| Mansfield | |
  Mansfield shown within Nottinghamshire |
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| Population | 169,987 |
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| OS grid reference | |
| District | Mansfield (district) |
| Shire county | Nottinghamshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | MANSFIELD |
| Postcode district | NG18, NG19 |
| Dialling code | 01623 |
| Police | Nottinghamshire |
| Fire | Nottinghamshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| European Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | Mansfield |
| List of places: UK • England • Nottinghamshire | |
Mansfield is a town in Nottinghamshire, England. A town is a type of settlement ranging from a few to several thousand (occasionally hundreds of thousands inhabitants although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland It is the largest town in the county, lying on the River Maun, from which the name of the town is derived. A county is a Land area of Regional Government within a larger State. The River Maun is a River in Nottinghamshire, England. Its source lies near Sutton-in-Ashfield, and from there it flows north east through [1] It is the main town in the Mansfield local government district. Mansfield is a local government district in Nottinghamshire, England. Mansfield town at the heart of the conurbation has a population of 169,987. A conurbation is an Urban area or Agglomeration comprising a number of Cities, large Towns and larger urban areas that through Population In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology The District of Mansfield has a population of 100,000. The rest of the Urban Area's population live in the neighbouring boroughs of Bolsover, Ashfield and Newark and Sherwood. Bolsover is a town in Derbyshire, England, near Chesterfield. Ashfield is a local government district in western Nottinghamshire, England. Newark and Sherwood is a local government district of eastern Nottinghamshire, England. The town is surrounded by a pocket of hills within the Maun Valley.
Mansfield is a part of the Mansfield Urban Area. The Mansfield Urban Area is an area of west Nottinghamshire that comprises the towns of Mansfield, Sutton in Ashfield, Kirkby in Ashfield and
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Economy
Mansfield has a large market square and, focused around the market, a large commercial centre including a museum, the Palace Theatre, and numerous pubs, bars and night clubs. A marketplace is the space actual or metaphorical in which a Market operates Sao Paulo Stock Exchangejpg|thumb| Virtual market arena where buyer and seller are not present and trade via intemediates and electronical information The Palace Theatre in Mansfield, England first opened in 1910 as a cinema. A nightclub (or "night club" or "club" is a drinking, dancing, and entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark
Mansfield was originally the home of Mansfield Brewery, once the largest independent brewer in the UK. The brewery was acquired by Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries for £253m in October 1999, with production of the Mansfield range of ales moving to other parts of the country. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Ale is a type of Beer brewed from Malted Barley using a top-fermenting Brewers' yeast. The brewery's physical assets were later sold on to Pubmaster Ltd, and the former site of the brewery is now derelict.
Several urban regeneration projects are underway in Mansfield, including reconstruction of the nearby Kings Mill Hospital. Urban Renewal (similar to Urban Regeneration in British English) is a controversial U
Famous inhabitants
The television presenter Richard Bacon, Adam Kingswood (from BBC TV's The Truth About Property) and professional golfers Oliver Wilson and Greg Owen come from Mansfield. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic Richard Bacon (born in Mansfield England, 30 November 1975) is an English television and radio presenter Results in major championships Team appearances Amateur Walker Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland 2003 (winners Gregory Clive Owen (born 19 February 1972) is an English Golfer Owen was born in Mansfield England. The singer Alvin Stardust lived there as a child. Alvin Stardust (born Bernard William Jewry, 27 September 1942, Muswell Hill, North London) is an English Pop Classical pianist John Ogdon was born in the suburb of Mansfield Woodhouse in 1937. A pianist (/'piənɪst/ is a Musician who plays the Piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces play with an ensemble or Orchestra John Andrew Howard Ogdon ( January 27 1937 &ndash August 1 1989) was an English Pianist and Composer. Mansfield Woodhouse is a small town about 2 km north of Mansfield itself in Nottinghamshire, England. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Mark Holmes, lead singer of the Canadian New Wave/stadium rock group Platinum Blonde, was born and partly raised there. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario New Wave is a Rock music genre that existed during the late 1970s and the 1980s Platinum Blonde was a Canadian New Wave group in the 1980s The band originally consisted of Manchester [2] Mansfield is also the home of the Cantamus Girls Choir, World Choir Olympics champions. The Cantamus Girls Choir is a Choir based in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and consists of approximately forty girls aged between
The ancestral home of Lord Byron, Newstead Abbey, is located not far away in Ravenshead. Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire, England, originally an Augustinian priory is now best known as the ancestral home of Lord Byron. Ravenshead is a village and Civil parish in the Gedling district of Nottinghamshire, England.
Transport
Buses in Mansfield are primarily operated by Stagecoach, with Trent Barton, Veolia Transport (Dunn-Line) and Unity Coaches also operating in the area. Stagecoach in Mansfield is the sector of the Stagecoach Group that operates buses in Mansfield. Trent Barton is one of the very small number of significant independent bus operators in the UK. Veolia Transportation (formerly Connex) is the international transport services division of the French -based multinational company Veolia Environnement The town's bus station is often cited by locals as one of the very worst places in England to spend time waiting for transport. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Planning permission has been given to develop a new bus station on the station road car park and is estimates to cost the region approx £7 million. The bus station, built in 1977, handles around 1,500 buses and 16,000 passenger arrivals a day. It is the busiest bus station in the county outside the City of Nottingham, but does not offer an attractive waiting environment and has poor pedestrian links to the town centre. The new bus station is an attempt for redevelopment of the old bus station site to enhance Mansfield town centre, and to regenerate the whole of the Stockwell Gate area. Potential improvements could include a fully enclosed waiting area; automatic doors for comfort and safety, a tourist information centre, electronic bus and rail departure information, toilets and baby changing facilities, tower with lift and stairs to an elevated walkway connecting to the rail station and bus driver's facilities.
The town is the northern terminus of the A38, which runs from Bodmin in Cornwall and is the longest 'A' road entirely within England. The A38 is a major Trunk road in England. Though formally known as the Exeter - Leeds Trunk Road it actually runs from Bodmin in Cornwall Bodmin (Bosvenegh is a Town in Cornwall, United Kingdom, with a population of 12778 (2001 census
West Bank Avenue, situated adjacent to the Tesco Extra on Chesterfield Road South, is also the steepest road in the county with a gradient of 22%, local radio presenters Andi Proffitt and Helen Robinson once lived on this road during their time at Radio Mansfield in the 1990s. This is one of numerous very steep roads outside the town centre, which itself is relatively flat and easily accessible on foot.
The town also has good road links. Mansfield can be reached within around 10 minutes from junctions 27,28 and 29 of the M1, and is situated around 18 miles from the A1 at neighbouring Newark-upon-Trent.
Mansfield railway station is a stop on the Robin Hood Line, a relatively new rail link connecting the town with Nottingham and Worksop. Mansfield railway station serves the large town of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, England. History The current Robin Hood Line never previously existed as it does now it being formed from two formerly separate railways Nottingham ( is a city in the Ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire, England. Worksop is a town in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England on the River Ryton at the northern edge of Sherwood Forest Before the introduction of the Robin Hood Line in the 1990s, Mansfield was the largest town in Europe without a railway station. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 |}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which Passengers may board and alight from Trains - all the more remarkable because the town pioneered the railway in the East Midlands. The East Midlands is one of the Regions of England and consists of most of the eastern half of the traditional region of the Midlands.
The town was originally the terminus of the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, built as a horse-drawn plateway in 1819 and one of the first acquisitions of the newly-formed Midland Railway. The Mansfield and Pinxton Railway was an early horse-drawn railway company in the United Kingdom, constructed in 1819 to transport coal between Mansfield and the head A plateway is an early kind of railway or tramway or Wagonway, with a Cast iron rail. Year 1819 ( MDCCCXIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar in the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year The Midland Railway (MR was a Railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1844 to 1922 when it became part of the London Midland and Scottish The Midland used the final section to extend its new Leen Valley line to the present station in 1849. Year 1849 ( MDCCCXLIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common In 1882 the Great Northern Railway opened a station on a branch from Bulwell on its Derbyshire Extension. Year 1882 ( MDCCCLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Great Northern Railway (GNR was a British railway company established by the London & York Railway Act of 1846 Bulwell is an English Market town which lies approximately 45 miles northwest of Nottingham city centre on the northern edge of the city boundary
Thus, prior to the 1970s, the town had two railway stations: the LNER (former GNR) line on Great Central Road, near Ratcliffe Gate, and the LMSR (Former Midland) line on Station Road, near Belvedere Street. From the early 1950s, however, the LNER line ceased carrying passengers and remained as a freight only line; and in the 1970s the former LMSR line ceased to travel via Mansfield.
A tram service operated between 1905 and 1932, run by Mansfield & District Light Railways. Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Mansfield & District Light Railways was a tramway network operating in Mansfield from 16 July 1905 to 9 October 1932.
Sport
Mansfield is home to Mansfield Town, who are known as the Stags. Mansfield Town Football Club are an English football club who from the 2008&ndash09 season will compete in the Conference National. They were relegated to the Blue Square Premier after 77 years in the Football League at the end of the 2007/08 season. Conference National (currently named the Blue Square Premier for sponsorship reasons is the top division of the Football Conference. The Football League, also known as the Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons is a league competition featuring professional football clubs The team's traditional rival is the nearby town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire. Chesterfield is a historic Market town and local government district in Derbyshire, a County in England. History The area that is now Derbyshire was first visited probably briefly by humans 200000 years ago during the Aveley Interglacial as evidenced by a Middle The rivalry between the two clubs is considered among the fiercest in the lower leagues. Some Yorkshire folk still associate Mansfield with failure to support the UK miners' Strike (1984-1985); football matches between Mansfield Town: Barnsley, Rotherham United, and Doncaster Rovers have seen fans of the latter chant "scab". Yorkshire is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Barnsley is a town in South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Dearne, north of the city of Sheffield, and west of Doncaster Rotherham United Football Club (also known as 'The Millers' are an English professional football club temporarily based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Doncaster Rovers Football Club (or informally Donny) are an English football club based at the Keepmoat Stadium in the town of Doncaster
Angling is well supported in the Mansfield district, where ponds remain from the former textile milling industry. Angling is a method of Fishing by means of an "angle" ( hook)
Entertainment
Palace Theatre
The Palace Theatre is located on Leeming Street and is the towns primary entertainment venue. The Palace Theatre in Mansfield, England first opened in 1910 as a cinema. Built as a cinema in 1910, it was originally known as the Palace Electric Theatre and was later adapted to a proscenium arch theatre presenting live shows. Proscenium theatre is a Theatre space whose primary feature is a large Archway (the proscenium arch) at or near the front of the stage, through It has also been known as the Civic Hall and Civic Theatre before the current name was revived in the 1990s. With a seating capacity of 534, the theatre is a mid scale touring venue presenting a programme of both professional and amateur productions.
Intake Club
The Intake Club is a Carling Live music venue located on Kirkland Avenue in Mansfield town centre. Carling Live is a program of sponsorship and promotion of live music by Carling who are the Brewery most associated with live music in the UK. The venue has three Bars and a gig room with a stage and capacity for 450 patrons. The full capacity of the Venue is 700. A number of leading bands have played at the club including Feeder, Deathstars, Fightstar, Witchfynde, Hayseed Dixie, Hardcore Superstar, Wishbone Ash, The Hamsters, John Parr and Vampires Rock and local bands including Rankin Steady, SkyRockers, RockMelon and World Wide Waste. Feeder are a British rock band formed in Newport, South Wales in 1992 by singer /songwriter/ Guitarist Grant Nicholas Deathstars is an Industrial metal band formed in Sweden in January 2000 Fightstar are a four-piece Post-hardcore band from London, England. Witchfynde is a heavy metal band that was one of the forerunners of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. Hayseed Dixie is an American band described as "A Hillbilly tribute to AC/DC. Hardcore Superstar is a Hard rock and Glam metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. Wishbone Ash are a British rock band who achieved particular success in the early and mid-1970s with their most critically acclaimed records including The Hamsters are a UK band originating from Southend on Sea in Essex. John Parr (born 18 November 1954, in Worksop Nottinghamshire) is a British Musician. Vampires Rock is a musical stage show which premiered in 2004. The club also hosts the annual CAMRA Mansfield Beer Festival.
Media
The local newspaper is the Chad (Formerly Chronicle Advertiser). Mansfield is home to one radio station, Mansfield 103.2 broadcast from the Fishpond's Hill transmitter on Skegby Lane which also broadcasts Mansfield versions of the Nottingham stations Radio Nottingham and 96 Trent FM on 95. Mansfield 1032 FM is an Independent Local Radio station in Mansfield Nottinghamshire Trent FM is an Independent Local Radio station which broadcasts from Nottingham in the United Kingdom. 5 and 96. 5 FM respectively.
Due to its close proximity to many large towns in the Yorkshire/Midlands region Mansfield residents can also listen to the following local radio stations:
BBC Radio Leeds 92. 4
BBC Radio Sheffield 94. 7 & 104. 1
BBC Radio Lincolnshire 94. 9
BBC Radio Derby 104. 5
BBC Radio Leicester 104. 9
and a wealth of commercial FM stations:
Viking FM (Hull) 96. 9
Radio Faza (Nottingham) 97. 1
Hallam FM (Sheffield) 97. 4 & 103. 4
Kemet FM (Nottingham) 97. 5
Heart (West Midlands) 100. 7
Smooth FM (East Midlands) 101. 4 & 106. 6
Lincs FM (Lincolnshire) 102. 2
The Pulse (West Yorkshire) 102. 5
Ram FM (Derby) 102. 8
The Eye (Melton Mowbray) 103. 0
Minster FM (York) 104. 7
Galaxy FM (Yorkshire Region) 105. 1 & 105. 8
Leicester Sound 105. 4
Heart (East Midlands) 106. 0
Real Radio (Yorkshire Region) 106. 2
Peak FM (Chesterfield) 107. 4
Dawn FM (Nottingham) 107. 6
Trax FM (Worksop) 107. 9
DAB broadcasts from Fishpond's Hill began on 21 July 2006 with the NOW Nottingham multiplex, subsequently the Digital One and BBC National muxes were also added (during 2006-07) to give excellent digital radio reception across the town.
Television reception in Mansfield however is a different story. Television reception has often been problematic due to the location of the town being in between regions. Historically Mansfield has always been part of the BBC North and Yorkshire Television region. Between 20 December 1965 and 31 December 1973 Mansfield was part of the Anglia Television region (until Belmont began transmitting Yorkshire Television)
However since the arrival of Diamond Cable (formerly ntl, and now Virgin Media) in 1995, BBC East Midlands and Central East were provided, and since regionalisation of SKY digital many residents can now watch BBC East Midlands and ITV Central East which are the default regions for this area and appear on channels 101 and 103.
The Belmont transmitter provides the best reception to most of the town offering analogue and digital TV, and is the most frequently used transmitter in the town providing BBC East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire and ITV Yorkshire (East)
Emley Moor is also receivable, and in some areas of the town offers better reception than Belmont, providing BBC Yorkshire & North Midlands and Yorkshire Television (West).
Whilst Yorkshire Television's news programme "Calendar" still covers Mansfield, BBC Look North has for many years refused to cover the town insisting that Mansfield belongs in the BBC East Midlands region (though few homes get acceptable terrestrial reception of BBC East Midlands).
Many homes do have dual aerials with one pointing at Belmont (or in some places Emley Moor) and the other at Waltham (East Midlands), the latter which usually gives a far inferior picture quality, but was often used in the days when ITV had more regional variations so that Mansfield folk could keep up with local news and sport. Dual aerial systems are largely being phased out as they will not work for reception of digital terrestrial TV in addition to the East Midlands variations being available through cable and satellite, but many still remain from the 1990s and late 1980s.
Other transmitters serving Mansfield include:
Emley Moor- BBC Yorkshire & Yorkshire (West)
Sutton Coldfield- BBC Midlands & Central (West) and
Bilsdale- BBC North East & Tyne Tees (South)
All three transmitters provide good signals across the town- in many cases providing superior reception to Waltham. With the correct aerial it is also possible to pick up Granada Television from Winter Hill, though the picture is usually very poor quality.
During an episode of CBBC's 'Dick n Dom in Da Bungalow', one of their games which consisted of sticking pictures of themselves on the backs of members of the public, was broadcast from Mansfield High Street.
Politics
Mansfield is notable for being one of the few towns in the United Kingdom with a directly-elected Mayor. Directly elected mayors are local government leaders elected by the general electorate rather than by the local council
Alan Meale (born Joseph Alan Meale) has been the Labour constituent Member of Parliament since 1987. Prior to this, Mr. Meale had been a member of the Socialist Campaign Group.
Criticisms
D. H. Lawrence, in Lady Chatterley's Lover, described Mansfield as "that once romantic now utterly disheartening colliery town". David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930 was an English writer of the 20th century whose prolific and diverse output included Novels short Lady Chatterley's Lover is a Novel by D H Lawrence written in 1928 [3]
The 2005 and 2007 editions of Channel 4's programme The Best and Worst Places to Live in the UK named Mansfield as the sixth and ninth worst place to live in Britain. Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began [4]
Twin towns
Mansfield, Ohio, United States- Mansfield, Massachusetts, United States
Mansfieldtown, Ireland
Heiligenhaus, Germany
Reutov, Russia
Stryj, Ukraine
See also
References
- ^ [1]. Mansfield is a city in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Richland County. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Mansfield is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Mansfieldstown is a Townland between Castlebellingham and Tallanstown in County Louth, Ireland. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Heiligenhaus is a town in the district of Mettmann, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the suburban Rhine-Ruhr area Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Reutov (Реутов is a town in Moscow Oblast in Russia, located 12 Km east of Moscow. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Stryi (Стрий Polish: Stryj also known as Stryy Stryia and Stry is a City located on the left bank of the Stryi River in the Lviv Oblast Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. Mansfield Town Football Club are an English football club who from the 2008&ndash09 season will compete in the Conference National. The Cantamus Girls Choir is a Choir based in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and consists of approximately forty girls aged between ‘’’Portland College’’’ is an education establishment in the county of Nottinghamshire. Ashfield District council site]
- ^ The PLATINUM BLONDE Web Site
- ^ Lawrence, D. H. : Lady Chatterley's Lover, Chapter 16. Lady Chatterley's Lover is a Novel by D H Lawrence written in 1928 1928.
- ^ BBC news story
External links
- Mansfield's government site
- Mansfield's tourism site
- Further info on local fishing and mill history
- Mansfield Investment Site
- Intake Club - official website
- Palace Theatre - official website