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Stretton, Rutland

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Stretton Rutland St Nicholas
Stretton Rutland St Nicholas

Stretton is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland, England, just off the A1 Great North Road. The population of the civil parish was 770 at the 2001 census, including Thistleton and increasing to 1,260 at the 2011 census. The ecclesiastical parish of Stretton shares the same boundaries and is part of the Rutland deanery of the diocese of Peterborough.

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Stretton, Rutland
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Ram Jam Inn
Ram Jam Inn

The Ram Jam Inn was a historic pub in the civil parish of Greetham, Rutland, England, located on the west side of the Great North Road (now the A1), near Stretton, about 7 miles north of Stamford. It was frequented by the highwayman Dick Turpin in the 18th century, and it is alleged that one of his confidence tricks inspired the pub's name. The pub closed in 2013, and plans to demolish it were put on hold. The pub originally opened as a coaching inn called the Winchelsea Arms, but became known as the Ram Jam Inn by the early 19th century, Turpin was a temporary lodger at the inn, and resided here when he first found notoriety. He showed his landlady, Mrs Spring, how to draw mild and bitter ale from a single barrel, stating "ram one thumb in here whilst I make a hole ... now jam your other thumb in this hole while I find the forgotten spile pegs." Turpin subsequently disappeared without paying his bill, while Spring was trapped with two thumbs in the barrel. An alternative, similar, account is that an unnamed con-artist, not specifically named as Turpin, made the landlord fall for the trick so the trickster could try and seduce the landlady. A third tale is that by the 19th century "ram-jam" was a term that meant both eating to capacity and a place full of people.In The Great North Road (1974), Norman W. Webster writes: "Its original name was the Winchilsea [sic] Arms but by the middle of the eighteenth century it was generally known as the Ram Jam. This striking name was the basis of its success for, although it was never a posting house of any importance, its memorable title established it as a land-mark on the Great North Road, contemporary topographers referring to the spot as Ram Jam House. The title derives from the name of a spirit sold by an officer's servant newly returned from India; he called it Ram Ján, the name for an Indian servant, and as such it achieved a similar kind of fame to that of Stilton Cheese sold down the road. Imaginative legends have been invented to explain the curious title, the present sign showing a man stopping the holes of a cask with his fingers. The original spirit has not been sold here since the early years of the nineteenth century, the secret of the recipe having been lost or forgotten." Webster adds that the Ram Jam was one of three "half-way inns" providing sustenance and a change or horses between Stamford and Grantham, but was at the time of writing the only one to have retained its license as an inn. In 1878, Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale ran 100 miles from Knightsbridge Barracks to the inn in under 18 hours in order to win a bet.Soul singer Geno Washington claims he named his backing band the Ram Jam Band after the pub, as it was a popular place for the band to stop en route to gigs. But it was the Ram Jam Band's founder Pete Gage who named the band before Geno was invited to join as their singer.When reviewing the inn in 2000, The Telegraph's Paddy Burt described the meals as "simple food, well done". The novelist Margaret Drabble enjoyed staying at the inn, noting that the double glazing effectively masks the sound of traffic on the A1. The inn is mentioned in the novel Room for Us by Roger Harvey (published UK, 2020). Immediately to the south of the Inn is the Ram Jam Service Station, a petrol station with some amenities, serving northbound traffic only.

Clipsham
Clipsham

Clipsham is a small village in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. It is in the northeast of Rutland, close to the county boundary with Lincolnshire. The population of the civil parish was 120 at the 2001 census increasing to 166 at the 2011 census.The village's name possibly means 'homestead/village of Cylp' or 'hemmed-in land of Cylp'.The village is well known for its limestone quarries. Clipsham stone, part of the Upper Lincolnshire Limestone Formation, can be found in many of Britain's most famous buildings including King's College Chapel (Cambridge), the Examination Schools in Oxford, York Minster, and in repairs to the Houses of Parliament. The earliest recorded use of Clipsham stone was for Windsor Castle between 1363 and 1368. The London Stone is made of it, however, and dates back at least to about 1100. The topiary Yew Tree Avenue, once the carriage drive to Clipsham Hall, has been maintained by the Forestry Commission. The avenue stretches for 500 metres (1,600 ft), with some 150 shaped yew trees leading towards the Hall, a Grade II* listed mansion set in a landscaped park. Many of the trees are over 200 years old and have been trimmed since the late 19th-century into various shapes depicting birds and animals on the tops and designs in relief on the sides. After 2010, Forest Enterprise could not fund the annual trimming and the trees became overgrown and diseased. The Clipsham Yew Tree Avenue Trust, a registered charity, has signed a 20-year agreement with the Forestry Commission to take over the management of the avenue.St Mary's church is a Grade II* listed building.The Olive Branch is one of the very few pubs to hold a Michelin star and in 2008 was chosen as winner of the Michelin Pub of the Year.

Greetham, Rutland
Greetham, Rutland

Greetham is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The village's name means 'homestead/village which is gravelly' or 'hemmed-in land which is gravelly'.The village is on the B668 road between the county town of Oakham and the A1 and on the north–south Viking Way long distance footpath linking the Humber Bridge and Oakham. The population of the civil parish at the 2001 census was 609 increasing to 638 at the 2011 census.The oldest parts of the Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin are Norman, but the church today is largely as it was rebuilt in the 13th–15th centuries. The west tower and spire are 13th or 14th century and the south porch was built in 1673. The church was restored in 1897 by Jethro Cossins. The church is a Grade I listed building. It is on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register, at priority category: C – "slow decay; no solution agreed".Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust owns Merry's Meadows nature reserve, a SSSI in the parish that is important for species characteristic of unimproved grassland. East of the village just before the Sewstern Lane junction, just north of the B668 is Greetham Lime Quarry owned by the Dickerson Group of Waterbeach. Greetham has two pubs: the Plough and the Wheatsheaf, both on the B668. To the east is the Greetham Valley golf course. On the A1 near Stretton is a former pub, the Olde Greetham Inn, now owned by Construction Interior Design. The village well, of mid-19th century, has an inscription; "All ye who hither come to drink/Rest not your thoughts below/Remember Jacob's well and think/Whence "living waters" flow." It is Grade II listed.