Radcliffe on Trent and Cropwell Butler parishes

Cropwell Butler is a village and

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in the

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Rushcliffe Rushcliffe is a local government district with borough status in Nottinghamshire, England. The population of the Local Authority at the 2011 Census was 111,129. Its councilRushcliffe Borough CouncilA46, under the NG12 postcode. It shares a parish council with

Tithby Tithby (sometimes spelt "Tythby", locally pronounced "Tidby") is an English village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, about south of the market town of Bingham. The civil parishes of Tithby and Wiverton Hall have a joint annual pari ...

and is adjacent to the south to

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Location and governance

The civil parish population recorded in the 2011 Census was 585. Some of the newly built

Upper Saxondale Upper Saxondale is a residential area mainly in the parish of Radcliffe on Trent, in the Nottinghamshire borough of Rushcliffe. A section falls within the parish of Cropwell Butler. It lies in an upland area between the River Trent and the Vale o ...

residential area also falls within the parish boundary. Cropwell Butler shares with Tithby a parish council that meets once a month. The village forms part of the Cropwell Ward of the Borough of

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. The county authority is

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Historical events

A post

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at Cropwell Butler () was blown down in 1837. The miller escaped, but with severe bruising, by hiding in a hollow place under a beam. During the

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, German bombers left a trail of devastation across the Nottingham area on the night of 8–9 May 1941, when 95 aircraft attacked the city at 12.37 am. Among the documents now held at the Notts Archives Offices is a detailed map of the city showing the sites the Germans intended to target, which included a gas works, electricity plants, railways, the

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and some chemical factories. In reality, some of the

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crews were deflected by a

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at Cropwell Butler – waste land deliberately set alight to lure them away from key targets. So some of them bombed the

Vale of Belvoir The Vale of Belvoir ( ) covers adjacent areas of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, England. The name derives from the Norman-French for "beautiful view" and dates back to Norman times. Extent and geology The vale is a tract ...

by mistake, thinking it was Nottingham and killing only livestock.

Amenities

The village has a pub, ''The Plough Inn'' in Main Street, which also serves meals. This and the Village Hall and Sheldon Field are the only remaining public facilities in what is a small and quiet village. The post office and the few independent shops fell to a housing development, Carpenters Close, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. There is neither a school nor an Anglican church in the village. The

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chapel has regular services on the first, third and fourth Sundays of each month.

Transport

Cropwell Butler has hourly daytime buses on weekdays to Nottingham (No. 33, CT4N) and to Bingham (No. 833. Vectare). The nearest railway stations are

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(2.6 miles, 4.2 km) and Bingham (3.4 miles, 5.5 km), both on the Nottingham–Grantham–Skegness line.

Sports

The Sheldon Field provides the pitch for a number of football teams in the East Midlands Public Authorities Amateur League (EMPAL). Both Butler-Benfica FC (Cropwell Butler)Retrieved 10 December 2019.
/ref> and Chequers Rangers United (Cropwell Bishop) play at the Sheldon Field on Sunday mornings.

References

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