Ripon

Ripon is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, making it one of England's smallest cities with a population of approximately 16,000. The city is centred on a large market square where the ancient custom of the Wakeman blowing a horn at 9pm each evening has been maintained for over a thousand years. Ripon Cathedral, originally founded as a monastery by St Wilfrid in 672 AD, is one of England's oldest churches and contains a Saxon crypt believed to be the oldest intact crypt in England. The city also has connections to the early development of the canal system through the Ripon Canal.