Ridgeway Village, N.E. Derbyshire, England
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Welcome to the Web site of the village of Ridgeway! Our intention is to provide a source of information and communication for the residents and friends of Ridgeway, and also for visitors to the village.
Please click on this link to see where Ridgeway is located between Sheffield and Chesterfield. The About Ridgeway tab above provides some general introductory information about the village.
The Navigation panel to the left of this window provides a list of links to information about the village.
To find out more about how to use the site, please click on the Using this site tab above. It explains how the site is organised and how the various areas of the site operate.
If you would like to be automatically informed by e-mail of when News items are added toi the site, please subcribe to our News Notification Service.
The Web site was developed and is currenty maintained on a voluntary basis. We are grateful to Sharkbyte Studios for providing the design and content management framework. If you have any thoughts or comments on the content of the site, or if you would like to help out with its maintenance and development, in particular in providing information about activities in the village, please contact the Web Site Team on 0114 248 3682.
The need for information and communication in communities is as old as the human race - it's just that we now have new ways of addressing these needs. There must been many instances in the life of Ridgeway in the past where this was achieved using paper documents. For example, first published in 1936, was the Ridgeway Council School's Ridge-Ways magazine, edited by the headmaster at the time, Mr Clifford Bennett. Editions of this magazine make interesting reading and provide insights into village life at the time. The magazine included village matters which were not only concerned with the school. For example the December 1938 edition had an article entitled "Ridgeway - Over a Hundred Years Ago". Ridge-Ways also had lighthearted Humour sections at the bottom of some of the pages. For example: "Dad, teacher told us today that Columbus travelled more than two thousand miles on a galleon!" "Oh! Well, don't believe all you hear about those foreign cars, my boy." We are now able to make available the December 1938 edition of the magazine - please see the History area. A good deal is known about Ridgeway history - please see the History and Publications areas.
Lastly, please have a look at our Terms and Conditions.
April 2008
Last modified 25-05-2008 17:39