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Rufford, in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, is the site of two villages whose inhabitants were evicted in the 12th century. Cistercian monasteries were established and the monks wished to ensure their isolation. [1] [2]
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 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 ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to ... Rufford may refer ... England site of Rufford New Hall, Rufford Old Hall and Rufford railway station; Rufford, Nottinghamshire
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 ...
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] The ducal seats were: Worksop Manor: a home of the Dukes of Norfolk, and nearest to Worksop;
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 ]
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