Rippington Manor

The original building, then called Repingdon (later Reppington), was a cell of the Augustinian monastery at Repton. It stood on this site in 660 and was referred to in a charter of 1159, recorded in an inventory of the 1st Earl of Clare. It was destroyed in the Danish Wars, but rebuilt in 1172 by Maud, widow of Ranulph, Earl of Chester. The ponds were used by the monks for fishing.