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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.
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 ...
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
The majority of these have been edited by Professor C J Holdsworth and published in the four volumes of Rufford Charters (Thoroton Society Record Series, vols. 29, 30, 32 and 34, 1972 – 1981). DD/SR/12/1-102 Charters: Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, etc. 1284-1668; DD/SR/20 Sherwood Forest Book: Rufford Abbey copy c.1216-c.1447
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 .
Download as PDF; Printable version ... move to sidebar hide. Rufford may refer to : Rufford, Lancashire ... Old Hall and Rufford railway station; Rufford ...
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 ...