Ripley is a delightful village just 15 minutes from the Cathedral at Rippon and 23 miles from York.
It has a fine medieval church, a castle dating from the 15th century, a very nice hotel and a war memorial.
The memorial stands as it should in the centre of the village and records the 42 men who marched off to the Great War, including the five who never returned, and the twenty six who served in the Second World War of which one died.
Today the population stands at 232, and back in 1840 it was 270.
I don’t have the figures for the population of either the village or the surrounding countryside for 1918 or 1945 but those 68 men and women recorded on the memorial will compose a significant number of the people who lived here and served.
Location; Ripley
Picture; Ripley, 2017 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
The memorial stands as it should in the centre of the village and records the 42 men who marched off to the Great War, including the five who never returned, and the twenty six who served in the Second World War of which one died.
Today the population stands at 232, and back in 1840 it was 270.
I don’t have the figures for the population of either the village or the surrounding countryside for 1918 or 1945 but those 68 men and women recorded on the memorial will compose a significant number of the people who lived here and served.
Picture; Ripley, 2017 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
Ripley is delightful and the Castle well worth a visit.
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