I'm not sure I understand what the problem is. FindMyPast have images of the original cathedral burial register, and this records a burial in 1826. In most cases a burial entry is all we'll ever find to tell us where someone is buried.
Some graves have memorials, but by no means all, and some of these have been transcribed by family or local history societies, or contributors to sites like Findagrave.
Some churches have plans and reference numbers to identify graves, and these might appear in registers, but in my experience only a small proportion of churches do.
In the absence of a plan or memorial identifying an individual's burial plot, all you can do is make a best guess: might they be in a family member's grave that's easier to identify? Or from the dates on stones that do exist, can you work out which bit of the churchyard was being used for burials on that particular date?
But in many (most?) cases, the burial register entry is as good as it gets.
(Ripon is admittedly a bit complicated in that the parish included a lot of townships with their own churches. Some of these had their own registers, but with others, for some dates at least, entries were included in the cathedral registers. However, in such cases the entries will usually make clear where a burial took place.)