Ripon
Ripon is a small town in the Borough of Harrogate the English county of North Yorkshire and had according to census in 2001 a total of 15,922 inhabitants.
- 5.1 traffic
- 6.1 Sons of city
Geography
Ripon lies on the River Ure, 20 kilometers north of the district capital of Harrogate. Cities are within a radius Leeds (45 km south), Bradford (50 km southwest), York ( 40 km southeast ) and Middlesbrough (50 km north).
History
The permanent settlement of Ripon goes back to a monastery, which was founded in the 7th century. In 1108 Ripon was granted city rights. Center of the town is the market square with the obelisk built in 1702, today the oldest free-standing obelisks in the country. For centuries (supposedly for over 1,100 years ), the tradition is maintained that blows his horn at 21.00 clock in the market square of the city guards at the four corners of the obelisk.
Policy
Twinning
Ripon has been twinned with
Culture and sights
One of the attractions of the city is the Cathedral, which was built around 672 under Wilfrid, Bishop of York as one of the first stone churches of England. It was destroyed in a fire at 860 and up to 900 again to be destroyed by 1069 by the Normans.
In 1080 Thomas left of Bayeux, the first Norman Archbishop of York to build a new church. In the 12th and 13th centuries, the church was greatly expanded. During a storm in 1450 the central tower collapsed, and the church was not usable to 1485.
Originally the cathedral was a Munster ( monastery church). The cathedral was not until 1836, the Diocese of Ripon was founded, the first new since the Reformation.
Near Ripon Fountains Abbey is Britain's largest monastic ruin. The monastery was founded in 1132 by 13 Benedictine monks. Henry VIII had the monastery dissolve in 1539 and sold it to private ownership. Today, Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal the nearby estate owned by the British National Trust. Another attraction are the north of Ripon located Thornborough Henges and Studley Royal Water Garden southwest of the city.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Ripon is located on the A61 ( Derby Thirsk ) crossing located five kilometers northeast of the city to the highway A1 (London- Edinburgh). Other roads are leading to Richmond A6108 and the B6265, via which a connection to the motorway-like A1 ( M) is at Boroughbridge.
Ripon was once connected by the railway Leeds - Northallerton to the rail network in Britain. 1967, the station was closed for passenger and 1969 the railway line was completely shut down in the wake of the Beeching Axe. The cost of reactivating the line would amount to approximately £ 40 million. This process starts from about 1200 passengers a day in the opening year and up to 2700 passengers in subsequent years from.
Personalities
Sons of the city
- Edward Baines the Elder (1774-1848), journalist and Member of Parliament
- Frederick Orpen Bower (1855-1948), botanist
- David George Kendall (1918-2007), leading authority in the field of applied probability and data analysis
- Edward Gawler Prior (1853-1920), politician and mining engineer - Prime Minister of the Province of British Columbia
- George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon ( 1827-1909 ), statesman and diplomat