Ripley is a tithing, and in 1878 was formed into an ecclesiastical parish; it is on the high road from Portsmouth to London, 21 miles from the latter and 5 south-east from Woking station and 3 ¾ from Horsley station on the Surbiton and Guildford branch of the South Western railway. The church of St. Mary the Virgin, rebuilt, with the exception of the chancel, in 1846 on the site of the old church, is an edifice of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, a south aisle, added by subscription in 1869, north porch and a turret containing one bell: there, are 430 sittings, 400 being free. The register dates from the year 1653. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £160, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Onslow, and held since 1879 by the Rev. Henry Hooper M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. A fair is held here on the 22nd of July. Dunsborough is the seat of Major Pitcairn Onslow J.P.; Ripley Court, of William Wainwright esq.; and Ripley House that of Miss Pigott. The principal landowners are the Earl of Onslow and the Earl of Lovelace. The soil is light and sandy; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are corn and roots. The population in 1871 was 952, and in 1881, 1,046.