Ripley | |
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Clockwise from top: Ripley Town Hall, All Saints' Church, Grosvenor Road, Former railway line-turned greenway passing through the former railway station site and Midland Railway Heritage Railway | |
Location within Derbyshire | |
Population | 20,176 (2021 Census)[1] |
OS grid reference | SK 39746 50502 |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Areas of the town | List
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Post town | RIPLEY |
Postcode district | DE5 |
Dialling code | 01773 |
Police | Derbyshire |
Fire | Derbyshire |
Ambulance | East Midlands |
UK Parliament | |
Arms of Ripley Town Council | |
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Crest | On a Wreath of the Colours out of a Mural Crown Sable Flames proper issuant therefrom a Unicorn's Head Argent armed and crined Or charged with three Spearheads erect one and two Gules. |
Shield | Vert on a Chevron Or between in chief two Stags' Heads caboshed and in base a Fleur de Lys Argent a Chevronel Sable surmounted by a Tudor Rose barbed and seeded proper all within a Bordure also Argent thereon six Horseshoes also Sable. |
Motto | Ingenium Industria Alitur (Skill Is Fostered By Diligence) |
Granted to the urban district council on 8 April 1954.[2] |
Ripley is a market and industrial town as well as a civil parish in the Amber Valley district of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire, England. It is located to the north-northeast of Derby, northwest of Heanor, southwest of Alfreton and northeast of Belper. The town forms a continuous urban area with Heanor, Eastwood and Ilkeston as part of the wider Nottingham Urban Area.
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