The place-name Tripsdale means ‘rack valley’ and derives from threpel – a gruesome wooden contraption upon which the body of a convicted man was fixed, prior to execution.
TRIPSDALE III
The place-name Tripsdale means ‘rack valley’ and derives from threpel – a gruesome wooden contraption upon which the body of a convicted man was fixed, prior to execution.
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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