In his history of Dieulacres Michael J Fisher mentions that some time after the accession of Elizabeth I the abbey site passed from the Bagnall family into the hands of the Rudyard family, and it was probably they who built the present Abbey Farm early in the seventeenth century.
The parents of Rudyard Kipling, John Lockwood Kipling and Alice Macdonald first met at Rudyard and named their son after the village.
Little is known of his background, although his name suggests a connection with Rudyard, Staffordshire.
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Rudyard Kipling eventually left the Civil and Military Gazette in 1887, to move to its sister-newspaper in Allahabad, The Pioneer.
It is one of the few locations in the United States to have an antipodal point on land, and its community of Rudyard is the only populated such place.
In 2006 substantial improvements were made by British Waterways, and it is currently operated and managed by their successors, the Canal & River Trust, as part of the Caldon Canal group which also includes Stanley Pool and Rudyard Lake.
Another feature of the Mall is a reflection area where Scouts can read a bronze plaque bearing the words of Rudyard Kiplings's poem If— The recently renovated indoor chapel at the top of the mall was dedicated in memory of Rabbi Goode, one of the Four Chaplains from the USAT Dorchester.
Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and its character Mowgli is based on Pench National Park.
Rudyard railway station which was called Rudyard Lake from 1926 until closure in 1960.
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Cliffe Park railway station which was called Rudyard Lake from opening in 1905 until 1926.
Zamzama, a cannon outside Lahore Museum, immortalized by Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim