https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/aldborough-roman-site/ www.aldboroughfestival.co.uk Boroughbridge http://www.boroughbridge-pri.n-yorks.sch.uk http://www.boroughbridgehigh.com http://www.boroughbridgelive.btck.co.uk/ https://www.visitharrogate.co.uk/things-to-do/boroughbridge-tourist-information-centre-p1209821 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boroughbridge https://boroughbridgelibrary.org.uk http://www.boroughbridgeshow.co.uk Minskip http://www.yorkshirevenues.org.uk/venues/minskip-village-hall https://minskipfarmshop.com Roecliffe http://www.roecliffe.n-yorks.sch.uk Dunsforth www.facebook.com/pages/category/Grocery-Store/The-Barn-285381232200642/ All http://yorevision.org.uk http://lowerurenews.co.uk https://www.northyorkshiresport.co.uk/directory https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/boroughbridgetennisclub

!15 Where you will find us!

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