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Rushcliffe Wapentake
Rushcliffe was a wapentake (administrative area, equivalent to a hundred) of the historic county of Nottinghamshire, England. It was in the south of the county, on the south side of the River Trent, covering the parishes of Barton in Fabis, Bradmore, Bunny, Clifton with Glapton, Costock, East Leake, Edwalton, Gotham, Keyworth, Kingston on Soar, Normanton on Soar, Plumtree, Ratcliffe on Soar, Rempstone, Ruddington, Stanford on Soar, Stanton-on-the-Wolds, Sutton Bonington, Thorpe in the Glebe, Thrumpton, West Leake, Widmerpool, Wilford, Willoughby on the Wolds and Wysall. Contained within the boundaries of the wapentake is the western part of the current Rushcliffe Borough and a small area of the City of Nottingham around Clifton. Etymology Rushcliffe means "cliff where brushwood grows", from Old English ''hris'' "brushwood" and clif "cliff". The name was recorded as Riselclif in an undated source Source may refer to: Research * Historical document * Historical source * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottinghamshire Administrative Map 1832
Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated ''Notts.'') is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. The county is bordered by South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The largest settlement is the city of Nottingham (323,632), which is also the county town. The county has an area of and a population of 1,154,195. The latter is concentrated in the Nottingham Urban Area, Nottingham built-up area in the south-west, which extends into Derbyshire and has a population of 729,997. The north-east of the county is more rural, and contains the towns of Worksop (44,733) and Newark-on-Trent (27,700). For Local government in England, local government purposes Nottinghamshire comprises a non-metropolitan county, with seven districts, and the Nottingham Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area. The East Midlands Combined County Authority includes Nottinghamshire County Council and Nottingham City Council. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingston On Soar
Kingston on Soar is a Village#United Kingdom, village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England. Description Setting Kingston on Soar predominantly lies within the Trent Washlands character area, and partially in the Nottinghamshire Wolds character area. White's Directory of Nottinghamshire, written in 1853, describes Kingston on Soar as such:Kingston-Upon-Soar is a small village and parish 10 miles south west by south of Nottingham, betwixt the Wolds and the Leicestershire border.John Throsby, writing during 1790 in his new edition of Robert Thoroton, Robert Thoroton's Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, describes Kingston on Soar such:This Lordship contains 1100 acres of old inclosed land, divided into 3 farms, exclusive of some patches of home ground, attached to some inferior dwellings: It belongs chiefly to the Duke of ''Leeds'', who is lord of the manor. [...] The village contains about 30 dwellings. Local geograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilford
Wilford is a village and former civil parish in the Nottingham district in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire, England. The village is to the northeast of Clifton, Nottinghamshire, Clifton, southwest of West Bridgford, northwest of Ruddington and southwest of Nottingham city centre. It is at a meander of the River Trent. History Civil parish In 1891 the parish had a population of 2769. In 1894 the parish was abolished and split to form North Wilford and South Wilford. Early settlements Remains of a paved Roman ford, bordered by oak posts, were found in the Trent at Wilford in 1900. The settlement is named as ''Willesforde'' in Domesday Book, owned by William Pevrel of Nottingham Castle, who also owned the lands of nearby Clifton, Nottinghamshire, Clifton. It had a fishery, a priest and 23 Soke (legal), sokemen. The land passed to the Clifton family in the 13th Century. Development Wilford retained its identity as a village until the later 19th century. Surrou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Widmerpool
Widmerpool is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, about 10 miles south-south-east of Nottingham and some 7.5 miles north-east of Loughborough. It is one of Nottinghamshire's oldest settlements and is just over a mile west of the A46 (the Fosse Way). Extensive dual carriageway road works along the A46 have now been completed. At the time of the 2001 census it had a population of 262, increasing to 339 at the 2011 census, and falling slightly to 327 residents at the 2021 census. Until the 1960s there had not been any building in the village for 100 years. Widmerpool is also the surname of a disreputable character in Anthony Powell's twelve-volume sequence of novels ''A Dance to the Music of Time''. The connexion between the village and the character can be explored at Kenneth Widmerpool. History The history of the village is intrinsically linked to that of the family of the manor. A manor house is thought to have been present since Henricus de Diddisworth adopt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Leake
West Leake () is a small conservation Village#United Kingdom, village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire. Description Setting The parish of West Leake is in total. The neighbouring parishes include Gotham, Nottinghamshire, Gotham, to the north; East Leake, to the east; Normanton on Soar and Sutton Bonington, to the south; and Kingston on Soar, to the west. The Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan for West Leake, created by Rushcliffe Borough Council, describes the setting of the village as follows:West Leake sits on the winding country road from East Leake to Sutton Bonington and has a very simple plan of one main street. It enjoys a unity of form and has a rural feel to it. The village is surrounded by agricultural land, with the village of Sutton Bonington further to the west and East Leake to the East. Further to the south is the A6006 which links the village to the main arterial routes the A60 and the A6.Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thrumpton
Thrumpton is a Village#United Kingdom, village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. At the time of the 2001 United Kingdom census, 2001 census it had a population of 152, increasing to 165 at the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 census, and 178 at the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census. It is located on the A453 road south-west of West Bridgford. The 13th century All Saints' Church, Thrumpton, Church of All Saints is Grade II* listed building, listed and was restored in 1871. Many of the gabled brick houses in the village were built between 1700 and 1745 by John Emerton of Thrumpton Hall.Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1979. ''The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire''. pp. 353–354.Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin. See also *Listed buildings in Thrumpton References External links Villages in Nottinghamshire Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire Rushcliffe {{Nottinghamshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorpe In The Glebe
Thorpe in the Glebe was a village in Nottinghamshire, England to the south of Wysall on the Leicestershire border. It was sometimes called Thorpe in the Clottes. Tradition has it that the village was destroyed either at the Battle of Willoughby Field or alternatively by a hail-storm. However, at the time of the English Civil War, there had been no village at Thorpe in the Glebe for nearly 200 years. The area is now a civil parish of the same name with an overwhelmingly rural area with scattered farms. It reported a resident population of 22 people at the 2021 census. History The placename is from the Danish word 'torp', which was a farmstead or ancillary settlement dependent on a larger village, although there are signs the area was formerly populated much earlier with evidence of flint tools and Roman pottery. At the time the Domesday Survey, Thorpe in the Glebe was then known as Thorpe Regis or King's Thorpe and considered to be waste, with no population recorded and un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sutton Bonington
Sutton Bonington () is a village and civil parish lying along the valley of the River Soar in the Borough of Rushcliffe, south-west Nottinghamshire, England. The University of Nottingham has the Sutton Bonington Campus, a site just to the north of the village. The parish covers some Sutton Bonington Local History Society Remember Sutton Bonington and includes the hamlet of Zouch. The population at the 2011 census was 2,202, rising to 2,338 at the 2021 census. The Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanton-on-the-Wolds
Stanton-on-the-Wolds is a small village and a civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. It is situated about 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Nottingham, just off the A606 Nottingham to Melton Mowbray road. It is bordered by several other villages, namely, Clipston-on-the-Wolds, Normanton-on-the-Wolds, Keyworth and Widmerpool. 413 residents within the parish were reported at the 2021 census. History Artefacts from Stanton have been recorded as dating to all three periods of the Stone age: Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic. The oldest was a worked flint core found in 2006 after ditch maintenance west of the stream below Hill Farm. Stanton has had various names: in 1086 it was known as 'Stanture' and as Estanton in 1235. It was known as Stanton Super Wold in 1240-80. According to local history, in the late 18th-century, the village was hit by a freak hailstorm when large stones caused extensive damage and this accounts for the lack of older buildings. War memorial The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanford On Soar
Stanford on Soar, known locally as Stanford, is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire, England near the River Soar. Description Setting Stanford on Soar is located near the River Soar just within the Nottinghamshire side of the Nottinghamshire/Leicestershire boundary. It is around a mile north of Loughborough in Leicestershire. It is the southernmost place within the county of Nottinghamshire. Other nearby places are East Leake, Normanton on Soar and Cotes. White's Directory of Nottinghamshire, written in 1853, describes Stanford as follows:Stanford-On-Soar is a small, picturesque village and parish, one and a half miles north of Loughborough, at the point where the River Soar enters Leicestershire. It has about 140 inhabitants and 1,520 acres of land, all belonging to the Rev. Samuel Dashwood, who is both patron and incumbent of the rectory, and resides in the Hall, a modern mansion, which stands on a commanding eminence, and is surrou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruddington
Ruddington () is a large village in the Borough of Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire, England. The village is south of Nottingham and northwest of Loughborough. It had a population of 6,441 at the United Kingdom census, 2001, 2001 Census, increasing to 7,216 at the United Kingdom census, 2011, 2011 Census and 7,674 in 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021. Ruddington is Twinned cities, twinned with Grenay, Pas-de-Calais, Grenay, France. 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, Nottinghamshire, 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. Settlements There are two urban areas, and a former village within the Civil parish, parish borders. These areas are considered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rempstone
Rempstone is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire, England. It is close to Nottingham, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray and Shepshed as well as the Leicestershire border. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 367, increasing to 412 residents at the 2021 census. It is situated at the crossing of the A60 and A6006 roads and the village is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book. Churches The first church in Rempstone, St Peter in the Rushes, stood approximately half a mile (1 km) north-east of the present village near the Sheepwash Brook, next to a former moated manor house, which is now a pond used for fishing. A holy spring is also at this located at this site. An archaeological dig, which took place between 1960 and 1962, revealed the foundations of a 12th-century tower with square buttresses. Earthworks near the brook indicate the original site of the village. The present church, All Saints' Church, was built mainly fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
