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The works received recognition from the Duke of York's Community Initiative Award in 2007 [8] and, following the re-opening of the town hall, later performers there included the American singer-songwriter, Steve Cropper, in November 2014, [9] the rock band, Magna Carta, in September 2017 [10] and the pub rock band, Dr. Feelgood, in December 2017.
A 19th century Ingilby tore down the old village, except for the castle and the church, and modelled it after an Alsatian village with Ripley Town Hall designed in the style of a French "hôtel de ville". [9] There is a cycle path between Ripley and Harrogate called the Nidderdale Greenway which is part of the National Cycle Route 67. [10] [11]
After the area became an urban district in 1894, [7] an extensive programme of works was initiated in December 1906 to convert the market hall into a town hall: [8] the works, which involved a council chamber and offices being created on the ground floor, a public hall being established on the first floor and offices for council officers and ...
Ripley is a town on Lake Erie in the westernmost part of Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The population was 2,310 at the time of the 2020 census. [2] The town was named after Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, a general in the War of 1812. There are no incorporated villages in the town, but there is one census-designated place: the hamlet of ...
Ripley Town Hall. What is now Ripley Town Hall on the north side of the Market Place was erected in 1880 as a market hall. The architect was George Eyre of Codnor. It occupied the site of a much older dwelling known as The White House. The Market Hall was originally open on the ground floor. In 1907, it was converted into a Town Hall by the ...
Ripley's trustees and their estates office moved into the junior school accommodation. The infants school continued until just before the First World War. Its premises continued in use as a parish hall and village social centre until after the Second World War. Successive census results give a picture of a prosperous and stable community.
The village has existed since Norman times – the chancel of the church of St. Mary Magdalen shows construction of circa 1160 there and supporting feet of fines and ecclesiastical records mention the village at the time. Ripley's sister village of Send to the south-west was the governing parish over the village for over 700 years until 1878 ...
Ripley is a village in Union Township, Brown County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River 50 miles southeast of Cincinnati. The population was 1,591 at the 2020 ...