Ruddington is an English village situated five miles south of Nottingham in the Borough of Rushcliffe. It has a population of about 6,500 people. Being fiercely independent, residents have conducted high profile campaigns to retain the village's rural identity and prevent it being subsumed into the adjoining suburban districts of Clifton and West Bridgford.
Museums
For such a small village, Ruddington is notable for being the home of three major museums.
- The Ruddington Village Museum features authentic Chemists, Ironmongers and Fish & Chip shops from the Edwardian era, 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.
- The Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre is situated adjacent to the Rushcliffe Country Park. There is a preserved stretch of the now defunt Great Central Railway line. There are plans to join this strech to the preserved stretch of the railway in Loughborough. For more information, see Great Central Railway (preserved).
External Weblink
The Official Website of the Village of Ruddington
