page_title: Ruddington
section_title: Museums
hierarchical_section_title: Ruddington / Museums
caption_attribution_description: English: Stocking Frame - a mechanical knitting machine
context_page_description: Ruddington is an English village 5 miles south of Nottingham in the Borough of Rushcliffe. It had a population of 6,441 at the 2001 Census, increasing to 7,216 at the 2011 Census.
  An independent community, residents have previously conducted high-profile campaigns in an attempt to retain the rural identity as a village and prevent it being subsumed into the adjoining suburban districts of Clifton and West Bridgford. It maintains this through a variety of local amenities such as several shops, schools, public houses, community centre, village hall and churches within the village centre.
context_section_description: Ruddington is notable for being the home of three museums.
  The Ruddington Village Museum
  features authentic Chemists, Ironmongers and Fish and Chip shops from the Edwardian era, all rebuilt part by part inside the building, which was previously the Ruddington Infant and Girls' School.
  The Ruddington Framework Knitters' Museum
  is a unique complex of listed frameshops, cottages, and outbuildings arranged around a garden courtyard, together with a former chapel. The site has been restored to show the working and living conditions of the framework knitters who occupied it throughout the nineteenth century, and is one of the few places in Britain where you can see a working Framework Knitting machine.
  Great Central Railway (Nottingham)
  is next to Rushcliffe Country Park. There is a preserved stretch of the former Great Central Railway line which currently runs to just outside Loughborough. The station has an historic road transport collection, a miniature railway and other attractions. The railway operates every Sunday and bank holiday Monday from Easter to late October. There are plans to join it to the preserved portion of the railway which currently operates from Loughborough Central to Leicester North as the Great Central Railway (heritage railway).
caption: Stocking Frame at Ruddington Framework Knitters' Museum
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