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May 2022
Barclays in Ripon to close despite increase in customers
Barclays bank in Ripon is to close in August even though the amount of counter transactions is going up.
The branch, on Market Place, currently opens four days a week, from Monday to Thursday.
A report explaining the reasons for closure says the number of counter transactions went up in the two years to March 2020.
It added that more than 3,000 customers visited regularly for personal or business banking purposes in the last year.
But only 121 customers use the branch exclusively for banking. Eighty percent of customers also use online and telephone banking.
The report says 41% of Ripon customers also use nearby branches, such as Harrogate and Thirsk.
Barclays, which will close on August 25, is one of five banks currently open in the city alongside HSBC, Halifax, Skipton Building Society and Yorkshire Building Society.
Last year it announced the closure of its Wetherby branch.
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