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Ruspidge
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Ruspidge
Location within Gloucestershire
Population2,472 (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 GL14
Police Gloucestershire
Fire Gloucestershire
Ambulance South Western
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51°48′19″N2°30′19″W / 51.8054°N 2.5052°W / 51.8054; -2.5052 Coordinates: 51°48′19″N2°30′19″W / 51.8054°N 2.5052°W / 51.8054; -2.5052

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 is one public house called 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.

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References

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

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