Rudgeway
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Rudgeway is a village in
Etymology
The name Rudgeway refers to a local section of Roman road known as the Ridge Way or Rudge Way which ran through it on the path now followed by the A38.[2] The road started in what is now the Sea Mills area of Bristol, near the present-day site of Sea Mills railway station, and ran in a north-north-easterly direction via the Ridge Way section towards Gloucester.[3] The name of the village has appeared on various documents throughout history as Rugewei (in 1191), Rugweye (1248), Rigweye (1276) and as both Rudgeway and Rudgewaye in 1587.[2]
The village
Rudgeway is located in the parish of
The village contains a small number of listed buildings, including the grade II-listed Old Church Farm. Formerly known as Alveston Manor, it was originally built as a house for the Veel family in the late 16th century and features their coat of arms above the front door along with the year 1634.[5] By the end of the 18th century it was being used as a farmhouse and in 1960 the property was purchased by the aircraft engine manufacturer Bristol Siddeley, who were later purchased by and almagamated into Rolls-Royce Limited. Rolls-Royce used the property as a conference centre and for visitors' accommodation until 2017 when it was bought from them and converted into a hotel.[6]
Within the grounds of Old Church Farm is the ruin of St Helen's Church, which is also grade II-listed. All that remains of the building now is the tower and a portion of the nave wall.[7] The remains of the church are also a scheduled monument.[8]
The neighbouring Pypers estate also has a number of buildings and structures that are all grade II-listed. These include main house itself, originally built in the late 18th century with additions made in the 19th and 20th centuries and built in the classical style,[9] the entrance gates and surrounding piers and walls,[10] and the stables and adjacent wall and piers.[11]
The only other listed building in Rudgeway is the Grade II Tockington Park Farmhouse. Built in the 17th century and extended in the nineteenth, its barn is said to contain a portion of Roman wall.
There is one pub in Rudgeway, The Masons Arms, which lies at the northern edge of the village on the A38 Gloucester Road.[14]
The village was formerly home to Silverhill School, an independent preparatory school now based in Winterbourne. The establishment took its name from Silverhill Brake, the road on which it was located, and was based there from 1949 until 1992.[15] Since 1994 the former school building, known as Silverhill, has been home to a market research and data processing company.[16]
Demographics
The village is split across two
References
- ^ a b "Census Output Area population estimates – South West, England". Office for National Statistics. 25 October 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2020. (figures for Output Areas E00075103 and E00075104)
- ^ ISBN 978-0521049337.
- ^ Margary, Ivan D (1955). "Roman Roads in Britain". Retrieved 13 March 2020 – via saxonhistory.co.uk.
- ^ Google (17 March 2020). "Rudgeway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ Historic England. "Old Church Farmhouse (Grade II) (1321099)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ "About Old Church Farm – A thousand years of history!". Old Church Farm. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ Historic England. "Old Church of St Helen (Grade II) (1128878)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ Historic England. "Ruin of St Helen's Church, Rudgeway (1007011)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ Historic England. "Pypers (Grade II) (1128876)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ Historic England. "ENTRANCE GATES, PIERS AND WALL ABOUT 10 METRES TO NORTH OF PYPERS (Grade II) (1321098)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ Historic England. "STABLES, ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS ABOUT 50 METRES TO WEST OF PYPERS (Grade II) (1128877)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ Historic England. "Tockington Park Farmhouse (Grade II) (1321064)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ "Ebenezer Chapel (now 'Chapel Cottage'), Rudgeway, Alveston". churchdb.gukutils.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ "The Masons Arms". Stonehouse Restaurants. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ "History". Silverhill School and Day Nursery. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ "About Wyman Dillon - Our Company". Wyman Dillon Limited. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ "Boundary Data Selector". UK Data Service. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ "Indices of Deprivation: 2019 and 2015". OpenDataCommunities.org. Retrieved 16 March 2020.