Most of the houses in this hamlet are built around a village green. It was built for workers for the nearby Ruffside Hall estate. Dates from the early to mid 19th century and appears on the first Ordnance Survey map of 1863, where, interestingly, it is spelt "Roughside".
Uploaded to Geograph by Robert Graham on 21 August 2013
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