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RIPLEY, a small town, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Belper district, Derbyshire. The town standsat the terminus of the Derby, Little Eaton, and Ripley railway, near the Cromford canal, 10 miles N N E of Derby; is well-built; carries on extensive trade in connexionwith neighbouring collieries, the Butterley iron-works, and an establishment for silk and cotton manufacture; and has a post-office‡ under Derby, a railway station, a banking office, two chief inns, a church, five dissenting chapels, a school-church, two national schools, aweekly market on Saturday, and fairs on Easter-Wednesday, 23 Oct., and 5 Nov. The church was built in 1821, restored in 1861, and improved in 1868. The chapelry contains also the hamlets of Butterley, Hartshay, Marehay, Greenwich, and Green-Hillocks; and is in Pentrich parish. Acres, 2, 164. Real property, £35, 860; of which £17, 858 are in mines, and £7, 647 in iron-works. Pop. in 1851, 3,071; in 1861, 5, 244. Houses, 1,050. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to J. Woolley, Esq., and the executors of the late J.Topham, Esq. Butterley Hall is the seat of Major Jessop. A branch of the Erewash Valley railway comes to Butterley works. Zinc smelting is carried on at Hartshay. Roman coins were found in 1730. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £300.* Patron, F. Wright, Esq.—The sub-district contains also the rest of Pentrich parish, all South Wingfield parish, and parts of two others. Pop. in 1851, 9, 489; in 1861, 12, 185. Houses, 2, 510.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a small town, a chapelry, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Ripley CP/Ch Belper RegD/PLU Derbyshire AncC |
| Place: | Ripley |
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