Ruckinge

Ruckinge

infobox UK place

country = England
official_name= Ruckinge
latitude= 51.0656

longitude= 0.8626

civil_parish= Ruckinge
population = 727
shire_district= Ashford
shire_county= Kent
region= South East England

constituency_westminster= Ashford
post_town= TONBRIDGE
postcode_district = TN26
postcode_area= TN
dial_code= 01233
os_grid_reference= TR025335The village of Ruckinge is located in Kent. It lies seven miles southeast of Ashford on the B2067 Hamstreet to Hythe road. It is the centre of a civil parish of the same name, which also includes the scattered community of Bromley Green. The population of the parish is 727 persons, and is divided in two (Upper and Lower) by a belt of woodland.

The village has a public house (Blue Anchor), church (St Mary Magdalene) and Methodist chapel. The Royal Military Canal runs to the south of Ruckinge. Ruckinge's history includes smuggling, once rife on Romney Marsh and it is rumoured that the notorious Ransley brothers were buried in Ruckinge churchyard after being hanged at Penenden Heath, Maidstone.

Until the early 1990s Ruckinge had a village shop/post office. Today the nearest shops and railway station are in nearby Hamstreet. Ruckinge does have lively Scout and Guide associations which it shares with the larger village.

Sources

* [http://www.ashford.gov.uk/about_the_borough/towns_and_villages/ruckinge.aspx Ashford Borough Council - Notes and history]


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