Editing Ripponden (section)

==Notable people==
* [[James Walton (inventor)|James Walton]], inventor and industrialist, born in Ripponden in 1803.<ref>{{cite news |title=Newtown. The Late Mr. James Walton |work=Shrewsbury Chronicle |date=30 November 1883 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000401/18831130/169/0009}}</ref>
* [[Norman Bottomley|Sir Norman Howard Bottomley]], [[Air Chief Marshal]] of the [[RAF]] and Commander-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command in 1945, was born in Ripponden in 1891.<ref>{{cite web|title=1933 Who's Who in British Aviation: Name B|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/1933_Who%27s_Who_in_British_Aviation:_Name_B|website=gracesguide.co.uk|access-date=22 June 2017}}</ref>
* Nobel Prize–winning American physicist Prof [[Richard Feynman]] was a regular visitor to the village in the 1960s–1980s, with his third wife Gweneth Howarth, who was born locally. He also spent significant time in nearby Mill Bank.<ref>{{cite book |title=Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman |first= Richard P. |last=Feynman  |author-link=Richard Feynman |publisher=Basic Books |year=2005 |isbn=978-0465023714 |  url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfectly-Reasonable-Deviations-Beaten-Track/dp/0465023711/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434824349&sr=8-1&keywords=perfectly+reasonable}}</ref>