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

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.
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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.
- 01Rushcliffe 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 - 02St 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 - 03Bunny 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 - 04Wilford 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 - 05Clifton 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 - 06St 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 - 07St. 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 - 08Church 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 - 09Great 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 - 10Ruddington 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
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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 → Ruddington68 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £7–10
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ruddington98 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £14–18
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Ruddington104 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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.
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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