A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
RIPE, Rype, or Eckington, a village and a parish in Lewes district, Sussex. The village stands 2 miles N of Berwick r. station, and 7 E by S of Lewes; and has a post-office, of the name of Ripe, under Hurst-Green. The parish comprises 1, 770 acres-Real property, £3,004. Pop., 358. Houses, 65. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £431.* Patron, Exeter College, Oxford. The church, which has been recently restored, is chiefly early English; and has a decorated E window, and a good tower. ' There is a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Ripe CP/AP Sussex AncC |
| Place names: | ECKINGTON | RIPE | RIPE RYPE OR ECKINGTON | RYPE |
| Place: | Ripe |
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