Church Warsop is a village in
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditi ...
, England. It is located 1 mile north of
Warsop
Warsop is a town and civil parish in the Mansfield district, Nottinghamshire, England, on the outskirts of the remnants of Sherwood Forest.OS Explorer Map 270: Sherwood Forest: (1:25 000): At the 2001 census it had a population of 12,365, reducin ...
and is within the Warsop civil parish.
The parish church of St Peter and St Paul is early Norman.
[Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1979. ''The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire''. page 364. Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin.]
The village was built in the 1926 by the
Staveley Coal and Iron Company
The Staveley Coal and Iron Company Limited was an industrial company based in Staveley, near Chesterfield, North Derbyshire.
History
The company was registered in 1863, appearing in provincial stock exchange reports from 1864. It exploited loc ...
to house colliery workers and their families working at their Warsop Main Colliery located in nearby Warsop Vale. There is also a second church, the "Chapel of Bethlem", from the same date as much of the village.
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Villages in Nottinghamshire
Mansfield District
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