[2] Ripple parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin; the village pub is The Plough.

The church was rebuilt in 1861; is in a mixed style, chiefly Norman; and has a tower and spire.

[5] The Roman earthworks were dug (near the site of the present church) during the invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar’s army which landed in Deal and camped here in 55BC.

John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, the commander of the first British Expeditionary Force in World War I was born there in 1852, and is buried at the village church.

His sister Charlotte Despard, the suffragist, novelist and Sinn Féin activist, also lived in Ripple.

Males are seen to have the highest number of people working in agriculture at 40 in comparison to females which had none recorded doing this job.

The number of people with unknown occupations was higher for females at 51 compared to males at just 4 people, with it not being the social normality for women to have occupations in this decade which stems to the century of the Victorians, where many women had to stay at home to look after the children while the men went to work, for example on the farms.

The most common occupation for women that is officially titled was domestic service or offices, which could be considered to be a stereotypical job compared to others, with the tradition of women being subjected to housework and maternal duties naturally when getting married or being of a younger age to help out their mothers.

Ripplevale School, which teaches the National Curriculum, states in its brochure that it caters especially for pupils with special needs and autism within small classes, and provides for The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, Outward Bound, college-based training, and for contact with small animals in a smallholding.