Ranskill

infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Ranskill
latitude= 53.38030
longitude= -1.01680
population = 2,226
shire_district= Bassetlaw
shire_county = Nottinghamshire
region= East Midlands
constituency_westminster= Bassetlaw
post_town= RETFORD
postcode_district = DN22
postcode_area= DN
dial_code= 01777
os_grid_reference= SK655875

Ranskill is a village and civil parish in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire with its nearest town being Retford approximately 5 miles (8 kilometers) south. The Ranskill ward according to the 2001 census has 2,226 residents.

Ranskill dates back to the Danish invasions of the 9th century where the name 'Ravenskelf' meant 'shelving knoll/ridge of the raven'. [ [http://ranskill.org.uk/History/history.html Ranskill Parish, Nottinghamshire ] ]

The village features St. Barnabas Church, built in 1878 and a Methodist 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, Torworth and Ranskill) is printed. Ranskill also has a reading room, bulit 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 billiard tables, two pool tables and a darts board.

The East Coast Main Line railway passes to the east of the village, which was the site of a Royal Ordnance Factory from 1940 until 1975. Ranskill also had a railway station which opened in 1852 where there was a half hourly service between Retford and Doncaster. The station closed in 1958.

ee also

* Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Ranskill

References

External links

* [http://ranskill.org.uk/ Ranskill parish website]