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Warsop is a town and civil parish 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, 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, 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. Warsop retains a council, as a successor parish, including the localities of Market Warsop, Church Warsop, Meden Vale, Warsop Vale and Spion Kop. The council is based at Warsop Town Hall. 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 * Church Warsop, north of the Meden *
Sookholme Sookholme is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Warsop 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 M ...
, 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: * Meden Vale, in the north east * Warsop Vale to the north west. * Spion Kop in the south of the parish sited along a short stretch of the A60 road was expanded from a rural base.


Landmarks

Warsop watermill was built in 1767. 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 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 Meden School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form in Market Warsop, Nottinghamshire, England, with 860 pupils at the Ofsted report of 2014, of which 116 were sixth-formers. The school is a member of the Nova Education Trust, which includes ...
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 Mansfield 103.2 FM is an Independent Local Radio station in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, serving the areas of Mansfield and Ashfield in Nottinghamshire and nearby Bolsover in Derbyshire. It was launched in 1999 after winning a licence to br ...
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.


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. 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 and Worksop via Warsop and Cuckney 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: 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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