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Ripon (City in the West Riding)

a city in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, 22 miles N. W. of York. It is the seat of a bishopric, with notable cathedral and other ecclesiastical buildings. The market-place has a high obelisk and there is an Hiberno-Saxon crypt dating from the missionary period of the 7th century. The industries include iron founding, machine making and malting. The Irish missionaries in Northumbria established there one of the earliest monastic establishments in England, organized in 678 into a see. Pop. about 8,500.