Held on the first Saturday of each month, Ruddington Village Market is a super shopping experience. There’s always a huge variety of stalls on The Green. Market day is also a great chance to stroll around and visit many of Ruddington’s local shops, too. On Saturday 3rd June, over seventy traders are expected from 9am until 2pm on the village green. The listing of visiting retailers, with their corresponding stall numbers, is shown on the map below: The monthly market is a project of the award winning Ruddington Village Community Partnership (RVCP). The market has…
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Visitors to Rushcliffe Country Park can now enjoy an extra place to take refuge from the rain – or the sun! – thanks to a brand new natural wood shelter constructed near the Visitor Centre. It also aims to provide a sociable space with additional all-weather seating where park-goers can enjoy refreshments from the adjacent ‘Coffee and Cake by the Lake’ café, which opened in October last year. The structure will also be used as an outdoor education centre to teach children the important part wildlife has to play in…
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It’s a lovely time of the year for a walk around Wilwell Farm Cutting Nature Reserve, Wilford Road NG11 7DD, at 10am with Reserve Warden Gordon Dyne. He says it’s a chance “looking at the reserves woodland and human history as the seasons wind down into winter.” The Nature Reserve has 8 hectares to discover what Autumn has to see along its walking trails from wildflowers to tree species. Walkers please meet at the Wilwell Farm Cutting Nature Reserve Car Park – it’s on the left when you are coming out…
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All welcome for a walk around Wilwell Farm Cutting Nature Reserve, Wilford Road NG11 7DD, at 10am with Reserve Warden Gordon Dyne. He says “stroll round the reserve to look at the sites natural history.” The Nature Reserve has 8 hectares to discover what late Summer has to see along its walking trails from wildflowers to tree species. Walkers please meet at the Wilwell Farm Cutting Nature Reserve Car Park – it’s on the left when you are coming out of Ruddington on Wilford Road, the B680, and just before…
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This is an early morning opportunity to see last night’s moth trap at Wilwell Farm Cutting Nature Reserve at 7am with Paul Dulwich. This FREE event is run by Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. Reserve Warden Gordon Dyne says “Meeting 7am. NUMBERS ARE LIMITED to allow people to get a good view of the night’s haul.” Interested? Please email Gordon Dyne for more information and to reserve your place. Wilwell Farm Cutting Nature Reserve is 8 hectares. It’s a green gem of a lovely space for nature with walking trails on site. It’s located on…
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All welcome for an afternoon walk around Wilwell Farm Cutting Nature Reserve, Wilford Road NG11 7DD, at 2pm with Reserve Warden Gordon Dyne. He says you’ll find a “wide range of wildflowers in bloom at this time of year including Southern Marsh Orchids, as well as birds and butterflies on site.” Walkers please meet at the Wilwell Farm Cutting Nature Reserve Car Park – it’s on the left when you are coming out of Ruddington on Wilford Road, the B680, and just before the ring road bridge (between Ruddington and…
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Meet for a morning walk around Wilwell Farm Cutting Nature Reserve, Wilford Road NG11 7DD, at 10am with Reserve Warden Gordon Dyne. He says you’ll find a “wide range of wildflowers in bloom at this time of year including Southern Marsh Orchids, as well as birds and butterflies on site.” Walkers please meet at the Wilwell Farm Cutting Nature Reserve Car Park – it’s on the left when you are coming out of Ruddington on Wilford Road, the B680, and just before the ring road bridge (between Ruddington and Wilford)…
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For over a year, frustration has been building among village motorists and other residents about the mounting peak-time traffic queues at Ruddington’s busiest crossroads. The increased delays at the Loughborough Road/Kirk Lane/Flawforth Lane traffic lights are being blamed on a failure to carry out the promised junction improvement works there – as hundreds of new families move into the four, major new developments approved in Ruddington as part of the Rushcliffe Borough Council (RBC) ‘Local Plan Part Two’. As previously reported, Avant Homes in particular has come in for criticism after…
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Many lawns, verges and public spaces in Ruddington are a little ‘wilder’ at the moment – as ‘No Mow May’ comes to an end. Promoted each year by the charity ‘Plantlife’, the initiative encourages individuals and organisations to leave mowers in sheds during the month of May so that wildflowers among the grass can grow wild to provide a feast for pollinators, tackle pollution, and lock away atmospheric carbon below ground. The question is, should more of us leave more ground untended throughout the year, not just for these 31 days?…
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This week’s Benjamins featured Ruddington property is a contemporary detached family home: with four bedrooms | en-suite to master bedroom | downstairs w/c | conservatory | dining kitchen | enclosed rear garden | off-road parking plus garage | and the guide priced reduced to between £375,000 and £400,000. You can view this property in a new browser window >>HERE<<. Please contact Benjamins Estate Agents directly for more information, or to arrange a viewing, by ‘phoning 0115 937 1713 or emailing info@benjaminsproperty.com Benjamins Director Ben Featherstone says: “We are extremely excited to team up…
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