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Rushton Park, seat, Sussex; post-town, Roberts
bridge.

Rushulme, Lancashire. See Rusholme.

Rnshiip House, seat, 2 miles NE. of Chapel-en-le-
Frith, Derbyshire, under Rnshup Edge.

Rushwick, in co. and 3 miles from Worcester; P.O.

Rnshyford, hamlet, Auckland St Andrew par., Dur-
ham, 5 miles SE. of Bishop Auckland ; P.O.

Ruskelt', North-Riding Yorkshire. See Raskelf.

Ruskey, co. Roscommon; P.O. See Rooskey.

Ruskie, hamlet, Port of Menteith par., Perthshire,
on Loch Ruskie, 34 miles S. of Callander; P.O.

Ruskington, par. and vil. with ry. sta., Lincolnshire,
3g miles N. of Sleaford, 4750 ac., pop. 1191; P.O., T.O.;
the par. of Ruskington forms a local government dist.

Rusland, eccl. dist., Colton par., N. Lancashire, pop.
153 ; Rusland Hall, seat, is
8 miles NE. of Ulverston.

Kusmuck, 19 m. from Recess, W. co. Galway ; P.O.

Rnsper, par. and vil., Sussex, 5 miles NE. of Hor-
sham, 3123 ac., pop. 539; P.O.; a Benedictine nunnery
was founded here in time of Richard I.

Ruspidge,2 m. fromCinderford,Gloucestershire; P.O.

Russagh, par., N. co. Westmeath, on river Inny,
near Inny Junction, 2570 ac., pop. 325.

Russborough, seat of the Earl of Milltown, 3 miles
SAY. of Blessington, AY. co. AVicklow.

Russel, Great and Li tile, 2 straits, among the Channel
Islands; the former between Sark and Herm, the latter
between Herm and Guernsey.

Russcllstown. — seat, in co. and 4 miles NE. of
Carlow. — 2. Russcllstown, seat, 24 miles SAY. of
Blessington, W. co. AVicklow.

Kusthall, eccl. dist., Speldhurst par., Kent, on NW.
side of Tunbridge Wells, pop, 3223 ; Rnsthall House
and Rnsthall Lodge are seats; Rnsthall Common is
an extensive open waste, diversified by masses of rock.

Rustington, coast par. and vil., Sussex, 1 mile E. of
Littlehampton and 4 miles SE. of Arundel, 945 ac. and
248 foreshore, pop. 360 ; P.O.

Ruston, vil., Wykeham par., North-Riding York-
shire, 54 miles SW. of Scarborough.

Ruston, Bast, par. and vil., Norfolk, 54 miles SE. of
North AValsham, 2494 ac., pop. 667; P.O.; Porson (1759-
1808), the celebrated Greek scholar, was a native.

Ruston, South, par., Norfolk. See Sco-Ruston.

Ruston Parva, par., East-Riding Yorkshire, 4 miles
NE. of Driffield, 969 ac., pop. 129.

Rnswarp, township and ry. sta., Whitby par.,
North-Riding Yorkshire, on river Esk, in town of
Whitby, 1740 ac. and 79 foreshore, pop. 4839; P.O.;
the sta. is 1J mile SW. of Whitby sta.

Ruswick, Yorkshire. See Runswick.

Rutherford, ry. sta., Maxton par., Roxburghshire, 6
miles SW. of Kelso.

Rutherglen, parl., royal, and police burgh and par.,
in NAV. of Lanarkshire, on river Clyde, 2 miles SE. of
Glasgow—par., 2151 ac., pop. 13,801; parl. burgh and
town, pop. 11,265; royal and police burgh, pop. 11,473;
P.O., T.O., 2 Banks, 1 newspaper. Rutherglen (popu-
larly Ruglen) was made a royal burgh in 1126, and was
a place of much importance before the rise of Glasgow.
There are extensive collieries and ironworks in the
vicinity. Rutherglen forms one of the Kilmarnock Dis-
trict of Parliamentary Burghs, which returns 1 member.

Ruthin.—parl. and mun. bor., market town, and par.,
Denbighshire, on river Clwyd, 7§ miles SE. of Denbigh
by rail—par., 737 ac., pop. 1130; bor. (extending into
Llanfair-Dyffryn-Chvyd, Llanfwrog, Llanrhydd, and
Llanynys pars.), 2033 ac., pop. 3033 ; P.O., T.O.-, 2 Banks.
Market-days,
Monday and Saturday. Ruthin has an
old collegiate church (originally the chnrch of a white
friary) and a grammar school. The “Red Castle”
from which it takes its name was built about 1280,
and was captured and dismantled by the Parliamentary
General Mytton in 1646. Ruthin is a seat of assizes,
sessions, and county courts. It has mfrs. of aerated
waters, and some trade in agricultural produce and in
stone and other building materials. Ruthin was made
a municipal bor. by Henry VII. ; it is one of the Den-

Gazetteer of the British Isles, Statistical and Topographical, by John Bartholomew, F.R.G.S.

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