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* 1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
* 1640 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.
* February 28 – The Republican Party ( United States ) is founded in Ripon, Wisconsin.
* October 26 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of Scotland, England and Ireland.
Above the main portal there is generally a large window, like that at York Minster, or a group of windows such as those at Ripon Cathedral.
Fountains Abbey is approximately three miles south west of Ripon in North Yorkshire, England near to the village of Aldfield.
RTD Hopper is a public bus service connecting Ripon, Escalon, Manteca, Lathrop, Thornton, Woodbridge, Acampo, Morada, and Linden to Stockton, Tracy, and Lodi.
Several towns in Stanislaus and other counties along the Stanislaus River, including Turlock, Valley Home, and Ripon, were founded and settled by immigrants from Danish, Dutch, German-speaking areas where Stanislaus is a typical surname and masculine given name, and like Estanislao, a variation of Stanley.
Eahlfrith had been brought up with Irish-Northumbrian usages, and his rejection of these, along with the expulsion of the future saints Cuthbert of Lindisfarne and Eata of Hexham from Ripon, is considered to have had a strong political component.
The first source, the Life of Wilfrid, is a hagiographic work written by Stephen of Ripon, often identified as Eddius Stephanus, probably soon after 710.
It is worth noting that the misericords were probably carved by the Ripon school of carvers, and bear a strong family resemblance to those at Manchester Cathedral and Ripon Cathedral.
Stephen of Ripon is the author of the eighth-century Vita Sancti Wilfrithi (" Life of Saint Wilfrid ").
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.
Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Ripon is the fourth smallest city in England.
As well as its racecourse and cathedral, Ripon is a tourist destination due to its close proximity to the UNESCO World Heritage Site the Studley Royal Park and Fountains Abbey.
During its pre-history the area which later became Ripon was under the control of Brythonic tribe the Brigantes, and three miles ( 5 km ) north at Hutton Moor there is a large circular earthwork created by them.
Ripon is thought to have shrunk to a small community around the church following the suppression, which resulted in the death of approximately one-third of the population of the North of England.
Although it is now governed by Harrogate Borough Council, Ripon also became a successor parish with a parish council of its own called Ripon City Council.
The canal is a " wide " navigation, meaning that its locks are wide enough for wide-beamed boats, but its shortest locks are amongst the shortest on the connected network of English and Welsh inland waterways, with only the Ripon Canal having locks of a similarly restricted length.

Ripon and cathedral
This led to the unusual position of Ripon, with the diocese cathedral, having city status whilst the rapidly expanding conurbation of Leeds-in the same diocese-did not.
Leeds has no Anglican cathedral, so the Parish church acts as a second base in the diocese, after Ripon Cathedral.
In the case of York the collegiate churches of Beverley, Ripon and Southwell were almost in the same position, but although the archbishop had a stall in each he had no diocesan cathedra in them, and the chapters were not united with that of the metropolitan church in the direct government of the diocese, or the election of the archbishop, nor had they those other rights which were held to denote the cathedral character of a church.
Ripon, named for the English cathedral city of Ripon, North Yorkshire, was founded in 1849 by David P. Mapes, a former New York steamboat captain.
The minster finally became a cathedral ( the church where the Bishop has his cathedra or throne ) in 1836, the focal point of the newly created Anglican Diocese of Riponthe first to be established since the Reformation.
More recently, where a cathedral is in a small or little-known city, the diocesan name has been changed to include the name of a nearby larger city: thus the cathedral in Ripon now serves the diocese of Ripon and Leeds, and Southwell Cathedral is in Southwell and Nottingham.
Originally in the Diocese of York, the church was in the Diocese of Ripon before becoming a cathedral in 1919, when the Diocese of Bradford was created.

Ripon and city
Ripon Town Council assumed that this had elevated the town to the rank of a city, and started referring to itself as the City and Borough of Ripon.
This eventually forced Ripon to regularise its position ; its city status was recognised by Act of Parliament in 1865.
Jervaulx Abbey in East Witton near the city of Ripon, was one of the great Cistercian abbeys of Yorkshire, England, founded in 1156.
Ripon is a city in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States.
The city is surrounded by the Town of Ripon.
Chichester, although in terms of local government in England is a civil parish, has the status of a city, and is one of six so designated, the others being Ely, Hereford, Ripon, Truro and Wells.
Ripon Cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds and the mother church of the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds, situated in the small North Yorkshire city of Ripon, England.
In England, there are currently eight parishes with city status, all places with long-established Anglican cathedrals: Chichester, Ely, Hereford, Lichfield, Ripon, Salisbury, Truro and Wells.
Since 1999, the see has been called the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds, reflecting the growing importance of Leeds, the largest city within the diocese and one of the fastest-growing cities in Britain.
Ripon is a city in North Yorkshire, England.

Ripon and market
He also designed the obelisk in Ripon market place, erected in 1702, at 80 feet in height it was the first large scale obelisk to be erected in Britain.
Local bus services to and from York, Ripon and Northallerton and nearby villages and long distance National Express Coaches call at the bus stop in the market place.

Ripon and town
The last three Saxon archbishops of York helped Beverley to develop, via the rise in prominence of Beverley Minster and the town in general ; along with York itself, Ripon and Southwell, Beverley became one of the most important Christian centres of Northern England.
Ripon had a wakeman to make sure the residents were safely home by curfew and law and order was maintained, yet it was forced to pay 1, 000 marks to the Scots to prevent them from burning down the town on one occasion.
During the Middle Ages, Ripon was governed by a wakeman and aldermen ; known as the twelve keepers they oversaw the general running of the town and the maintenance of law and order.
The Reform Act of 1885 abolished the borough of Ripon, but the county constituency in which the town was placed as a result was named Ripon, and this continued as a single member constituency, albeit with some boundary changes, until it was abolished before the 1983 general election.
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Ripon is a town in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States.
His orders were to meet up with the royal army, but while stopping at the town of Ripon in Yorkshire, he received intelligence that Lancaster would arrive at nearby Boroughbridge the next day.
The main road through the town is the A61, connecting Harrogate to Leeds and Ripon.
The town of Harrogate on its own had a population of 71, 594 at the 2001 UK census ; the urban area comprising Harrogate and nearby Knaresborough had a population of 85, 128, while the figure for the much wider Borough of Harrogate, comprising Harrogate, Knaresborough, Ripon and a large rural area, was 151, 339.
Heading south, the road begins as single carriageway which bypasses Ripon and onto Harrogate town centre.
The Corporation of Chennai's Ripon Building was named for him, as well as the town of Riponpet in the Shivamogga district in the state of Karnataka.
Also, the main road running through the town is the A61, connecting Thirsk to Ripon.
In Harrogate it meets the A61 Ripon Road, and continues through the suburbs of the town, avoiding the centre.
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* Ripon ( town ), Wisconsin
The first informal meeting of the party took place in Ripon, Wisconsin, a small town northwest of Milwaukee, WI.
On 28 July 1862, John Hanning Speke, an explorer for the Royal Geographical Society, arrived at Ripon Falls, near the site of the modern town of Jinja, where the Victoria Nile spills out of Lake Victoria and begins its descent to Egypt.
The town was named after Ripon in North Yorkshire, England.

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