RIPLEY, Derbyshire

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Census

• The parish was the centre of the Ripley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• The church was built in 1820 and consecrated the next year in 1821.
  
  
• The church seats 600.

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Church Records

• We have a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a pop-up window text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The General Baptists built a chapel here in Church Street in 1846.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in Chaple Street in 1847.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in Grosvenor Place in 1850.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Reformists purchased the old Lecture Hall in Wood Street and converted it into a chapel in 1854.
  
  
• The Unitarians had a chapel in Butterfly Hill by 1857.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was the centre of the Ripley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"RIPLEY is a township, in the parish of Pentrich, nearly 8 miles S.S.E. from Wirksworth, 5 N.E. from Belper, and nearly 4 S. by W. from Alfreton. Ripley was formerly a market town of some consequence, chartered about the reign of Henry III. The principal buildings of the place form a large quadrangle, consisting of several good shops and well built houses. The iron and coal works in the neighbourhood give employment to a considerable portion of the inhabitants."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

Ripley is 10 miles north of Derby city and the parish covers 2,161 acres.

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Directories

• A Description of Ripley has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes from Pigot's Directory of 1828-9.

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Ripley from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Genealogy

• Major John JESSOP was a resident of this village in 1857 and died here in 1869. He had served as ADC to the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War.

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History

• The Butterley Ironworks Company was established just north-west of the village in 1793.
  
  
• Some of the township's citizens were involved in the "Pentrich Revolution" of 1817.
  
  
• The Midland Railway came to this village on 1 September, 1856.
  
  
• The Ripley Hippodrome opened in 1913 and later became known as the Oxford Hippodrome because it expanded onto Oxford Street.

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Military Records

• The War Memorial is in the grounds to the south of the church.
  
  
• Andy MICKLETHWAITE provides a list of names from the Ripley War Memorial.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Pentrich parish in the county of Derby and it became a spearate, modern Civil parish in December, 1866.
  
• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Belper Poorlaw Union.
  

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