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Ripon

Ripon is a cathedral city in , England, with a population in 2011 of 16,702. Its main attraction is the cathedral, and the nearby UNESCO World Heritage Site of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden.
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  • Type: City with 16,000 residents
  • Description: cathedral city in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
  • Also known as: “Ripon, North Yorkshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ripon Cathedral and Ripon Town Hall.

Church
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Wilfrid, commonly known as , and until 1836 known as Ripon Minster, is a cathedral in Ripon, , England.

Town hall
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is a municipal building in the Market Place, Ripon, , England. The structure, which was the headquarters of Ripon Borough Council, is a Grade II* listed building.

Museum
Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sharow and Hutton Conyers.

Village
Photo: David Rogers, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish in the county of , England. It is about 1 mile north-east of Ripon. The name derives from the Old English of 'Scearu' and 'Hōh' which translates as boundary hill-spur or a share/division of a sharply projecting piece of land.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the county of , England. It is situated near the and 1-mile north-east of Ripon. The parish extends from the River Ure to the A1 motorway, and includes the village of .

Hamlet
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is a hamlet in the county of , England. It is about 1 mile north-east of Ripon. was historically a township in the ancient parish of Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Ripon

Latitude
54.1362° or 54° 8′ 10″ north
Longitude
-1.5238° or 1° 31′ 26″ west
Population
16,000
Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB RIP
Open location code
9C6W4FPG+FF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26867545
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2639323
Wiki­data ID
Q661529
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Ripon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ريبون”
  • Armenian: “Ռիպոն”
  • Asturian: “Ripon”
  • Basque: “Ripon”
  • Bengali: “রিপন”
  • Bulgarian: “Рипън”
  • Catalan: “Ripon”
  • Cebuano: “Ripon”
  • Chinese: “利邦”
  • Chinese: “里彭”
  • Czech: “Ripon”
  • Danish: “Ripon”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ripon”
  • Dutch: “City of Ripon”
  • Dutch: “Ripon”
  • Esperanto: “Katedralo Ripon”
  • Esperanto: “Ripon”
  • Finnish: “Ripon”
  • French: “Ripon”
  • German: “Ripon”
  • Greek: “Ρίπον”
  • Gujarati: “રિપન”
  • Hebrew: “ריפון”
  • Hindi: “रिपन”
  • Hungarian: “Ripon”
  • Icelandic: “Ripon”
  • Indonesian: “Ripon”
  • Irish: “Ripon”
  • Italian: “Ripon”
  • Japanese: “リポン”
  • Kannada: “ರಿಪನ್”
  • Kannada: “ರಿಪೋನ್”
  • Korean: “리펀”
  • Kurdish: “Ripon”
  • Ladin: “Ripon”
  • Latin: “Ripum”
  • Latvian: “Ripona”
  • Lithuanian: “Riponas”
  • Malay: “Ripon”
  • Manipuri: “ꯔꯤꯄꯣꯟ”
  • Marathi: “रिपन”
  • Mazanderani: “ریپون”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ripon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ripon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ripon”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hrypum”
  • Persian: “ریپون”
  • Polish: “Ripon”
  • Portuguese: “Ripon (North Yorkshire)”
  • Portuguese: “Ripon”
  • Romanian: “Ripon”
  • Russian: “Рипон”
  • Serbian: “Рипон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ripon”
  • Sinhala: “රිපන්”
  • Slovak: “Ripon”
  • Slovenian: “Ripon”
  • Spanish: “Ripon”
  • Swedish: “Ripon”
  • Tagalog: “Ripon”
  • Tamil: “ரிபன்”
  • Tamil: “ரிப்போன்”
  • Telugu: “రిపన్”
  • Thai: “ริปอน”
  • Turkish: “Ripon”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріпон”
  • Urdu: “رپن”
  • Vietnamese: “Ripon”
  • Volapük: “Ripon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ripon”
  • Welsh: “Ripon”
  • Western Frisian: “Ripon”
  • Western Panjabi: “رپن”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Ripon”. Photo: Klaus with K, CC BY-SA 3.0.