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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Bishops of Ripon, Bishops of Ripon and Leeds, People from Ripon, Charles Longley, Stephen of Ripon, Simon Grayson, Paul Hullah, Ripon Cathedral, William Boyd Carpenter, Ripon Grammar School, Ripon Canal, Derek Kevan, Skipton and Ripon, Russell Mills, A61 road, David Young, Naomi Jacob, Great St. Wilfrid Stakes, Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, David George Kendall, Ripon by-election, 1973, Edward Gawler Prior, John Packer, Econ Engineering, Diocese of Ripon and Leeds, Paul Grayson, Edmund Ayrton, George Armitage Chase, John Proud, John Moorman, Michael J. C. Gordon, Thomas Drury, Thomas Strong, William Gibson, Geoffrey Lunt, Anthony Burton, John Burton, George Atkinson, Ripon College, Robert Bickersteth, Edward Arthur Burroughs, Stuart Hetley Price, Wilfred Walter, Peter Squires, Liberty of Ripon, Treaty of Ripon, Ripon Racecourse, Jon Iles, John Waring, John Ashmore, Robert Ledger, John Inglis, Peter Atkinson, Geoffry Tattersall. Excerpt: Ripon is a cathedral city, market town and successor parish in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, located at the confluence of two streams of the River Ure in the form of the Laver and Skell. The city is noted for its main feature the Ripon Cathedral which is architecturally significant, as well as the Ripon Racecourse and other features such as its market. The city itself is just over 1,300 years old. It is one of only two cities in North Yorkshire, the other being York. The city was originally known as Inhrypum and was founded by Saint Wilfrid during the time of Angle kingdom Northumbria, a period during which it enjoyed prominence in terms of religious importance in Great Britain. After a period of Viking control, it passed to the Cerdic dynasty who unified England and then the Normans who destroyed much of the city. After a brief period of building projects under t...
