Ripley

Ripley, (1) a town of Derbyshire, 10 miles NNE. of Derby, with silk-lace manufactures and large neighbouring collieries and ironworks. Pop. (1851) 3071; (1891) 6815.—(2) A pretty village in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on the Nidd, $3\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ miles NNW. of Harrogate. Rebuilt in 1829–30, it has an hôtel-de-ville (1854), an interesting church, and Ripley Castle (1555), where Cromwell is said to have slept the night before Marston Moor. Pop. 291.