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Warsop
Civil parish
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Warsop
Location within Nottinghamshire
Area11.12 sq mi (28.8 km2)
Population12,644 (2021)
•  Density 1,137/sq mi (439/km2)
OS grid reference SK 568685
•  London 125 mi (201 km)  SE
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
SettlementsMarket Warsop, Church Warsop, Sookholme, Nettleworth Manor, Gleadthorpe Grange, Meden Vale, Warsop Vale, Spion Kop
Post town MANSFIELD
Postcode district NG20
Dialling code 01623
Police Nottinghamshire
Fire Nottinghamshire
Ambulance East Midlands
UK Parliament
Website warsopparishcouncil.co.uk
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UK
England
Nottinghamshire
53°12′N1°09′W / 53.20°N 1.15°W / 53.20; -1.15

Warsop is a town and civil parish in Mansfield District, Nottinghamshire, England, on the outskirts of the remnants of Sherwood Forest. [1] At the 2021 census the population was 12,644 residents, including Church Warsop, Meden Vale, Sookholme and Spion Kop. [2]

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Governance

The parish was an urban district in Nottinghamshire until 1974, when it joined with Mansfield Borough and Woodhouse Urban District Council to form Mansfield District Council. Warsop retains a council, as a successor parish, including the localities of Market Warsop, Church Warsop, Meden Vale, Warsop Vale and Spion Kop. [3] The council is based at Warsop Town Hall. [4]

After re-alignment of local wards within Mansfield District Council before the 2011 local elections to achieve a standard format of one councillor-per-ward, Warsop has four designated areas named as Warsop Carrs, Netherfield, Market Warsop and Meden. [5] [6]

Warsop is a part of the Mansfield Parliamentary Constituency since 2010, whose MP from 2017 to May 2024 was Ben Bradley, followed by Steve Yemm. [7]

Communities and demography

The parish contains five historic settlements and three pit villages: [8]

Nearby settlements built to support local mining activities in the 20th century were:

At the 2001 census the overall parish had a population of 12,365, [9] reducing to 11,999 at the 2011 census, [10] and increasing to 12,644 in 2021. [2]

Landmarks

Warsop watermill was built in 1767. [11]

Warsop windmill, first called Forest Mill but also later known as Bradmer Mill, was a stone-built tower erected in 1825. It was 28 feet high with three storeys, a fourth storey being added later in brick. The mill had four sails, two of which were blown down by a gale in 1910, after which the mill was worked for a short time on the two remaining sails. By the 1920s the mill had lost all its sails and its cap. The tower is a Grade II listed building, standing to the southeast of Warsop close to the A6075. [12]

In 1930, Samuel Fell Wilson, a Warsop grocer, wine merchant, and publisher of the Warsop and District Almanack, was shot in the head and chest as he sat in his car outside the mill. [13] A street bears his name.

Warsop Town Hall was completed in 1933. [14]

In 2010, a new Market Cross was commissioned and erected at Downy Hill, on the southern edge of the town centre at the side of the A60 road. [15] Historically, a cross was known to have existed in the 1500s, and a replacement occurred in 1787. The foundations were excavated in 1911. [16]

Education

Warsop is home to Meden School on Burns Lane, part of a local group named Torch Academy Gateway Trust. [17] Former pupils include television hosts Pollyanna Woodward and Simon Mapletoft, Mansfield 103.2 presenter Jason Harrison, Breakfast Show host Joe Sentance on Rother FM/Dearne FM, ex-Everton footballer Neil Pointon, former England wicketkeeper Bruce French and his nephew, and current England and Nottinghamshire fast bowler Jake Ball. [18]

Transport

Warsop railway station operated between 1897 and 1955. There is some ambition for eventual reopening of the line currently freight only between Shirebrook and Warsop. [19]

Stagecoach bus 12 runs twice an hour between Shirebrook, Warsop and Mansfield. Stagecoach bus 11 also runs twice an hour between Meden Vale, Warsop and Mansfield, giving Warsop a bus service into Mansfield every 15 minutes. Another bus, numbered 209, runs between Edwinstowe and Worksop via Warsop and Cuckney every two hours. [20]

Media

Television signals are received from either the Emley Moor or Belmont TV transmitters. Local radio station are provided by BBC Radio Nottingham, Capital East Midlands, and Mansfield 103.2, a community based station which broadcast from Mansfield. [21] The town is served by the local newspaper, Mansfield and Ashfield Chad. [22]

In the news

In July 2012, local woman Charlotte Collinge was found guilty of the murder of her husband Clifford Collinge and was sentenced to 23 years. Her two male accomplices were both sentenced to 18 years. [23]

Following a re-trial in July 2015, Collinge was found not guilty, but the sentences on both accomplices were re-imposed. [24]

Local events

The parish holds an annual carnival on The Carrs playing fields, just off the main A60 road: it is traditionally scheduled on the first or second Sunday in July. [25]

See also

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References

  1. ↑ OS Explorer Map 270: Sherwood Forest: (1:25 000): ISBN   0 319 24040 1
  2. 1 2 UK Census (2021). "2021 Census Area Profile – Warsop parish (E04007876)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  3. ↑ "Mansfield Town Centre". Mansfield Council. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  4. ↑ "About the Council". Warsop Parish Council. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  5. ↑ The Local Government Boundary Commission for England Retrieved 3 June 2020
  6. ↑ The Parish Council, www.warsopparishcouncil.co.uk Retrieved 3 June 2020
  7. ↑ "Ben Bradley". UK Parliament. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  8. ↑ "Neighbourhood area".
  9. ↑ "Area: Warsop CP (Parish)"
  10. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  11. ↑ Historic England. "Warsop Mill (1251898)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  12. ↑ Shaw, T. (1995). Windmills of Nottinghamshire. Page 41. Nottingham: Nottinghamshire County Council. ISBN   0-900986-12-3
  13. ↑ Lomax, S. C. (2009). Unsolved Murders in and Around Derbyshire. Wharncliffe Books. ISBN   978-1845631147.
  14. ↑ "Warsop Town Hall 1933 - Present Day" (PDF). Warsop Parish News. 2020. p. 4. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  15. ↑ "New Warsop stone cross." Chad, 21 July 2010, p.28. Accessed 8 December 2024
  16. ↑ Monument record M5327 - Market Cross, S end of Market St, Market Warsop Nottinghamshire County Council. Accessed 8 December 2024
  17. ↑ Torch Academy Gateway Trust - schools in the trust Retrieved 2014-10-29
  18. ↑ "Warsop ace Jake Ball keeping 'mum' after leading Nottinghamshire to YB40 final at Lord's". Chad. 10 September 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  19. ↑ Lambourne, Helen (22 July 2009). "New bid to extend rail link to Ollerton". Worksop Today. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
  20. ↑ "209 Bus Route & Timetable: Worksop - Edwinstowe". Stagecoach. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  21. ↑ "Mansfield 103.2 FM" . Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  22. ↑ "Mansfield and Ashfield Chad". British Papers. 24 August 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  23. ↑ Clifford Collinge murder: Wife jailed for 23 years BBC News , 31 July 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2021
  24. ↑ Clifford Collinge widow Charlotte cleared after murder retrial BBC News , 3 July 2015. Retrieved 12 November 2021
  25. ↑ Chad, local newspaper, July 2014 Sun shines on Warsop Carnival Retrieved 2014-08-24
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