Ragnall is a village and
civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. At the time of the 2001 census it had a population of 102, increasing to 146 at the 2011 census. It is located on the
A57 road one mile west of the
River Trent. The parish church of St Leonard was extensively rebuilt in 1864–67. Ragnall Hall at the south end of the village is a 19th-century replacement of an early 17th-century hall, the main parts of the earlier hall surviving as barns.
The village is recorded in the ''
Domesday Book'' of 1086 as ''Ragenehil''. The name is derived from two elements: one is the
Old Scandinavian personal name ''Ragni''; the other element is the
Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
''hyll'', meaning "hill". Thus, ''Ragenehil'' represents "Hill of a man called Ragni
The hamlet of Fledborough is one mile south of Ragnall. The
St Gregory's Church, Fledborough, church of St Gregory at Fledborough has some 14th-century stained glass in the east window of the north aisle, restored in 1852–57.
[Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1979. ''The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire''. pp 128–129. Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin.]
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Villages in Nottinghamshire
Bassetlaw District
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