Ranskill is a village and

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in the Bassetlaw district of

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, England, with its nearest town being

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approximately 5 miles (8 kilometres) south. The Ranskill parish according to the 2001 census has 2,226 residents, falling to 1,362 at the 2011 census. There is also a Bassetlaw ward called Ranskill. This ward had a population of 2,417 at the 2011 census. Ranskill dates back to the Danish invasions of the 9th century where the name 'Ravenskelf' meant 'shelving knoll/ridge of the raven'.Ranskill Parish, Nottinghamshire
The village features St. Barnabas Church, built in 1878 and a

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chapel first built in 1868 and expanded in the 1930s. The Methodist chapel also features a schoolroom, where today the local newspaper, the STAR (

Scrooby Scrooby is a small village on the River Ryton in north Nottinghamshire, England, near Bawtry in South Yorkshire. At the time of the 2001 census it had a population of 329. Until 1766, it was on the Great North Road (United Kingdom), Great North ...

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and Ranskill) is printed. Ranskill also has a

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, built in 1891 by the Gillott family as a library and reading room, where in 1909 the room was changed to include billiard tables. Today the room is still in use and features two

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s, two pool tables and a darts board. The

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railway passes to the east of the village, which was the site of a

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from 1940 until 1975. Ranskill also had a

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which opened in 1852 where there was a half-hourly service between

and

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. The station closed in 1958.

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External links

Ranskill parish website
Villages in Nottinghamshire Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire Bassetlaw District {{Nottinghamshire-geo-stub

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