. DIREC'fORY.] · RUDDINGTON 641

RUDDINGTON is a large parish and village, situated the :Misses Pa~et and R. Machin esq. The soil and on rising ground in the vicinity of a range of hills. It subsoil, vary. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats is in the hu!ldred and division of , and gives and roots. The area is 2,740 acres; rateable value, its name to a sub-division for the County Council. It £r3,152; the population in I9II wa.s 2,771. is in the Basford union, county court district and petty sessional division of , rural deanery of West MICKLEB.ARROW, r mile north, is a well-wooded hill. Bingham, archdeaconry of Nottingham and diocese of Parish Clerk, Thomas Smith. Southwell, distant nearly 5 miles south from Notting­ Post, M. & T. Office. James W. Dent, sub-post­ ham and ro west-by-north from . Here is 0. master. Letters received from Nottingham at 6.30 a station on the Great Central railway to London. The village is lighted with gas from Nottingham, and a.m. & 2.40 p.m.; dispatched at ro. ro a. m. & 6.55 & 8.40 p.m. daily, except sundays. No post on sundays. supplied with water from works belonging to the Not­ tingham Corporation. The church of St. Peter is an Telegraph office open sundays, 8.30 to 10 a.m edifice of stone in the Decorated style, rebuilt, with the • exception of the tower, in r887-8, at a cost of £r4,ooo, PLACES OF WORSHIP. and consisting of chancel, nave of six bays, aisles, organ St. Peter's Church.-S£~rvices on sunday at 10.45 & chamber, vestry, south-west porch and an embattled 6.30; holy communion, first & third sundays in the tower with spire at the west end of the north aisle, con- month at mid-day, second, fourth & fifth at 8 taining a clock and 8 bells, originally in Flawforth a.m.; Rev. F. Boykett M.A. vicar; Rev. Arthur John church, and one bears the date r663: in the chancel is a Price B.A. curate; William F. Mills & John William brass to the memory of Charles Paget, formerly M.P. I Cross, wardens; Alfred Cookf~, organist & choir for Nottingham, and Ellen, his wife, who were drowned master; Thomas Smith, clerk & sexton. Hymns, on Oct. 13, 1873, at Filey Brigg, Yorkshire, by being A. & M washed into the sea: a brass plate inscribed with an Chapels:- account of the event has been placed by their family on Baptist, services, ro.45 & 6; monday, 8 p.rn.; Rev. the rocks overlooking the scene of the occurrence: four I Alfred Enoch Phillips; Henry Plowright, senior stained glass windows, the gift of the Misses Paget, deacon; George Mann, sec.; Mrs. Savage, keeper were placed in 1894: the church plate, consisting of Wesleyan, 10.30 & 6; alternate wed. 7 p.m.; John Mee chalice, flagon and paten and an alms dish, is of silver, & Leonard Alien, stewards; Thomas Cross, keeper and was presented by the late Thomas Cross esq. of Primitive Methodist, 10.45 & 6; alternate tues. 7 Ruddington Hall, in 1874: in r88g a stained west p.m.; Fredk. Vernon & William Harwood, stewards; window was given by Miss Ann Paget, in memory of Charles Stevenson, keeper her sister Helen : a new organ was provided in rgo8 by Dr. McVickar, Bishop of Rhode Island, U.S.A. and his · PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. ' sister, Miss Constance McVickar, in memory of the late Founded in 1641 by James Peacock & rebuilt in 1875 by Mr. and Mrs. Philo Laos Mills, of Ruddington Hall: the family of the late Charles Paget esq. mentioned there are 750 sittings, 350 being free. The register of above, to his memory & that of his wife; the master baptisms dates from 1633; burials, 1653; marriages, has a good house & garden; r6o boys on roll ; Samuel 1655; the early registers are.in very good condition. The William Smith, master living is a vicarage, net yearly value [300, with residence, Girls', opened in 1873• for 127 girls; Miss S. J. Dexter, in the g-ift of Simeon trustees, and held since r885 by the mistress Rev. Frank Boykett M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Infants', erected in r852 by Sir Thomas G. A. Parkyns Cambridge. There is a Baptist chapel, erected in r 823, hart. & enlarged in 1894, for 148 children; Miss Mary with 250 sittings, and Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist ' J ane Kempson, mistress chapels. The cemetery, in Sbaw street, opened in r882, Village Hall, Herbert Lee, sec consists of ra. Ir. and is under the control of the Has­ ford Burial Board. The village hall, erected in 1912 at Cemetery, Thomas Smith, caretaker, Sh.aw street a cost of £r,zoo, will seat 400 persons. Here are Police Sergeant in Charge, Harry Richmond, Station rd Unionist and Liberal clubs, lodges of Oddfellows, courts Railway Station, Edward Broughton, station master of Foresters, and sick clubs. The feast is on the first Sunday after the 28th June. The inhabitants are prin­ Carriers to Nottingham.-Herbert Stevenson & Samuel cipally employed in hosiery and lace manufacture. Hamsley, tlaily Ruddington Hall is the residence of Major J. Ashworth Conveyance.-S. Hemsley's omnibus to & from Notting­ V.D. and Ruddington Grange, of Sir Thomas Isaac ham, twice daily, except saturctay, when the service Birkin hart. D.L., J.P. The principal landowners are is more frequent Allcock Arthur, farmer Bradwell William Henry, grocer Eames Miss Ada, Silverwood, Sta- Alien Leonard, butcher Broughton Edward, station master tion road Armitage Eric B., L.D.S.Eng. dental *Brown Gilbert Noel, wine merchant, Elliott William, Grasmere surgeon; surgery, Station road Fla.wford house. T .N. 40 *Ellis John (printer), Manor park *Ashworth Major John V.D. Rud- Brown Middleton, The Hermitage Flintham Herbert, v. Three Crowns dington ball Brown Philip Edward, Brook cot- Foster Waiter Francis, Arner bill Attewell Clarence A. registrar of tage, Clifton lane · Francis Edward, Fairham bridge births &c. & relieving officer for Burkinshaw Frederick (timber mer- Gillespie William, Brentwood sub-district, Charles street chant), Clifton lane Glazebrook Michael, fish frier * Attewell William (builder), Hill- I Burrows Arthur, joiner Goodwin George William, grocer side, Clifton lane Burrows Richard S. farmer , *Green Frederick A. tailor Baker Archibald S. Moor-leigh, *Burton Frank E. South manor Greenwood Frank, bag hosier Clifton lane Butler William, butcher Greenwood James, fancy bag hosier Baker Herbert (Herbert Baker & Cawthorne John, bag hosier & cottager Sons), Woodlands Chapman William, coal dealer Greenwood John, hosiery manufactr Baker Herbert & Sons, lace manufac- ; Coker Charles B. hair dresser Gregg W. plumber & gasfitter

turers, Clifton lane. T N 4 Rud- ! Cooke Alfred, cycle maker & frame­ Grice Reuben, cycle dealer

dington I smith; h. Belmont villa, Kirk lane Gunn Charles, farmer Baker Leonard M. (Herbert Baker & I *Cooper & Roe, hosiery manufactrs Gunn Thomas, farmer *Hadley Edwin, Mano_r park . Sons), Gordon lodge 1 Cooper Frederick T. Station road

Baker Ronald S. (Herbert Baker & ! Cripwell & Stevenson, farmen & Halford Bernard Orme (estate agent), Sons), Clifton lane thrashing machine holders Orchard house Barnes John, rate collector,Church at; Cripwell Richard, blacksmith & Hallam Wm. fishmonger & greengrcr Barnes Thomas B. bho. White Horse j wheelwright , Handley George, painter Baynes-Smith Stanhope Edwin, Sta-: Cross Arthur William, confectioner Hands William P. Manor park tion road · Cross George, draper *Hardy George Gordon (G. H. & Beecroft E.&Son,'Plumbt:~rs & gasfittrs Cross John Wm. baker & grocer &c Co.), Clifton lane Beecroft George, cottager, The Green Cross Thomas, news agent Hardy J obn, ironmonger Birch Mrs. Eva, draper Curtis Charles Haynes, Queenswood, Hemsley Richard, boot maker *Birkin Sir Thomas Isaac hart. D.L., Clifton lane Hemsley Sl. carrier & omnibus propr J.P. (lace manufr.), The Grange Daft Mrs. Mary, confectioner Henson & Cumberland (George & Boot John, Manor park *Davis Geo. Albt. yarn agt.Fox Howe J arvis), bag hosiers Bonser Harold T. v. Red Lion Dent James W. stationer, Post office Henson Richard, bho. Jolly Farmers *Bowley James Thos.tailor, Station rd Dexter Henry, carter Hiclding Mrs. Eliza, bho.Victoria. tvn Bowley Thomas, tailor, Easthorpe s.t Dexter Miss Mary A. confectioner Hickling Samuel, farmer Boykett Bev.Fra.nk M.A.The Vicarage Dickman Fdk. Wm.grocer & beer ret Hickling Thomas,shopkeeper, High st NOTTINGHAM 41