What roads make up this catchment area? Under 20's. Age Proportion of people Compared to the regional average Against average 0 to 9 Harrogate A. Harrogate B. Harrogate C. Ripon is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire , situated on the River Ure and home to around 16, people. It is the fourth smallest city in the country, famous for its Cathedral, the horn blower ceremony and tourism.
The origins of this fascinating ritual dates back to the year , when King Alfred the Great visited the Ripon on a tour commemorating his victory against The Vikings.
The king was so impressed with the welcome he received from the locals that he decided on the spot to grant Ripon a Royal town charter. He told them to keep it safe forever and to appoint a wakeman plus a team of constables, who would patrol the streets, in order to keep the people safe from the Vikings should they return. This continued until , when the town received a more official town charter from King James I. The first mayor, Hugh Ripley did not trust his new appointment and made a rule in which after the ceremony the horn blower must find the mayor, wherever they are and blow the horn three times in their face to let them know the setting of the watch ceremony had been completed.
The current horn is the fourth to be used, with the original kept in safe-keeping at the town hall. The obelisk in the centre of the marketplace where the ceremony takes place was built in to commemorate the Ripon horn blowers and also lists each one since Ripon has been a place of worship for more than 1, years and has had four churches on the present cathedral site, including an original stone church built by St Wilfred in the 7 th century.
The rest of the cathedral was started in the 12 th century by Thomas of Bayeux, the first Norman Archbishop of York, as an extension. The building has been consistently added to and modified up until the present day. The two towers at the west entrance date from , while the nave and central tower was re-built, after it collapsed in To the keen observer the arches and pillars are mis-matched under this tower because work was halted, due to the disruption of the War of The Roses.
In the minster achieved cathedral status and thus Ripon became a city and the mother church for the first new diocese created since the reformation.
The abbey was founded in by Benedictine monks but was destroyed during the reformation of the s, leaving a well preserved ruin. The land went into royal hands afterwards, but was eventually bought by the Aislabie family in the early 18 th century who combined the abbey with its surrounding Studley royal estate and created the water gardens which are admired by tourists to this day. The deer park has existed since medieval times, as part of the abbey, which is still home to over animals. The haunted Fountains Hall is also part of the Studley Royal Estate, built in , and is now partly open to the public, with private flats taking up the remainder of the building.
To the North of Ripon lies Lightwater Valley theme park , which has existed since and has the longest rollercoaster in Europe, the Ultimate, which opened four years later. The site started as a fruit farm in the s, but after a severe drought in fell into financial difficulties and was eventually turned into the theme park.
It charts the history of justice in the town and tells the story of how convicts were sent thousands of miles away as punishment, including examples of real-life cases.
The Police and Prison museum charts the history of policing and punishment in Ripon from Anglo-Saxon Times and shows the importance of the Wakeman, who was head of law and order. The attraction also gives visitors the chance to experience life in a Victorian prison cell.
The grounds feature a variety of beautiful areas, such as rose, water and Tropical gardens and are well known for their blooms of rhododendrons, azaleas and magnolias. There is also a miniature railway and adventure playground amongst other attractions.
Surprisingly for a city of such history and culture there is no theatre, however there is the Curzon cinema , which opened in and shows broadcasted performances of classical concerts and ballet performances as well as screening both alternative and mainstream films.
Ripon is well linked to other towns and cities in Yorkshire. It is situated adjacent to the A1, giving easy access to the South and West Ridings. Unfortunately Ripon lost its railway station due to the Beeching axe of , but when operational was situated on the Leeds-Northallerton line.
Unlike some other Yorkshire places , who demolished their stations after closure of the line, the original building still remains and is now converted into flats, with gardens laid out over old track beds.
In recent years there has been a strong campaign to re-open the line to Harrogate and proposals have been made for sites in which a new Ripon station could be built. The people of Northern England were quite traditional in their beliefs and were unhappy about Henry's intention to break with Rome. The mainly Catholic North supported her, and there was another popular rising known as the Rising of the North; this began six miles away at Topcliffe and was led by Thomas Percy, the 7th Earl of Northumberland and Charles Neville, the 6th Earl of Westmorland.
The rebels stayed at Ripon on 18 November , but the rising eventually failed resulting in people being executed, of whom were hanged at Gallows Hill in Ripon during January Ripon replaced its old textiles industry with one for the manufacture of spurs during the 16th century.
They were so widely known that they gave rise to the proverb "as true steel as Ripon Rowels. At the time, spurs did not just serve as functional riding accessories, they were also fashionable; an expensive pair was made for King James I when he stayed at Ripon in Although Ripon was not in the main line of fighting which was to the east, it remained loyal and royalist during the English Civil War.
There was an incident in , when parliamentarian forces under Thomas Mauleverer entered Ripon and damaged the Minster, but John Mallory and the royalist forces soon settled the matter after a skirmish in the Market Place. The royalists were eventually defeated in the Civil War and Charles I spent two nights as a prisoner in Ripon.
Oliver Cromwell visited the city twice on his way to battle, once on the way to the Preston and on the way to the Battle of Worcester. Communications were improved with the opening of Ripon railway station in May During the First World War a large military training camp was built in Ripon, the local community offering hospitality not only to soldiers' wives but to the Flemish refugees who became part of Ripon's community.
The racecourse south-east of the city also served as an airfield for the Royal Flying Corps The racecourse was also used as a demobilisation centre for troops returning from France well into Ripon was the first Church of England diocese to be created after the English Reformation, as it was recognised that existing dioceses were unsuited for the large increases in population caused particularly by the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century in central England.
It was deemed that new cathedral building on a national scale was not viable and so Ripon, containing a high-status parish church, was created from the existing Chester and York dioceses in , with the building promoted to cathedral status.
Ripon council presumed this had elevated the town to the rank of city and started referring to itself as such. In Ripon borough was abolished and a parish council established as part of wider local government reform.
The award of city status is typically granted to a local authority, whose administrative area is then considered to be the formal borders of the city, the grant in this case being removed at the same time and bestowed onto the parish. By this definition, the whole parish council area of Ripon, including its settlement and surrounding rural area containing a tiny portion of the Nidderdale AONB to the north west, is the limits of the city.
It contains the third lowest population of all the cities in England. Ripon became a municipal borough of the West Riding of Yorkshire in , remaining so until That year, following the Local Government Act , the former area of Ripon borough was merged with Harrogate borough and several rural districts of the West Riding to form an enlarged Harrogate borough in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire.
Ripon still has an ancient Hornblower, who blows his horn at the four corners in the Market Square, every night at 9pm. YouTube videos and everything. This handsome, independent city of ancient history, with modern twists, fantastic tearooms and shops. Being right on the edge of the glorious Yorkshire Dales national park is fantastic with buses to Harrogate and Leeds several times an hour.
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