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A 2023 Nottinghamshire County Council report quoted a detour-length of four miles. [ 16 ] In late 2024, an eel ladder , constructed by Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust with funding from Severn Trent Water , was created to assist in the upriver journeys of European eels , an endangered species , as they climb towards the mill-pond at the weir section.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to ... Rufford may refer ... England site of Rufford New Hall, Rufford Old Hall and Rufford railway station; Rufford, Nottinghamshire
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 .
Sir George Savile, 7th Baronet, FRS (10 February 1678 – 16 September 1743), of Thornhill, of Rufford Nottinghamshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1728 to 1734. Rufford Abbey
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 ]