Roam Around Rudd Multi-Cache

The cache is NOT at the given location.

You will need to take a lovely tour round Ruddington and pick up clues to find the container.

despite being a sneaky multi, this cache forms one of the Ruddington Puzzle Cross as listed below, designed by Dr RuddRobins, tested & difficulty rated by Mrs. RuddRobins and swagged up + placed mainly by the young RuddRobins.

There is evidence of occupation here during the Bronze Age (c.1500 BC). The name Ruddington, meaning 'the estate of the people of Rudda', came around the time of Anglo Saxon settlers in 550AD.

By the time of the Domesday Book in 1066AD, Ruddington's population entry recorded around 250 people. Most were involved in agriculture and this way of life changed little for many hundreds of years, the population marginally increasing by the 17th century to only approximately 320. Open field lands were reallocated amongst the inhabitants in 1767.

Ruddington's association with the knitting industry had begun by the start of the 19th century after the invention of the knitting frame in Nottinghamshire. The industry attracted new inhabitants and the population grew to 2,500 during this time as an associated extension to lace manufacture. New houses and frameshops, including the site occupied by the present-day Ruddington Framework Knitters Museum were built to provide homes and workspace for the knitters and families. The 1851 census showed that half of the heads of households in the village were involved in the occupation. Framework knitting in the village declined towards the end of the 19th century as steam-powered machines developed and factories provided large-scale competition to the manual methods still being employed by the villagers.

Ruddington expanded further between the wars as new housing estates were built at the edge of the village. The Ordnance Supply and Disposal Depot opened at the start of World War II and occupied a large area on the southern outskirts of the village. The depot closed in the 1980s and the site was redeveloped in 1993 into Rushcliffe Country Park and Ruddington Fields Business Park.

Ruddington has now been christened ‘The Museums Village’ 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 situated adjacent to the Rushcliffe Country Park. There is a preserved stretch of the now defunct Great Central Railway line extending south to Loughborough. Also home to a Classic Road Transport collection, a miniature railway and many more attractions. The railway works every Sunday and bank holiday Monday from Easter to late October. There are plans to join this stretch to the preserved stretch of the railway from Loughborough to Leicester North.

The Roam:

WP1: Parking free at back of the co-op and by the White Horse pub

WP2: By the Framework Knitters Museum:

The signs have gone! If the street nane is zyxwvu, then (numbers for letters) A=v &B=z.

WP3: The Green

Founded & endowed 16ab, Rebuilt 18cd, Paget RIP 18ef: C=e-f; D=c-b; E=d+f

WP4: Wilbur's Corner

(FG) = Wilford+Nottingham+2

WP5: Medieval Well

Excavated abcd: H=a+d

WP6: Dead Centre?

I= Weekend opening-closing

J= I - (2* number of gateposts)

You want N 52 AB.CDE W001 FG.HIJ

Final location is a short walk from WP6 . . .

The caches in the series are:

10 of the caches as marked contain a clue to find the final Bonus Cache.