Rudge, Somerset

Rudge
Full Moon Inn at the central crossroads
Rudge Rudge shown within Somerset
Population	100
OS grid reference	ST828517
District	Mendip
Shire county	Somerset
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	FROME
Postcode district	BA11
Dialling code	01373
Police	Avon and Somerset
Fire	Devon and Somerset
Ambulance	South Western
EU Parliament	South West England
UK Parliament	Somerton and Frome
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Rudge is a hamlet in the civil parish of Beckington in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. Its nearest town is Frome.

Location

The hamlet is located 2.5 miles west of Westbury, Wiltshire, and 1.5 miles east of A36 road going from Bath to Warminster.

The neighbouring villages are Rode, Southwick, Dilton Marsh and Beckington.

The Full Moon pub has developed from a small pub, now having letting rooms and a restaurant.^[1]

Since 1946, a public telephone and kiosk were placed outside the pub. It is now an Information Point [RIP] and mini book exchange.

The Old Manor House, sometimes known as Rudgehill Farm, was built in the early 17th century and refronted in 1692.^[2]

The Baptist Chapel at Rudge was founded at the beginning of the 19th century.

The Methodist Chapel in the centre of Rudge, which was built in 1839,^[3] It is now a private house.

The electricity supply to Rudge was completed by 1950, and the piped water supply was laid on in 1954.

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Towns, villages and hamlets in the Mendip district of Somerset, England

	Alhampton Ashwick Baltonsborough Batcombe Beckington Berkley Binegar Blatchbridge Buckland Dinham Chewton Mendip Chilcompton Coleford Cranmore Croscombe Ditcheat Doulting Downhead East Lydford East Pennard Emborough Evercreech Frome Glastonbury Godney Great Elm Hemington Holcombe Kilmersdon Lamyat Leigh-on-Mendip Litton Lullington Lydford-on-Fosse Meare Mells Milton Clevedon North Wootton Norton St Philip Nunney Pilton Priddy Pylle Rode Rodney Stoke Rudge Selwood Sharpham Shepton Mallet St Cuthbert Out Stoke St Michael Ston Easton Stratton-on-the-Fosse Street Tellisford Trudoxhill Upton Noble Walton Wanstrow Wells West Bradley West Lydford West Pennard Westbury-sub-Mendip Whatley Witham Friary Wookey Wookey Hole

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