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Sundown Adventureland is a children's theme park in Rampton, Nottinghamshire, UK. It originally opened as a farmyard in 1968 and is owned by the Rhodes family. [ 1 ] As of 2020, it has over 30 rides and attractions.
Drawing of West Retford House by Thomas Malton in 1770. Alexander Emerson (1710–1745), who inherited the West Retford estate from his relative George Wharton [3] in 1727, built the house in about 1740. He was the son of Alexander Emerson and Alice Wharton of Caister in Lincolnshire. In 1736 he married Elizabeth Bosvile, who was the daughter ...
Gamston is a village and civil parish four miles south of Retford in the English county of Nottinghamshire. The village lies on the A638 road between Retford and the Markham Moor junction with the A1 and the A57 roads. The population of the civil parish as at the 2011 Census was 246, [1] which increased to 253 in 2021. [2]
John Shadrach Piercy was born in Rillington, near Malton, North Yorkshire, and moved to Retford in 1822 to teach at the National School (a school that traditionally had strong links with St Swithun's church) on Grove Street. While living in Retford, Piercy wrote The History of Retford in the County of Nottingham (1828). This is an important ...
The village lies in the north east portion of the Nottinghamshire county and southern area of Bassetlaw district. It is surrounded by the following local areas: Nether Headon and Ladywell Rise to the north; Upton to the south; East Drayton, Woodbeck and Stokeham to the east; Eaton and Gamston to the west.
Rampton is a village in the civil parish of Rampton and Woodbeck, about 6 miles (10 km) east of Retford in the Bassetlaw district, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. The parish is long and thin, extending about 7 miles (11 km) east–west but only about 1 mile (1.6 km) north–south.
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Ordsall is an area and former civil parish in Retford, in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England. The Bassetlaw ward of the same name had a population of 14,194 at the 2011 census. The Bassetlaw ward of the same name had a population of 14,194 at the 2011 census.