Ruddington

Coordinates: 52°53′32″N 1°09′00″W / 52.89222°N 1.15000°W / 52.89222; -1.15000
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Ruddington
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Settlements
Ruddington
  • Ruddington Grange
Post townNOTTINGHAM
Postcode districtNG11
Dialling code0115 (921 / 940 / 945 / 984)
PoliceNottinghamshire
FireNottinghamshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament
Websiteruddingtonparishcouncil​.gov.uk
List of places
UK
England
Nottinghamshire
52°53′32″N 1°09′00″W / 52.89222°N 1.15000°W / 52.89222; -1.15000

Ruddington (

twinned with Grenay, France.[4]

The village residents have previously conducted high-profile campaigns in an attempt to retain the rural identity as a village and prevent it being subsumed into the adjoining suburban village of Clifton and town of West Bridgford. It maintains this through a variety of local amenities such as several shops, schools, public houses, community centre, village hall and churches within the village centre.[5]

Settlements

There are 2 urban areas, and a former village within the parish borders. These areas are considered to be within the regional Greater Nottingham conurbation due to their close proximity to the city.

Ruddington Village

The core built up area is about a mile in diameter. The B680 road from

Grade II listed buildings of note - St Peter's Church, period knitters workshops and cottages, as well as a phone kiosk
feature amongst them.

Ruddington Grange

This is a mainly residential hamlet of around 200 residents which lies half-mile to the north of the village. It is split into two parts by the A60 road and the Grange manor house surrounding grounds, this having been redeveloped in 1988

IT
organisation, and nearby Mickleborough Hill.

Flawford

Also known as Flawforth, this is a 'lost village' once located where present-day Flawforth Lane changes direction at a

no through road
(Flawforth Ave), the placename variations live on in the names of present-day nearby farms.

Parish

The civil parish covers a wider area than the settlements, and is geographically characterised by much low-lying terrain used for farmland. The land is generally 30–40 m (98–131 ft) above sea level, extending from the flat Ruddington Moor area in the south, to the elevated Grange area which contains Mickleborough Hill, the highest point at 70 m (230 ft).

Administratively, Ruddington Parish Council manage the area as the

first tier of local government, Rushcliffe Borough Council and Nottinghamshire County Council
providing successively higher level services.

Rushcliffe Country Park, an area developed on the now decommissioned Ruddington Depot,[8] along with the Ruddington Fields Business Park which hosts several national businesses, both lay to the south of the main village. Other industrial sectors include units in the north of the Manor Park area and the Artex head office on the southern edge of the Wheatley Fields housing development.

Fairham Brook forms the south and west boundaries of the parish, meeting the Nottingham city border before flowing under the Fairham Bridge which links Ruddington and Clifton. Its subsidiary stream Packman Dyke becomes the border for a short distance, before meeting the former Great Central Railway track alignment which becomes the boundary in the north western corner of the parish, Wilwell Farm Cutting Nature Reserve[9] creates a brief deviation with a line of trees before the GCR route meets the existing NET tram route by the A52 trunk road. The north parish border runs alongside the A52 easterly before diverting at Lings Bar roundabout, mirroring Flawforth Lane to the historical St. Peter's church site before branching off south of Crockhill Wood, meeting and tracing the A60 road briefly, then following a private farm road to the south of the business park and along farm plots and reaching Fairham Brook at Ruddington Moor.

Edwalton to the north east; Tollerton and Plumtree to the east; and Keyworth
to the south east.

History

There is evidence of occupation in the area during the Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC). The toponym "Ruddington" comes from Old English and means "the estate of the people of Rudda".

In the Domesday Book in AD 1086, Ruddington's population entry recorded around 250 people.[10] Most were involved in agriculture and this way of life changed little for many hundreds of years, the population marginally increasing by the 17th century to only approximately 320. Open field lands were reallocated amongst the inhabitants in 1767.

There are 1st century Roman remains of a large villa at Flawford. The first known St. Peter's church dates from the 9th century and was built over the foundations of the villa,[11] this was a shared church also catering to the nearby villages of Edwalton, Plumtree and Keyworth. Alabaster church effigy pieces were found here in 1779 and are presently kept at the Nottingham Castle Museum.[12][13]

St Mary's was first established in Ruddington village as a manor chapel in around 1292-94 attached to the adjacent manor house (now the Hermitage), the lord of the manor at the time overseeing the building. It was eventually renamed as St Peter's Church after the Flawford church, due to disrepair, was pulled down in 1773–79.[14]

Ruddington's association with the knitting industry had begun by the start of the 19th century after the invention of the knitting frame in Nottinghamshire. The industry attracted new inhabitants and the population grew to 2,500 during this time as an associated extension to lace manufacture. New houses and frameshops, including the site occupied by the present-day Ruddington Framework Knitters Museum (see the Museums section below) were built to provide homes and workspace for the knitters and families. The 1851 census showed that half of the heads of households in the village were involved in the occupation.[15] Framework knitting in the village declined towards the end of the 19th century as steam-powered machines developed and factories provided large-scale competition to the manual methods still being employed by the villagers.

Charles Paget, local Nottingham MP, in 1828 built the Ruddington Grange manor house,[16] which established the hamlet of the same name.

White's Directory in 1853 records George Augustus Parkyns, as the principal owner, and lord of the manor of Ruddington.[17]

Ruddington Hall was built in 1860, by Thomas Cross from Bolton who was a banker and

Justice of the Peace, he owned it until his death in 1879.[18] In 1880 an American merchant, Philo Laos Mills. purchased and resided at the hall. He was appointed High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1897. It was a hospital during the Second World War
until 1980, when it was bought and converted into offices, and is in use today as the head office for a local business.

The Village Hall was constructed between 1912 and 1913 to the designs of the architect William Herbert Higginbottom.[19] The Misses Paget gave £800 of the £1,100 (equivalent to £115,900 in 2021)[20] construction cost.[21]

Sellors' Playing Field was gifted to the village via the parish council in 1947 by Frederick Sellors, the annual Wakes Funfair being held on the site since 1968.[22]

Ruddington expanded further between the wars and after as new housing estates were built at the edge of the village. The Ordnance Supply and Disposal Depot opened at the start of World War II and occupied a large area on the southern outskirts of the village. The depot closed in the 1980s and the site was redeveloped in 1993 into Rushcliffe Country Park and Ruddington Fields Business Park.

Nearby places

Railway station

Nottingham Heritage Railway
Museums entry below).

Bus services

Bus services in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire
Bus operator Line Destination(s) Notes
Nottingham City Transport 3
Clifton
(Farnborough Road, Southchurch Drive, Crusader Island)		 [23]
10
Railway Station → Trent Bridge → Loughborough Road → Wilford Hill
→ Ruddington		 [24]
10C
Railway Station → Trent Bridge → Loughborough Road → Wilford Hill → Ruddington → Rushcliffe Country Park
 [25]
10X
Railway Station → Trent Bridge → Loughborough Road → Wilford Hill
→ Ruddington (Ruddington Business Park)		 [26]
Kinchbus 9 Nottingham → West Bridgford → Ruddington (Ruddington Business Park) → Bunny → Costock → Rempstone → Loughborough [27]

Museums

Stocking Frame at Ruddington Framework Knitters' Museum

Ruddington is notable for being the home of three museums.

The Ruddington Village Museum
features authentic
Edwardian
era, all rebuilt part by part inside the building, which was previously the Ruddington Infant and Girls' School.
The Ruddington Framework Knitters' Museum
is a unique complex of listed frameshops, cottages, and outbuildings arranged around a garden courtyard, together with a former chapel. The site has been restored to show the working and living conditions of the framework knitters who occupied it throughout the nineteenth century, and is one of the few places in Britain where you can see a working Framework Knitting machine.
Nottingham Heritage Railway
is next to
Leicester North, known as the Loughborough Gap

Notable people

Further information: Category:People from Ruddington

See also

References

  1. ^
    Office for National Statistics
    . Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  2. ^
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  3. Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics
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  4. ^ "Twinning: opportunity knocks? | Ruddington Parish Council". ruddingtonparishcouncil.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Our Values". Ruddington Village Community Partnership. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Ruddington Conservation area - Rushcliffe Borough Council". rushcliffe.gov.uk. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
  7. ^ "Golf - Ruddington Grange". ruddingtongrange.com. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  8. ISBN 0-903929-10-4
    .
  9. ^ "Wilwell Farm Cutting | Nature Reserves | Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust". www.nottinghamshirewildlife.org. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  10. ^ Powell-Smith, Anna. "Ruddington | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  11. ^ "Saxon Church". flawford.org.uk. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  12. ^ "Unearthed at a Lost Village | Alabaster at Flawford | Flawford | Notts Places | Our Nottinghamshire". www.ournottinghamshire.org.uk.
  13. ^ "Alabaster | Nottingham Castle". www.nottinghamcastle.org.uk. 9 March 2020.
  14. ^ "Ruddington - History". southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  15. ^ "About Framework Knitters Nottingham". The Framework Knitters Museum Nottingham. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  16. ^ "Charles Paget MP". www.stuffynwood.com. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  17. ^ "GENUKI: White's Directory 1853 - Ruddington, NTT". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  18. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/46857. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  19. ^ "W H Higginbottom and James Shirtcliff". Arnold Local History Group. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  20. ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  21. ^ "New Village Hall. Interesting Ceremony at Ruddington". Nottingham Evening Post. England. 16 November 1912. Retrieved 25 June 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  22. ^ Benwell, Ricky (19 May 2023). "About Ruddington Village, Nottinghamshire". Benwell Daykin.
  23. ^ "Navy Line Nottingham > Clifton (Nottingham)". www.nctx.co.uk. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014.
  24. ^ "Service 10 on Green Line - City > Train Station > Trent Bridge > Loughborough Road > Wilford Hill > Ruddington". www.nctx.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 October 2014.
  25. ^ "Service 10C on Green Line - City > Railway Station > Trent Bridge > Loughborough Road > Wilford Hill > Ruddington > Rushcliffe Country Park and Great Central Railway Nottingham". Archived from the original on 25 May 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  26. ^ "Service 10X on Green Line - City > Train Station > Trent Bridge > Loughborough Road > Wilford Hill > Ruddington Business Park". www.nctx.co.uk. Archived from the original on 21 January 2016.
  27. ^ "Welcome - Kinchbus 9 - operated by Kinchbus".

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