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Retford est une ville du Nottinghamshire, en Angleterre, dans le district de Bassetlaw. Elle est nommée d'après un ancien gué (ford) sur l'Idle. Son nom administratif est East Retford, car l'agglomération se trouve sur la rive orientale de la rivière.[réf. nécessaire] (fr) Is baile suite i Nottinghamshire é Retford. (ga) Retford (/ˈrɛtfʊd/), also known as East Retford, is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England, and one of the oldest English market towns having been granted its first charter in 1105. It lies on the River Idle and the Chesterfield Canal passes through its centre. Retford is 26 miles (42 km) east of Sheffield, 23 miles (37 km) west of Lincoln and 31 miles (50 km) north-east of Nottingham. The population at the 2011 census was 22,013. In 1878 an Act of Parliament extended the borough of East Retford to include the village of Ordsall, West Retford and part of the parish of Clarborough. It is administered by Bassetlaw District Council, which itself is now a non-constituent partner member of the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority. In addition to being an ancient market town and infamous Rotten Borough, Retford is known as being at the centre of Nonconformism, with the origins of the Pilgrims, Baptists and Wesleys being in this area. (en) Retford è una cittadina di 21.314 abitanti della contea del Nottinghamshire, in Inghilterra. (it) Retford is een plaats in het bestuurlijke gebied Bassetlaw, in het Engelse graafschap Nottinghamshire. De plaats telt 21.314 inwoners. Retford ligt aan de autoweg 1 van Londen naar Edinburgh, en ook aan de hoofdspoorbaan tussen Londen en Schotland. In de plaats ligt een Russisch kanon uit de Krimoorlog. (nl) Retford - miasto w Anglii w hrabstwie Nottinghamshire, dystrykcie Bassetlaw. Zamieszkuje je 21 314 osób. Retford jest wspomniana w Domesday Book (1086) jako Redford(e). (pl) Retford är en stad (market town) i Nottinghamshire i England, med 22 013 invånare (2011). Orten nämndes i Domedagsboken (Domesday Book) år 1086 och kallades då Redford(e). (sv) |
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"The flood came on so sudden at Retford on Tuesday night, that great numbers of the inhabitants had no time to remove their effects, and several of them have received very considerable losses by it. It was three feet high in the Market-place, and the torrent ran so strong as to tear up the pavement in different parts of the town, which was nearly all under water. At West Retford a grocer's shop, and part of Miss Hurst's house were washed down, and four other houses were nearly destroyed, and their inhabitants preserved with the greatest difficulty." (en) "Immediately in front of the Town Hall, in the Market Square, is the historic Broad Stone. It formerly occupied a slight eminence known by the name of Est-croc-sic, now called Dominie Cross. It is believed to have been the base of a cross, and to have formed one of four: a second is still preserved in the West Retford churchyard, a third was in the churchyard at Ordsall, the fourth is lost...likely these crosses marked the boundary beyond which inhabitants smitten with the plague were prohibited to pass. Certain it is that at times the plague devastated Retford ...From Dominie Cross the Broad Stone was removed into the Market-place. It became the hustings where candidates for the two parliamentary seats allotted to this borough addressed their constituents, the freemen. Here, at various times, they were heckled, threatened, even assaulted. Woe betide the candidate who was not "all right". When 40 guineas were at stake it was serious to a freeman to "lose his election". Apprentices assembled here at the close of their "servitude" after a night's carousal and sang a ditty which is still preserved." (en) "In the days of the Roman occupation of Britain, a great Roman Road, or "Strada"— Street— ran from Southampton to Derby, Little Chester, Chesterfield, Castleford, Pontefract, to Eboracum, or York: and from it, at Chesterfield, branched out a "Street" to the Roman Station of Lindum, or Lincoln, which crossed the River Trent at Agelocum, now Littleborough, and the River Idle by a Ford, still used as a watering place for horses, near West Retford Bridge; hence the place would be known as the Street-Ford, or Streteford." (en) They thought that East Retford ought to be partially sacrificed, in order to prevent the whole system of corruption from being overturned. Just as in a bullfight a cloak is dropped to turn aside the rage of the mad animal, while his assailant prepares more securely to destroy him. If the public were ignorant of the undue means by which a large majority of the Members of that House obtained their seats in it, they might declaim against the venality of the voters of East Retford; but, notorious as these circumstances were, he thought it better to pass over the present case in silence till they were prepared to deal with others equally flagitious. (en) "From whichever direction it is approached this building dominates the skyline". (en) |
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Retford est une ville du Nottinghamshire, en Angleterre, dans le district de Bassetlaw. Elle est nommée d'après un ancien gué (ford) sur l'Idle. Son nom administratif est East Retford, car l'agglomération se trouve sur la rive orientale de la rivière.[réf. nécessaire] (fr) Is baile suite i Nottinghamshire é Retford. (ga) Retford è una cittadina di 21.314 abitanti della contea del Nottinghamshire, in Inghilterra. (it) Retford is een plaats in het bestuurlijke gebied Bassetlaw, in het Engelse graafschap Nottinghamshire. De plaats telt 21.314 inwoners. Retford ligt aan de autoweg 1 van Londen naar Edinburgh, en ook aan de hoofdspoorbaan tussen Londen en Schotland. In de plaats ligt een Russisch kanon uit de Krimoorlog. (nl) Retford - miasto w Anglii w hrabstwie Nottinghamshire, dystrykcie Bassetlaw. Zamieszkuje je 21 314 osób. Retford jest wspomniana w Domesday Book (1086) jako Redford(e). (pl) Retford är en stad (market town) i Nottinghamshire i England, med 22 013 invånare (2011). Orten nämndes i Domedagsboken (Domesday Book) år 1086 och kallades då Redford(e). (sv) Retford (/ˈrɛtfʊd/), also known as East Retford, is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England, and one of the oldest English market towns having been granted its first charter in 1105. It lies on the River Idle and the Chesterfield Canal passes through its centre. Retford is 26 miles (42 km) east of Sheffield, 23 miles (37 km) west of Lincoln and 31 miles (50 km) north-east of Nottingham. The population at the 2011 census was 22,013. (en) |
