Description
Ripple, a parish in Kent, near the coast, 2 1/2 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.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
