Ruspidge

Ruspidge
Ruspidge
Ruspidge shown within Gloucestershire
Population 2,472 (2011)[1]
OS grid reference SO652119
Civil parish
  • Ruspidge and Soudley
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Cinderford
Postcode district GL
Police Gloucestershire
Fire Gloucestershire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament

Ruspidge is a village in the Forest of Dean district of west Gloucestershire, England. The civil parish includes Soudley

It is located near the town of Cinderford and in the Forest of Dean. There are two public houses which are opposite each other, these are The Rising Sun and the New Inn.

There is one village shop on the main street (Ruspidge Road), a park and football pitch, as well as a chapel, lying on Railway Road. It is named such because the Ruspidge Halt railway station was situated at the end before its closure in 1958.

Its grid reference is SO 655 125 GB.

References

  1. "Civil parish population 2011". Retrieved 27 March 2015.

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