Outwood Academy Ripon

Outwood Academy Ripon is a small mixed secondary school with academy status situated in the city of Ripon, in North Yorkshire, England. It provides for ages 11 to 18, and has an enrolment of around 700 pupils. The school is operated by Outwood Grange Academies Trust and the current principal is Rachel Donohue. It is one of over 11 secondary schools in the local area, including nearby selective Ripon Grammar School, and the more distant Thirsk School and Sixth Form College and Boroughbridge High School.

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Ripon Grammar School

Ripon Grammar School is a co-educational, boarding and day, selective grammar school in Ripon, North Yorkshire, England. It has been named top-performing state school in the north for ten years running by The Sunday Times. It is one of the best-performing schools in the North of England; in 2011, 91% of pupils gained the equivalent of 5 or more GCSEs at grade C or above, including English and maths; the figure has been over 84% consistently since at least 2006. As a state school, it does not charge fees for pupils to attend, but they must pass an entrance test at 11+ or 13+. There is no selection test for entry into sixth form as pupils are admitted on the basis of their GCSE grades.

River Laver

The River Laver is a tributary of the River Skell, itself a tributary of the River Ure in North Yorkshire, England. The name is of Brittonic origin, from labaro, meaning "talkative", i.e. a babbling brook. The Afon Llafar in Wales shares the same name. The Laver is noted as a fly fishing river, especially for brown trout and grayling.

Clotherholme

Clotherholme is a settlement 2 miles (3.2 km) to the north-west of Ripon in North Yorkshire, England. The village of Clotherholme was mostly depopulated at some unknown time thereafter becoming a very small settlement with a population of just 12 in 1871. The British Army opened up a training camp in the area in 1914 which was named as Claro and Deverell Barracks; these camps are due to close in the late 2020s and are proposed to be redeveloped into a new village with 1300 homes, also called Clotherholme.

Park Street Gazebos

The Park Street Gazebos are a historic structure in Ripon, a city in North Yorkshire, in England. The two gazebos were probably built shortly before 1719, in the garden of a house on Park Street, owned by the Baynes family. They were designed to provide a viewpoint over the surrounding area, and as a banqueting house. Perhaps in the mid 19th century, a wall with a raised walkway was constructed to connect the gazebos, although Historic England describes the wall as being apparently of the same date as the gazebos. The house was later divided into two properties, and the gazebos fell into ruin, the roofs having collapsed. Harrogate Town Council used a compulsory purchase order on the building and restored it in 1986. The building has been grade II* listed since 1949. The gazebos are built of red brick, with stone dressings, and pyramidal pantile roofs with ball finials. They consist of two-storey pavilions with plaster coves, stone bands and rusticated quoins, and a door on the upper storey. Between them is a two-storey gallery, the ground floor with four bays containing semicircular arches with rusticated jambs and voussoirs. The upper floor has a balustrade, and piers with ornamental carving. At the rear are four niches with rusticated surrounds.