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Rufford Lane was closed to through-traffic by Nottinghamshire County Council in December 2022, at a point near to the old mill, using a Traffic Regulation Order (TRO), [7] partly due to having become a spectator-attraction with a regular social media following particularly during flooding, [8] exacerbated by vehicles drawn to the area to create ...
Rufford Abbey is a country estate in Rufford, Nottinghamshire, England, two miles (4 km) south of Ollerton. Originally a Cistercian abbey, it was converted to a country house in the 16th century after King Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries. Part of the house was demolished in the 20th century, but the remains, standing in 150 acres of ...
The grants and charters which created the Liberty of Rufford are known as the Rufford Charters. At the dissolution it possessed a revenue of £254.6.8. The remains of Rufford Abbey have been incorporated into a spacious mansion, situated in a richly-wooded park of 1400 acres; the large hall was altered to its present state in the reign of ...
Rufford is a civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. The parish contains 22 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, one is at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
Rufford Colliery was a coal mine located near Rainworth, a village in Nottinghamshire, England. [1] Its first shafts were sunk in 1911. [ 2 ] In February 1913, fourteen workers at the mine died when a water barrel "containing some tons of water was precipitated down the shaft on to some men who were working at the bottom" of one of shafts. [ 3 ]
View history; Tools. Tools. move to ... Rufford may refer ... England site of Rufford New Hall, Rufford Old Hall and Rufford railway station; Rufford, Nottinghamshire
A charter is a grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified.It is implicit that the grantor retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the grantee admits a limited (or inferior) status within the relationship, and it is within that sense that charters were historically granted, and that sense is ...
Baron Savile, of Rufford in the County of Nottingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1888 for the diplomat Sir John Savile . He was the eldest of the five illegitimate children of John Lumley-Savile, 8th Earl of Scarbrough , and the grandson of John Lumley-Savile, 7th Earl of Scarbrough .