RUDDINGTON, a parish in the northern division of the wapentake of RUSHCLIFFE, county of NOTTINGHAM, 5 miles (S.) from Nottingham, containing 1138 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £6. 13. 4., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev. C. Simeon, The church, dedi- cated to St. Peter, has lately received an addition of three hundred and ninety-four sittings, of which three hundred and fifty are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £ 500 towards defraying the expense. About one mile from this structure is an extensive churchyard, and the site of an ancient church, called Flawford, thought by some to have been originally the parish church. There are places of worship for- Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. Frame-work knitting and the weaving of lace is carried on in the village, which is of considerable size. A free school was founded, in 1641, by James Peacock, citizen of London, who endowed it with lands in the parish, now producing an annual income of £75, for teaching all the children of parishioners. There is also an infant school, supported by Lady Parkyns. Ruddington is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s. A college for a warden and four chaplains was founded here, in the reign of Henry VI., by William Babington, Esq., who endowed it with a revenue which was valued, in the 26th year of the reign of Henry VIII., at £30.