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Rufford Abbey, the Glossary

Rufford Abbey is a country estate in Rufford, Nottinghamshire, England, two miles (4 km) south of Ollerton.^[1]

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1147 establishments in England
Country houses in Nottinghamshire
Country parks in Nottinghamshire
English Heritage sites in Nottinghamshire
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Monasteries in Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood
Ruins in Nottinghamshire

Abbey

An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess.

Sir Albert Ball (20 July 1863 – 27 March 1946) was Mayor of Nottingham and Lord Mayor of Nottingham, and the father of the famous Great War air ace Captain Albert Ball (1896–1917), a recipient of the Victoria Cross.

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Augustus William Lumley-Savile

Augustus William Lumley-Savile, renamed Augustus William Savile in 1881, (1829, London – 13 April 1887, Cannes) was an English landowner and Her Majesty's Assistant Master of the Ceremonies.

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Bess of Hardwick

Elizabeth Cavendish, later Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (Hardwick; 13 February 1608), known as Bess of Hardwick, of Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, was a notable figure of Elizabethan English society.

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Bilsthorpe

Bilsthorpe is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. Rufford Abbey and Bilsthorpe are Newark and Sherwood.

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Blidworth

Blidworth is a village and civil parish approximately five miles east of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Rufford Abbey and Blidworth are Newark and Sherwood.

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Boughton, Nottinghamshire

Boughton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ollerton and Boughton, in the Newark and Sherwood district, in Nottinghamshire, England, two miles east of the town of Ollerton. Rufford Abbey and Boughton, Nottinghamshire are Newark and Sherwood.

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British Library

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.

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Cistercians

The Cistercians, officially the Order of Cistercians ((Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly-influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule.

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Cratley

Cratley is a lost village in Nottinghamshire, England. Rufford Abbey and Cratley are Newark and Sherwood.

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Dissolution of the monasteries

The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.

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Downton Abbey series 1

The first series of Downton Abbey comprises seven episodes, was broadcast in the UK from 26 September 2010, and explored the lives of the Crawley family and their servants from the day after the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'' in April 1912 to the outbreak of the First World War on 4 August 1914.

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Eakring

Eakring is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. Rufford Abbey and Eakring are Newark and Sherwood.

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Earl of Scarbrough

Earl of Scarbrough is a title in the Peerage of England.

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Edwinstowe

Edwinstowe is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England, on the edge of Sherwood Forest and the Dukeries. Rufford Abbey and Edwinstowe are Newark and Sherwood and Robin Hood.

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Egmanton

Egmanton is a small village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England, and is located one mile south of Tuxford and one mile north of Laxton. Rufford Abbey and Egmanton are Newark and Sherwood.

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Estate (land)

An estate is a large parcel of land under single ownership, which would historically generate income for its owner.

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Farnsfield

Farnsfield is a large village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire in Sherwood Forest.

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George Lumley-Savile, 3rd Baron Savile

George Halifax Lumley-Savile, 3rd Baron Savile (24 January 1919 – 2 June 2008), was an English landowner, member of the House of Lords, and president of the Country Landowners Association.

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George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, (11 November 1633 – 5 April 1695), was an English statesman, writer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660, and in the House of Lords after he was raised to the peerage in 1668.

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George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury

George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, 4th Earl of Waterford, 10th Baron Talbot, KG, KB, PC (c. 1468 – 26 July 1538) was the son of John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, and Lady Catherine Stafford, daughter of the 1st Duke of Buckingham.

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George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury

George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, 6th Earl of Waterford, 12th Baron Talbot, KG, Earl Marshal (c. 1522/1528 – 18 November 1590) was an English magnate and military commander.

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Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln

Gilbert de Gant, 1st Earl of Lincoln (1126 – 1156) was an English nobleman who fought for King Stephen during The Anarchy.

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Grade I listed buildings in Nottinghamshire

There are over 9,000 Grade I listed buildings in England.

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Harry Clifton (producer)

Henry Talbot de Vere Clifton (1907–1979) was an eccentric, British aristocrat, poet, race horse owner, art collector and film producer.

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Helen Cresswell

Helen Cresswell (11 July 1934 – 26 September 2005) was an English television scriptwriter and author of more than 100 children's books, best known for comedy and supernatural fiction.

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Henry VIII

Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.

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Ice house (building)

An ice house, or icehouse, is a building used to store ice throughout the year, commonly used prior to the invention of the refrigerator.

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Inkersall

Inkersall and Inkersall Green (informally referred to by local residents as Inky) are areas of settlement in Derbyshire, England.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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John Lumley-Savile, 8th Earl of Scarbrough

John Lumley-Savile, 8th Earl of Scarbrough (18 July 1788 – 29 October 1856), styled Viscount Lumley between 1832 and 1835, was a British peer and politician.

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John Savile, 1st Baron Savile

John Savile, 1st Baron Savile, (6 January 1818 – 28 November 1896), was a British diplomat who served as Ambassador to Italy from 1883 to 1888.

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Joseph Taylor (folk singer)

Joseph Taylor (10 September 18334 May 1910), was a folk singer from Saxby-All-Saints, Lincolnshire, England, who became the first English folk singer to be commercially recorded after coming to the attention of the composer and musicologist Percy Grainger.

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Kirton, Nottinghamshire

Kirton is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. Rufford Abbey and Kirton, Nottinghamshire are Newark and Sherwood.

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Lady Arbella Stuart

Lady Arbella Stuart (also Arabella, or Stewart; 1575 – 25 September 1615) was an English noblewoman who was considered a possible successor to Queen Elizabeth I of England.

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Levett

Levett is a surname of Anglo-Norman origin, deriving from Livet, which is held particularly by families and individuals resident in England and British Commonwealth territories.

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Liberty of Rufford

The Liberty of Rufford was an extra-parochial liberty in the County of Nottinghamshire.

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Lincolnshire Posy

Lincolnshire Posy is a musical composition by Percy Grainger for concert band commissioned in 1937 by the American Bandmasters Association.

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Listed buildings in Rufford, Nottinghamshire

Rufford is a civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England.

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Local nature reserve

Local nature reserve (LNR) is a statutory designation for certain nature reserves in Great Britain.

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Lord of the manor

Lord of the manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England and Norman England, referred to the landholder of a rural estate.

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Lord Privy Seal

The Lord Privy Seal (or, more formally, the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal) is the fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord President of the Council and above the Lord Great Chamberlain.

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Main Plot

The Main Plot was an alleged conspiracy of July 1603 by English courtiers to remove King James I from the English throne and to replace him with his cousin Lady Arbella Stuart.

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Manorial Society of Great Britain

The Manorial Society of Great Britain Limited is a private limited company by Guarantee incorporated on 30 December 1996 with a membership of approximately 1,900 Lords of the Manor, feudal barons, peers, and historians mainly from the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Martin Carthy

Martin Dominic Forbes Carthy MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an English singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in English folk music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, and later artists such as Richard Thompson, since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk revival in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567.

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Ministry of Works (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Works was a department of the UK Government formed in 1940, during the Second World War, to organise the requisitioning of property for wartime use.

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Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts.) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Ollerton

Ollerton is a town and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ollerton and Boughton,OS Explorer Map 270: Sherwood Forest: (1:25 000): in the Newark and Sherwood district, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England, on the edge of Sherwood Forest in the area known as the Dukeries. Rufford Abbey and Ollerton are Newark and Sherwood.

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Out of the Cut

Out of the Cut is an album by Martin Carthy, released in 1982.

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Percy Grainger

Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918.

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Poaching

Poaching is the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights.

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Pope Adrian IV

Pope Adrian IV (Adrianus IV; born Nicholas Breakspear (or Brekespear); 1 September 1159, also Hadrian IV) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 4 December 1154 to his death in 1159.

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Rector (ecclesiastical)

A rector is, in an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations.

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Richard Lumley-Saunderson, 4th Earl of Scarbrough

Richard Lumley-Saunderson, 4th Earl of Scarbrough PC (May 1725 – 12 May 1782) was a British peer, styled Viscount Lumley from 1740 to 1752.

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Richard Lumley-Saunderson, 6th Earl of Scarbrough

Richard Lumley-Saunderson, 6th Earl of Scarbrough (16 April 1757 – 17 June 1832), styled The Honourable Richard Lumley-Saunderson until 1807, was a British peer and politician.

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Rievaulx Abbey

Rievaulx Abbey was a Cistercian abbey in Rievaulx, near Helmsley, in the North York Moors National Park, North Yorkshire, England. Rufford Abbey and Rievaulx Abbey are Christian monasteries established in the 12th century, Cistercian monasteries in England and monasteries dissolved under the English Reformation.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufford_Abbey

Also known as Rufford Country Park, Rufford Park Poachers, Rufford Priory.

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See also

1147 establishments in England

Country houses in Nottinghamshire

Country parks in Nottinghamshire

English Heritage sites in Nottinghamshire

Local Nature Reserves in Nottinghamshire

Monasteries in Nottinghamshire

Robin Hood

Ruins in Nottinghamshire

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