Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Rufford

Rufford, par. and vil., Notts, 2 miles SW. of Ollerton, 10,320 ac., pop. 333; Rufford Abbey, seat, with deer-park and lake, was anciently a Cistercian monastery, founded in 1148.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Rufford CP/ExP       Nottinghamshire AncC
Place: Rufford

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