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Ruddington

Ruddington is a large village in the borough of Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire, England.

Ruddington
Ruddington · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Ruddington is a large village in the borough of Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire, England. The village is 5 miles (8 km) south of Nottingham and 11 miles (18 km) northwest of Loughborough. It had a population of 6,441 at the 2001 Census, increasing to 7,216 at the 2011 Census and 7,674 in 2021. Ruddington is twinned with Grenay, France.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ruddington

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Rushcliffe Country Park

    Rushcliffe Country Park is an open park space covering approximately 210 acres, located on Mere Way just south of Ruddington in the borough of Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England. The park has maintained the Green Flag award for twelve years; the National Standard for parks and green spaces in England and Wales.

    0 m · park in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary's Church, Bunny

    St Mary's Church, Bunny is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Bunny, Nottinghamshire.

    3.6 km · Grade I listed church in Bunny, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bunny Hall

    Bunny Hall is a 21,438 square feet grade I listed country house in Bunny, Nottinghamshire. The house was originally an Elizabethan red brick house with an 80 foot high tower.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed building in Bunny, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wilford Hill

    Wilford Hill is the highest point in West Bridgford, giving views of the Trent Valley as far as Newark-on-Trent. It is listed as having an elevation of 87m and a prominence of 49m.

    2.4 km · hill and housing estate in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Clifton Bridge

    Clifton Bridge is a road bridge spanning the River Trent and carrying the A52 road to the west of the city of Nottingham, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. It was completed and opened to traffic in March 1958 and is constructed of pre-stressed concrete.

    3.8 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Peter's Church, Ruddington

    St. Peter's Church is a Church of England church in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire.

    100 m · grade II listed church in Ruddington, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St. Mary's Church, Clifton

    St Mary's Church is the parish church of Clifton, in Nottinghamshire, England. The church is Grade I listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as a building of outstanding architectural or historic interest.

    3.6 km · Grade I listed church in Clifton, Nottingham, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of the Holy Rood, Edwalton

    The Church of the Holy Rood, Edwalton is a Church of England church in Edwalton, Nottinghamshire.

    3.2 km · church in Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Great Central Railway (Nottingham)

    The Great Central Railway is a heritage railway located at the Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre, on the south side of the village of Ruddington, in Nottinghamshire. The route consists of almost 10 miles of the former Great Central Main Line from Loughborough South Junction to Fifty Steps Bridge and the site of Ruddington's former GCR station, plus a branch line from Fifty Steps Bridge to Ruddington Fields station which is located on a former Ministry of Defence site next to Rushcliffe Country Park.

    1 km · Heritage railway based in Nottinghamshire, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Ruddington Hall

    Ruddington Hall is a country house standing in the grounds of a garden in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, England. Ruddington Hall has been included in the art work of Nikolaus Pevsner alongside the Elizabethan Wollaton Hall and Newstead Abbey, ancestral home of Lord Byron.

    1.3 km · country house in Nottinghamshire, England · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Ruddington

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 14 km · Birmingham (BHX), 63 km · Manchester (MAN), 91 km
Stations
Clifton South tram stop, 2.9 km · Summerwood Lane tram stop, 2.6 km · Clifton Centre tram stop, 2.2 km · Holy Trinity tram stop, 2.2 km · Rivergreen tram stop, 2.3 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Ruddington
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £7–10
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ruddington
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £14–18
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Ruddington
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ruddington

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ruddington. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe airport mainly supports low-cost airlines such as Jet2.com, Ryanair and tour operators like Thomson Airways which serve a range of domestic and European short-haul destinations.

From Wikivoyage: Castle Donington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    245 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    307 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    395 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    411 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    430 km

If you know how people move in Ruddington – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Ruddington

Ruddington is 7 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • West Bridgfordtown in Nottinghamshire, England3.4 km
  • Tollertonvillage and civil parish in Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England3.9 km
  • Bunnyvillage and civil parish in Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England3.6 km
  • Bradmorevillage and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, UK2.3 km
  • Cliftonvillage in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Edwaltonvillage in Nottinghamshire, England, UK3.3 km