From the Drummer Boy Stone you can Darlington Rd is Anchorage Hill. (IP 7). WALK 3 either walk alongside the river by TR at You may wish to cross the road to look The Castle, Easby Abbey, the gates to the Boat House. Note there at this historic area. is a set of steep steps at the far end. Maison Dieu, Frenchgate OR continue past the Drummer Boy DISTANCE = APPROX. 5.5 KM Stone on a narrow, sometimes muddy path. Both routes meet at a kissing A pleasant stroll east of Richmond footpath past the old Grammar School gate going into a field. Once in the field along the river Swale to Easby Abbey through to the main road. Cross the keep follow the fence line to Abbey returning on a higher route with road with care into Lombard’s Wynd. Mill House. Go through the gate and panoramic views across the town. Lombard’s Wynd is an ancient route continue along the access drive to Note the route via Easby Low Road is linking the river Swale to the top Easby Abbey. (IP17) not Access friendly whereas the old of Frenchgate. railway track via the Station is From the Abbey TL, passing on your At the road junction TL, walk 200m to Continue along Lombard’s Wynd to left St Agatha’s Church: (IP 18) and the traffic lights and The Green Howards The route a T junction. TR and follow this lane the ruined Abbey Gate on your right. Monument. Walk down Frenchgate From the Castle, walk into the Market signed to Easby. Along the way is Head uphill, TL at the junction into (IP 6) to Church Wynd on the left. Place (IP 12) and TR and R again into the Drummer Boy Stone, (IP 16) where the quaint hamlet of Easby (Note the Go through the church yard bearing Millgate. Walk down Millgate TL into there is a plaque telling the story of engraved plaque on the front of one R to the main road and a set of Park Wynd and the Batts. Follow the this unfortunate young boy. of the cottages). Continue along this pedestrian lights. Cross the road, gently rising lane to a junction with a TR and at the junction follow signs to main road. As you do so look for the the Market Place. This area is known Castle Keep emerging from the valley. as The Channel (IP 15). TR into Pause to admire the views of Richmond Ryders Wynd past Richmondshire Castle and town with the higher moors Museum. At the roundabout TL into of Swaledale in the background. King Street and the Market Place. As you approach the road junction, ahead on the left is St Nicholas House (IP 19). Cross the main road with care, TL along the raised pavement heading back into Richmond. At the junction with The Avenue, cross the main road (Maison Dieu) for several impressive views of the Castle and town. Continue along Maison Dieu. At the junction of Maison Dieu and the 18 19 Wainwright’s seat E T Ambulance & A Fire Stations G W O L L DARLINGTON ROAD HURGILL ROAD A Police C of E Richmond School WALK 3 G Primary & Sixth Form Station Scool The Castle, Easby Abbey, WESTFIELDS THE AVENUE Maison Dieu, Frenchgate Anchorage Hill POTTERGATE War Memorial LOM QUAKER LANE BA MAISON DIEU R D Supermarket FLINTS S Ronaldshay W Y Park TERRACE N Allotments D GREEN LANE CORONATION PLACE Library St Marys Nuns Close Grey Church Car Park Cricket Friars DUNDAS ST. (C of E) P Tower Friary Club Gardens Methodist Church Cemetery P AD 200 metres approx QUEENS ROAD O REETH ROAD Georgian Richmondshire R St. Nicholas VICTORIA ROAD N Theatre Museum IO House Royal AT Influence FRIARS WYND FRENCHGATE T E S Church N P P A Hermitage L Post Swimming Y R Court RC Church A FINKLEOffice ST. Baths EM MILL CROFT ROS A6108 KING ST. Temple NEWBIGGIN Green Howards Drummer Boy Museum Stone Grounds CRAVENGATE BARGATE P Market Hall The The BANK YARD & Richmond Batts Station Information WATERLOO Market Place Centre M I L Town Hall L G A R T I E M I R N A G B T Culloden E O NEW ROAD H T N P A Tower L V IL H E H N RT U FO E ST JAMES CHAPEL WYND RN CO Footbridge Yorke Square PRIORY VILLAS Car Park P CASTLE WALK THE GREEN Waterfalls Round RIVERSIDE ROAD P Howe Earls Orchard Football Ground Rugby Club Old Railway Line Easby Abbey Low Bank Wood S Easby L St. E E Agatha’s Billy Bank G I Wood LL ROUTE Holly Hill ALTERNATIVE ROUTE 200200 metres metres approxapprox Old Railway 200 metres approx Bridge 20 21 military area until the 14th Century. 18 St Agatha’s Church: has well preserved Points of Information The town’s various open air markets 13th Century wall paintings and a replica of an 8th century carved stone cross. The 1 The Bar: Bar means gateway. Built (ancress) was a religious woman who lived located here after that date. It is incorrect in 1311, The Bar is the only remaining of in a small chapel as a hermit. They didn’t to refer to it as the Market Square as its original Easby Cross is now on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 3 postern (pedestrian) gates into the old belong to any specific religious order. shape is more like a horseshoe due to it It is the only original cross they have. town. Notice the remains of the town wall The chapel at Anchorage Hill was once being the Outer Bailey. It is the largest and the ramparts (wall /& ditch) making it a dedicated to St Edmund after Edmund, cobbled area in England and the round; 19 St Nicholas House: Founded in 1171 good defensive site. King of East Anglia. He died in 868 smooth cobbles came from the River Swale. as a medieval hospital. It was run by a religious community who cared for 2 The Green: This was an important following a raid by the Danes. He is laid to 13 Holy Trinity Chapel: Serving the Outer industrial area for leather tanning, rest at Bury St Edmunds. In 1607 the chapel Bailey this was one of four chapels built people who were elderly, poor or in ill production of woollen cloth, corn mills became the Bowes Hospital providing within the grounds of the Castle, the other health. It is now a private residence. and blacksmiths using water and power housing for three widows. The chapel three being in the Inner Bailey. Holy Trinity Artefacts found in the grounds are on from the Swale. styled building is still one of Richmond’s was restored in Victorian times. display at Richmondshire Museum and almshouses but now only for one person. St Mary’s Church. 3 Richmond Bridge: Until Station 14 Burgage plots: These were long and (Mercury) Bridge was built in 1846 to access 8 Greyfriars and Friary Gardens: The site narrow plots of land with a house, shop or 20 St James Chapel Wynd: In the 12th the railway station, Richmond Bridge was of a Franciscan Friary (Greyfriars) founded outbuildings fronting a road. Burgage is a Century St James was a popular medieval the main crossing point of the Swale for in 1258. See interpretation plaque. There medieval land term used in Great Britain saint whose Shrine at Santiago de traffic from Wensleydale. After crossing the were several springs in the grounds which and Ireland, well established by the 13th Compostela in northern Spain was the third bridge, traffic would have entered the town provided drinking water for the people of century. A burgage was a town (“borough” most important Christian site for pilgrimage via Bargate and Finkle Street Bar. Richmond. or “burgh”) rental property (to use modern after Jerusalem and Rome. terms), owned by a king or lord. Over the : Built in 1746 as a folly 4 Earls Orchard: Now the grounds of 9 Friar’s Wynd: One of two postern 21 Culloden Tower Richmond Town Football club, in Medieval gates the other being The Bar. Friar’s Wynd centuries many burgage plots have been to commemorate the Battle of Culloden. times this may have been where knights enabled townsfolk to access clean water infilled with housing. It is on the site of the old Hudswell Pele Tower. Peel towers (also spelt pele) were practised their jousting and horseman- from Greyfriars. 15 The Channel: Site of defensive gate small fortified keeps or tower house. ship skills. 10 Finkle Street and Bar: Finkle means where Frenchgate and The Channel meet. : One of three areas of open 5 St Mary’s Church: established in crooked. About half way along there is a Traffic travelling from east via the Great 22 Westfield 1125 as the Parish Church for Richmond. noticeable kink which marks the place of North Road and Northallerton would have pasture, Gallowfields and Eastfield being Although renovated in Victorian times, Finkle Bar. Look for a small rectangular entered the town here. the other two. The open field system gave individual peasants land in the form of medieval glass, tombstones and two plaque on the right hand side just above 16 The Drummer Boy Stone: Legend has strips scattered among the different fields. Norman arches can be seen. head height. The Bar was demolished in it that some centuries ago soldiers found Crops such as rye, barley and vegetables 1777 to make room for traffic. Traffic from a narrow tunnel underneath Richmond 6 Frenchgate: In Norman times would have been grown using a system Swaledale would come down Hurgill Road Castle.