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The area is centred around Rufford Abbey, a large country estate, [3] and adjacent Rufford Country Park, a leisure amenity run by Nottinghamshire County Council. [4] The population count was 536 residents at the 2021 census. [5] A small portion of Bilsthorpe village falls across the eastern boundary.
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.
Download QR code; Print/export ... Rufford may refer to: ... England site of Rufford New Hall, Rufford Old Hall and Rufford railway station; Rufford, Nottinghamshire, ...
The Dukeries is an area of the county of Nottinghamshire so called because it contained four ducal seats. It is south of Worksop , which has been called its "gateway". The area was included within the ancient Sherwood Forest . [ 1 ]
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 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 ]
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 .
It is surrounded by the following local areas: Edwinstowe to the north; Clipstone to the south; Lidgett to the east; Gorsethorpe and Market Warsop to the west. The B6030 Mansfield to Rufford road runs through the parish, with a minor road that branches off within the village and routes towards Market Warsop.