Ripley, North Yorkshire

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Ripley is a village in North Yorkshire

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Ripley within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Ripley in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Ripley, small market town, par., and township with ry. sta. (Ripley Valley), E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Nidd, 3½ m. NW. of Harrogate - par., 7386 ac., pop. 1383; township, 1641 ac., pop. 291; P.O., T.O. Market-day, Monday. The town was rebuilt in 1829-30. Ripley Castle (erected 1555), seat of the Ingilby family, gave lodging for a night to Oliver Cromwell at the time of the battle of Marston Moor; it has extensive gardens and grounds, and holds 2 fairs.

Ripley in the Domesday Book

A village in Burghshire hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

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