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Population
  
7,216 (2011)

Region
  
East Midlands

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Local time
  
Friday 6:57 AM

District
  
Rushcliffe

Civil parish
  
Ruddington

Country
  
England

Post town
  
NOTTINGHAM

Shire county
  
Nottinghamshire

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Weather
  
4°C, Wind NE at 21 km/h, 92% Humidity

Dialling code
  
0115 (921 / 940 / 945 / 984)

University
  
Central College Nottingham

Ruddington is an English village (twinned with Grenay, France) situated 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Nottingham in the Borough of Rushcliffe. It had a population of 6,441 at the 2001 UK census, increasing to 7,216 at the 2011 census.

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Map of Ruddington, Nottingham, UK

An independent community, residents have previously conducted high-profile campaigns in an attempt to retain the rural identity as a village and prevent it being subsumed into the adjoining suburban districts of Clifton and West Bridgford. Ruddington is also home to Rushcliffe Country Park, an area developed on the now decommissioned Ruddington Depot.

Ruddington once had a station on the former Great Central Railway (later part of the LNER), the last main line to be built from the north of England to London, opened on 15 March 1899. The station closed on 4 March 1963 but the line remained operational for passenger traffic until 5 May 1969 and for freight until 1974. The line was subsequently dismantled north of Ruddington, but the section south to Loughborough remains in existence as a heritage railway (see Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre below).

Museums

Ruddington is notable for being the home of three museums.

The Ruddington Village Museum
features authentic Chemists, Ironmongers and Fish and Chip shops from the Edwardian era, all rebuilt part by part inside the building, which was previously the Ruddington Infant and Girls' School.
The Ruddington Framework Knitters' Museum
is a unique complex of listed frameshops, cottages, and outbuildings arranged around a garden courtyard, together with a former chapel. The site has been restored to show the working and living conditions of the framework knitters who occupied it throughout the nineteenth century, and is one of the few places in Britain where you can see a working Framework Knitting machine.
Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre
is situated adjacent to the Rushcliffe Country Park. There is a preserved stretch of the now defunct Great Central Railway line extending south to Loughborough. Also home to a Classic Road Transport collection, a miniature railway and many more attractions. The railway works every Sunday and bank holiday Monday from Easter to late October. There are plans to join this stretch to the preserved stretch of the railway from Loughborough to Leicester North.

Transport

Nottingham City Transport

  • 3: Nottingham – Trent Bridge – Wilford Green – Ruddington - Clifton.
  • 10: Nottingham – Trent Bridge – Wilford Hill – Ruddington.

    • Kinchbus

  • 9: Nottingham – Loughborough Road – Ruddington – A60 – Loughborough.

    • Nottingham City Council

  • LocalLink L22: Clifton – Ruddington – Wilford – West Bridgford – Gamston.

    • References

    Ruddington Wikipedia
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