Ripple, Kent
| Ripple | |
| Kent | |
|---|---|
 The Plough Inn, Ripple | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TR345465 |
| Location: | 51°11’47"N, 1°21’18"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 372 (2011) |
| Post town: | Deal |
| Postcode: | CT14 |
| Dialling code: | 01304 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Dover |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Dover |
Ripple, also known as 'Ripple Vale', is a village in the far east of Kent.
The name 'Ripple' is from Old English, meaning 'A strip of land'.[1]
Ripple parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin; the village pub is The Plough.
History
In the 1870s, Ripple was described as:
RIPPLE, a parish in Eastry district, Kent; near the coast, 2½ miles S W of Deal r. station. Post-town, Deal. Acres, 1, 134. Real property, £2, 676. Pop., 254. Houses, 51. The property is divided among a few. R. House, R. Court, and R. Vale are chief residences. Traces of a Roman entrenchment are a little to the N of the church; and another ancient entrenchment, anoblong of about ½ an acre, is called Dane Pits. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £278.* Patron, J. A. Johnson, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1861; is in a mixed style, chiefly Norman; and has a tower and spire.[2]
John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, the commander of the first British Expeditionary Force in the First World War was born there in 1852, and is buried at the village church. His sister Charlotte Despard, the suffragist, novelist and Sinn Féin activist was also born in Ripple in 1844.
Ripple Primary School, the village's state school, closed in 2007 due to low attendance. Another school was also established in the parish, but was a specialised school for boys with Autism aged 6–18 years old and was named Ripplevale School.
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References
- ↑ Ruipple: Key to English Place-names
- ↑ "History of Ripple, in Dover and Kent | Map and description". http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6328.