Ripple is a village in Kent

Kent

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, England

England

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. It is also known as Ripple Vale. John French, 1st Earl of Ypres

John French, 1st Earl of Ypres

Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, ADC, PC , known as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a British and Anglo-Irish officer...

, the commander of the first British Expeditionary Force was born there in 1852, and is buried at the village church. His sister Charlotte Despard

Charlotte Despard

Charlotte Despard was a British-born, later Irish-based suffragist, novelist and Sinn Féin activist....

, the suffragist, novelist and Sinn Féin activist was also born in Ripple in 1844.

The Ripple Primary School has approximately 40 students attending. The village has one local pub, The Plough, a traditional English Ale-House. There is a windmill

Ripple Mill, Ringwould

Ripple Windmill is a Grade II listed Smock mill in Ringwould, Kent, England that was built in Drellingore and moved to Ringwould in the early nineteenth century...

, which is being restored.