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The Mother Shipton River Nidd association is due to the well and cave being situated next to this water way.
 
The Nidd River passes through several England settlements. Knaresborough is one of them.
 
Knaresborough is a town that starts gaining interest in the 1100's when some prominent people begin building a castle. The Knaresborough Castle which is situated on a hill by the River Nidd attracts skilled workers and merchants and the boom leads to a growth in the small settlement.
 
Timeline of the Knaresborough Castle
 
  • c. 1100 - Norman
  • c. 1115 - first Lord of Knaresborough is named - Serlo de Burgh
  • c. 1158 - Hugh de Morville takes over as Lord
  • c. 1173 - Stuteville family take lordship
  • c. 1205 - King John presides Knaresborough in his own Honour
  • c. 1310 - rebels occupy the castle
  • c. 1328 - Queen Philippa is Honour of Castle
  • c. 1369 - John the Gaunt, son of Edward and Philippa takes the charge
Not much is known of the Castle along river Nidd from this point until after the legendary lifespan of Mother Shipton comes and goes.
 
More on the River Nidd.
 
After all this is a Mother Shipton exercise and we are told by some historical speculators that she was the child of the devil so we look for reasons why the devil would choose the river Nidd or more precisely Knaresborough, Yorkshire, in England as a place to sow his legacy.
 
The River Nidd is a tributary of the Ouse river system of tributaries - pronounced ooze as in booze. Along with several other such rivers the Nidd drains the upland area of Northern England.
 
Interestingly enough, by some accounts several small monastic settlements would have been found along the Nidd and these other rivers long before the coming of the Vikings or Normans. ( mostly at Nun Monkton )
 
By the year 1200, a century or so after the Norman conquest nunneries began to populate the area.
 
Interesting to the Shipton story is the fact that Henry VIII dissolved the last catholic priory in Nun Moncton in 1536.
 
This quote from Wikipedia tells the story.
 

In 1172 an Anglo Norman landowner, Ivetta of the Arches, endowed a small Benedictine nunnery which owned the village and stood on the important ford route from York and Moor Monkton to the south and Beningbrough and Shipton to the north, coming across the river......The Priory [catholic hostel for priests or nuns ] existed until 1536 when it was dissolved by King Henry VIII despite a plea from his second wife, Anne Boleyn, that it be spared. Records suggest that some of the nuns return to their families....and while keeping their monastic vows of celibacy endured considerable hardship as a result of the closure of the convent.
 
 
 
So if you were asking " where the devil is that Shipton River Nidd ", now you know.
 
But if you were looking for great trout fishing spots along the Shipton river Nidd the devil may know but I don't.....
 
  
 
 
 
 
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