Warsop is a town and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the

Mansfield Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market tow ...

district,

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, on the outskirts of the remnants of

Sherwood Forest Sherwood Forest is a royal forest in Nottinghamshire, England, famous because of its historic association with the legend of Robin Hood. The area has been wooded since the end of the Last Glacial Period (as attested by pollen sampling cores ...

.OS Explorer Map 270: Sherwood Forest: (1:25 000): At the 2001 census it had a population of 12,365, reducing to 11,999 at the 2011 Census including Church Warsop, Meden Vale and Spion Kop.

Governance

The parish was an

urban district Urban district may refer to: * District * Urban area * Quarter (urban subdivision) * Neighbourhood Specific subdivisions in some countries: * Urban districts of Denmark * Urban districts of Germany * Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland) (hist ...

in Nottinghamshire until 1974, when it joined with Mansfield Borough and Woodhouse Urban District Council to form

Mansfield District Council Mansfield District is a local government district in Nottinghamshire, England. Its council is based in the town of Mansfield. The district is bounded by the districts of Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood and Gedling, as well as the Derbyshire distr ...

. Warsop retains a council, as a

successor parish Successor parishes are civil parishes with a parish council, created in England in 1974. They replaced, with the same boundaries, a selected group of urban districts and municipal boroughs: a total of 300 successor parishes were formed from the fo ...

, including the localities of Market Warsop,

Church Warsop Church Warsop is a village in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located 1 mile north of Warsop 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:No ...

Meden Vale Meden Vale is a small former coal mining village originally known as Welbeck Colliery Village prior to renaming in the late 1960s. It is situated close to the small town of Market Warsop, in north Nottinghamshire, England, off the main A60 Ma ...

, Warsop Vale and Spion Kop. The council is based at

Warsop Town Hall Warsop Town Hall is a municipal building in Church Street in Warsop, Nottinghamshire, England. The building is home to Warsop Parish Council, and was formerly the offices of Warsop Urban District, Warsop Urban District Council and the local offi ...

. 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. Warsop is a part of the Mansfield Parliamentary Constituency since 2010, whose MP since 2017 is Ben Bradley.

Communities

The parish contains a number of historic settlements: * Market Warsop, the largest area at the centre, south of the River Meden *

, north of the Meden * Sookholme, to the west of the parish * Nettleworth Manor, in the south west * Gleadthorpe Grange to the far north east. Nearby villages built to support local mining activities in the 20th century were: *

, in the north east *

Warsop Vale Warsop Vale is a small village in the Mansfield district of western Nottinghamshire, England. It is north west of London, north of the county town and city of Nottingham, and north of the town of Mansfield. It is in the civil parish of War ...

to the north west. * Spion Kop in the south of the parish sited along a short stretch of the

A60 road The A60 is a road linking Loughborough in Leicestershire, England, with Doncaster in South Yorkshire, via Nottingham. ...

was expanded from a rural base.

Landmarks

Warsop watermill was built in 1767. Warsop

windmill A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called windmill sail, sails or blades, specifically to mill (grinding), mill grain (gristmills), but the term is also extended to windpumps, wind turbines, and ...

, 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 In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

building, standing to the southeast of Warsop close to the A6075. 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. Warsop Town Hall was completed in 1933.

Education

Warsop is home to Meden School on Burns Lane, part of a local group named ''Torch Academy Gateway Trust''. Former pupils include television hosts

Pollyanna Woodward Pollyanna Woodward (born 11 June 1982) is a British television presenter, best known for being a co-presenter on Channel 5's ''The Gadget Show''. Career The youngest of six children, aged 16 she was offered a place at the Carlton Television J ...

and Simon Mapletoft, Mansfield 103.2 presenter Jason Harrison, Breakfast Show host Joe Sentance on

Rother FM Rother FM was a local radio station serving Rotherham. The station was folded into Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire, as part of a rebrand, on 1 September 2020. Studios and coverage Rother FM was originally based in Rotherham but later moved to Don ...

Dearne FM Dearne FM was a local radio station serving Barnsley. The station was folded into Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire, as part of a rebrand, on 1 September 2020. History The station was based at Zenith Park on Whaley Road, Barugh Green, in the north ...

, ex- Everton footballer

Neil Pointon Neil Geoffrey Pointon (born 28 November 1964) is an English former professional footballer. Pointon was a left-back who is perhaps best remembered for playing for Everton, Manchester City and Oldham Athletic. Career Pointon began his career a ...

, former

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wicketkeeper Bruce French and his nephew, and current England and

fast bowler Jake Ball.

Transport

Warsop railway station Warsop railway station is a former railway station in Market Warsop, Nottinghamshire, England. History The station was opened by the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway in March 1897 and closed by British Railways in 1955. The sta ...

operated between 1897 and 1955. There is some ambition for eventual reopening of the line currently freight only between Shirebrook and Warsop. Stagecoach bus 12 runs twice an hour between

Shirebrook Shirebrook is a town in the Bolsover district in Derbyshire, England. Close to the boundaries with the districts of Mansfield and Bassetlaw of Nottinghamshire,OS Explorer Map 270: Sherwood Forest: (1:25 000): it had a population of 13,300 in ...

, 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 Edwinstowe is a large village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England, on the edge of Sherwood Forest. It is associated with the legends of Robin Hood and Maid Marian and known for the proximity of the f ...

and

Worksop Worksop ( ) is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located east-south-east of Sheffield, close to Nottinghamshire's borders with South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, on the River Ryton and not far from the nor ...

via Warsop and

Cuckney Cuckney is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Norton and Cuckney, in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England, located between Worksop and Market Warsop. The A60 road connects Market Warsop and Cuckney via Cuck ...

every two hours.

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

Local events

The parish holds an annual

carnival Carnival is a Catholic Christian festive season that occurs before the liturgical season of Lent. The main events typically occur during February or early March, during the period historically known as Shrovetide (or Pre-Lent). Carnival typi ...

on The Carrs playing fields, just off the main

A60 road The A60 is a road linking Loughborough in Leicestershire, England, with Doncaster in South Yorkshire, via Nottingham. ...

: it is traditionally scheduled on the first or second Sunday in July.Chad, local newspaper, July 2014 ''Sun shines on Warsop Carnival''
Retrieved 2014-08-24

References

External links

Warsop Parish Council homepageWarsop area Community page
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