Ripple (Kent)
| Ripple | ||||
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 The Plow Inn |
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| Basic data | ||||
| status | Village and Civil Parish | |||
| surface | 5.20 km² | |||
| population | 372 (as of 2011) | |||
| Ceremony county | Kent | |||
| District | Dover District | |||
| Constituency | Dover | |||
| Website: www.ripplepc.kentparishes.gov.uk | ||||
Ripple , also Ripple Vale, is an English village and a civil parish with 372 inhabitants (as of 2011) in the Dover District in eastern Kent .
British Field Marshal John French, 1st Earl of Ypres was born here in 1852. He was commander of the first British Expeditionary Force in the First World War . His ashes were buried near the village church. His sister Charlotte Despard was born in Ripple in 1844. The suffragette and writer was a founding member of the Women's Freedom League in 1907.
The Ripple Primary School was closed in 2007 due to insufficient student numbers. With The Plow Inn is a located pub in the town. A restored windmill, the Ripple Mill, is worth seeing .
Web links
Commons : Ripple, Kent - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish population 2011 . Retrieved October 4, 2015.
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ' N , 1 ° 21' E