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Ruskington
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Ruskington
Total population
5,169
Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
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Overview
Ruskington is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, located approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Sleaford on the north–south B1188 road and slightly north of the A153 road. The village contains approximately 2,600 dwellings and is approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) in length, measured from east to west. The population of the civil parish was 5,169 at the 2001 census, increasing to 5,637 at the 2011 census and 5,648 at the 2021 census.
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History
Ruskington is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Rischintone and Reschintone. This means "town or settlement where rushes grow", from the Old English *ryscen (with Scandinavian -sk-) + tūn. The remains of a Roman road also run parallel and to the west of Lincoln Road, but are apparent only in aerial photographs. Ruskington's Anglo-Saxon burial ground is situated on Lincoln Road near Mill House. At the time of the Domesday Book of 1086, it was part of the ancient Flaxwell "wapentake" (a collection of local parishes).
Geography
Ruskington is approximately to the north of Sleaford, from Newark and Grantham, and from Boston and Lincoln, with a flat landscape. The Spires and Steeples Trail passes north–south through the village, following the River Slea into Sleaford. The High Street is split into two parts, High Street North and High Street South, by The Beck, a brook that flows from Bloxholm west of the village before merging into the Slea at Haverholme Park. A large number of Mallard ducks inhabit the Beck and surrounding gardens. Roxholm is to the west of the civil parish, and the boundary passes south of Roxholm Grange. On the road to Dunsby it meets Brauncewell, passes eastward through Cottage Farm, crossing the road to Bloxholm, then crossing the B1188, Lincoln Road, north of the village, where it meets Dorrington, skirting the northern edge of the village. The border crosses the railway south of Cedar Farm (in Dorrington), then follows to the south of the road from Dorrington out onto the fens (Ruskington Fen). At Sylcote, it meets North Kyme, following Farroway Drain to the south at Ruskington Dales. It then follows Anwick Bank westward, where it meets Anwick to the south. At Highfield, it follows the Anwick road to the south, crossing the A153. North of Haverholme Priory (outside the parish), meeting Ewerby and Evedon at the River Slea, which it follows for over to the west, before meeting Leasingham. It follows the northern edge of the wood westward along a tributary of the River Slea, then follows parallel to the A153 westward to the south. It crosses the A153 south of the 400 kV pylons, before meeting Roxholm at a copse north of Rigg Farm.
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ONS — UK Office for National Statistics
- ONS code
- osgb4000000074552073
- Local type
- Village
- Region
- East Midlands
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- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • ONS / OS Open Names — UK official place gazetteer, via api.postcodes.io (OS code, local type, county/unitary, district/borough, region)
- • ONS — UK Office for National Statistics — api.postcodes.io / OS Open Names