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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 363 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RIPLEY  , a

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market
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town in the
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Ilkeston
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parliamentary
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division of
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Derbyshire,
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England, ro m . N. by E. of
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Derby, on a
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branch of the Midland railway . Pop. of
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urban
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district (1901) 10,111 . It lies on high ground between the valleys of the
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Derwent and the Erewash . In the neighbourhood there are extensive collieries, and
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coke is largely manufactured . Besides
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iron foundries, blast furnaces and
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boiler
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works, the town possesses
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silk and
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cotton
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mills . The
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charter for the market was granted by
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Henry III . The district has a large
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industrial
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population . To the
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west of Ripley lies the township of HEAGE (pop . 2889) .

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