Ripple, Kent

Historical Description

Ripple, a parish in Kent, near the coast, 2½ miles SW of Deal, and 1 mile from Walmer station on the Dover and Deal Joint railway. It has a post office under Dover; money order office, Deal; telegraph office, Walmer. Acreage, 1021; population, 294. Ripple House. Ripple Court, and Ripple Vale are chief residences. Traces of a Roman entrenchment are a little to the N of the church, and another ancient entrenchment, an oblong of about half an acre, is called Dane Pits. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £150 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1861, is in a mixed style of architecture, chiefly Norman, and has a tower and spire.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ripple from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ripple (St. Mary))

Maps

Online maps of Ripple are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:

• Kent & Sussex Courier
• Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald
• Dover Express
• Kentish Gazette
• Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald
• Kentish Chronicle
• Maidstone Telegraph

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.