28-559: Kirkby-in-Ashfield is a market town in the Ashfield District of Nottinghamshire , England. With a population of 25,265 (according to the 2001 National Census ), it is a part of the wider Mansfield Urban Area . The Head Offices of Ashfield District Council are located on Urban Road in the town centre. Kirkby-in-Ashfield lies on the eastern edge of the Erewash Valley which separates Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire . Kirkby, as it
56-548: A Morrisons store. A new indoor market – named Moor Market – was created in 2021 by internally joining adjacent small retail shops into a larger space. In 2021, a new leisure centre was developed including a swimming pool for the first time in Kirkby, partially on land originally purchased in 1935 by Kirkby Urban District Council, to replace the old Festival Hall. The town has two large secondary schools, Ashfield School and Outwood Academy Kirkby . Local politics were dominated by
84-805: A conservation area, and consists of former farm buildings built from local stone, some of which are listed. In the conservation area, at the junction of Church Street, Chapel Street and Sutton Road, is Kirkby Cross. This is the remains of a thirteenth-century village cross in dressed stone, and is a listed structure and designated ancient monument . The town receives its television signals from various regional transmitters: Waltham ( BBC East Midlands / ITV Central East), Belmont ( BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire / ITV Yorkshire ), and Sutton Coldfield ( BBC West Midlands /ITV Central West). Local radio stations are BBC Radio Nottingham on 95.5 FM, Capital East Midlands on 96.5 FM and community based station Mansfield 103.2 FM which broadcast from Mansfield . The town
112-456: A high level of socio-economic depression. In 2013, plans were introduced to create a new civic square from what was a car park. Nearby permanent market stalls were removed in October 2014. The town centre underwent further upgrading, starting in late 2014 and 2015 to include the demolition of the old Co-Operative foodstore and county library with surrounding pedestrian plaza , to be rebuilt with
140-466: A house in 1598 in Kirkby. Kirkby-in-Ashfield was once an important centre of coal mining and railways in west Nottinghamshire, with three active coal mines and several railway junctions. The former Mansfield and Pinxton Railway from the Erewash Valley Line was joined here by the later Midland Railway line from Nottingham . The Great Central Railway main line passed to the south-west side of
168-645: A substantial vote, and the Conservatives took the seat despite achieving fewer votes and a smaller percentage of the total vote than in 2017. When the MP Lee Anderson left the Tories to become an independent and then subsequently join Reform UK , he contested it once again in the 2024 election , managing to win it for the party due to their message resounding with the predominantly pro-Brexit electorate and Anderson having
196-605: Is an unparished area . The largest settlement is Sutton-in-Ashfield . Towns and villages in the district include the following: The Ashfield District is served by BBC East Midlands and ITV Central with television signals receives from the Waltham TV transmitter. Northern parts of the district around Sutton-in-Ashfield and Kirkby-in-Ashfield receives better signals from the Emley Moor TV transmitter that broadcast BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire (West) programmes and
224-515: Is locally known, was originally a Danish settlement (Kirk-by translates as 'Church Town' in Danish) and is a collection of small villages including Old Kirkby, The Folly (East Kirkby), Nuncargate and Kirkby Woodhouse. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book and has two main churches: St Wilfrid's , a Norman church, which was gutted by fire on 6 January 1907 but quickly re-built; and St Thomas' , built in
252-579: Is served by the local newspaper, Mansfield and Ashfield Chad . Ashfield District Ashfield ( / ˈ æ ʃ ˌ f iː l d / ) is a local government district in Nottinghamshire , England. The council is based in Kirkby-in-Ashfield , but the largest town is neighbouring Sutton-in-Ashfield . The district also contains the town of Hucknall and a few villages. The district is mostly urban, with some of its settlements forming parts of both
280-672: The 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies , and reflecting the local government boundary review in the District of Mansfield which came into effect in May 2023, the constituency is composed of the following with effect from the 2024 general election : The parts in the Borough of Broxtowe were transferred to the Broxtowe constituency and the parts in Mansfield District were transferred from
308-449: The Belmont transmitter broadcasting BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and ITV Yorkshire (East) programmes. Radio stations that broadcast the area are: The Ashfield District is served by the local newspaper, Mansfield and Ashfield Chad . 53°03′N 1°18′W / 53.05°N 1.30°W / 53.05; -1.30 Ashfield (UK Parliament constituency)#Elections in
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#1732851750617336-613: The Conservative Party , from 1977 to 1979 . Ashfield's 2019 result indicates quite a large Conservative majority . In 2010, the seat had a marginal majority of only 192 votes over the Liberal Democrats , but that was increased to 8,820 in 2015 after a collapse in the Liberal Democrat vote, with the Conservatives finishing in second place. In 2017, there was another narrow margin of victory for Labour after an 8.9% swing to
364-524: The Labour Party , until many of them switched to the Conservative Party in the 2019 general election . In the 2016 referendum on membership of the European Union , Ashfield voted 70% in favour of Brexit . The seat contains the market towns of Kirkby-in-Ashfield , Sutton-in-Ashfield and Huthwaite . Coal mining was formerly a significant part of the local economy. Electoral Calculus categorises
392-459: The Mansfield constituency. Until the Conservatives gained the seat at the 2019 general election, it had almost always been a Labour Party seat since its creation for the 1955 general election . The Ashfield constituency has been served by a former Secretary of State, Geoff Hoon , and, since its creation until 2019, for only two years has been served by one member of another party, Tim Smith of
420-537: The Nottingham and Mansfield Urban Areas . The neighbouring districts are Mansfield , Newark and Sherwood , Gedling , Nottingham , Broxtowe , Amber Valley and Bolsover . The district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 , covering the whole of three former districts and of part of a fourth, which were all abolished at the same time: The new district was named Ashfield, being
448-751: The 2010s Ashfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament . It is in the English county of Nottinghamshire , East Midlands , to the north-west of the city of Nottingham , in the Erewash Valley along the border with neighbouring county Derbyshire . Ashfield was part of the Red Wall , a group of constituencies in the Midlands and Northern England which formerly almost always voted for
476-487: The Borough of Broxtowe wards of Brinsley, Eastwood East, Eastwood North, and Eastwood South. 2010–2024 : The District of Ashfield wards of Jacksdale, Kirkby-in-Ashfield Central, Kirkby-in-Ashfield East, Kirkby-in-Ashfield West, Selston, Sutton-in-Ashfield Central, Sutton-in-Ashfield East, Sutton-in-Ashfield North, Sutton-in-Ashfield West, Underwood, and Woodhouse, and the Borough of Broxtowe wards of Brinsley, Eastwood North and Greasley Beauvale, and Eastwood South. Following
504-550: The Conservatives, who squeezed most of the fairly substantial UKIP vote from two years earlier, and also a large vote for the Ashfield Independents candidate of nearly 10%, but Labour on that occasion did just enough to hang on by just over 400 votes. In 2019, the Ashfield Independents candidate Jason Zadrozny , who had come close to winning the seat for the Liberal Democrats nine years earlier, came second with
532-508: The Labour Party for much of the 20th century; however, Ashfield attracted media attention in the late 1970s with a shock by-election win for the Conservatives. From the 2010 General Election until her stepping down in 2019, the MP was Gloria De Piero , best known for her work with GMTV. She took over from Geoff Hoon , one-time Secretary of State for Defence during the premiership of Tony Blair . She
560-644: The Rural District of Basford the parishes of Annesley, Bestwood Park, Brinsley, Felley, Linby, Newstead, Papplewick, and Selston. 1974–1983 : The Urban Districts of Hucknall, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, and Sutton-in-Ashfield, and in the Rural District of Basford the parishes of Annesley, Felley, and Selston. 1983–2010 : The District of Ashfield wards of Jacksdale, Kirkby-in-Ashfield Central, Kirkby-in-Ashfield East, Kirkby-in-Ashfield West, Selston, Sutton-in-Ashfield Central, Sutton-in-Ashfield East, Sutton-in-Ashfield North, Sutton-in-Ashfield West, Underwood, and Woodhouse, and
588-605: The council has comprised 35 councillors representing 23 wards , with each ward electing one, two or three councillors. Elections are held every four years. The council is based at the Council Offices on Urban Road in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, completed in 1986 on a site behind the old headquarters (built 1933) of one of the council's predecessors, the Kirkby-in-Ashfield Urban District Council, with
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#1732851750617616-421: The council was held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities before coming into its powers on 1 April 1974. Political control of the council since 1974 has been as follows: The leaders of the council since 2007 have been: Following the 2023 election the composition of the council was: The next election is due in 2027. Since the last boundary changes in 2015
644-627: The early 1910s in neo-gothic style. Kirkby Manor dated back to the 13th Century. Its owner in 1284 Robert de Stuteville was fined by King Edward I for not attending the Royal summons. However, in 1292 Robert clearly forgiven, hosted the king at the manor to a nights stay. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in 1530, travelled through Sutton in Ashfield having been recalled to London by King Henry VIII , before he stayed at nearby Kirkby Hardwick. Charles Cavendish (landowner, born 1553) son of Bess of Hardwick had built
672-431: The old building now being known as Ada Lovelace House. The new building was officially opened in October 1986 by Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester . There are just three civil parishes in the district, being Annesley , Felley and Selston . Annesley and Felley share a grouped parish council. The rest of the district, corresponding to the pre-1974 urban districts of Hucknall, Kirkby-in-Ashfield and Sutton-in-Ashfield,
700-477: The seat as having socially conservative views and economically soft-left views alongside strong support for Brexit . Around 57% of the constituency is deprived , slightly higher than the national average of 52%, according to the site. The average age is 50.8, at least 80% of the local population owns a car, whilst 68% own a home, and the gross household income is £35,124. 1955–1974 : The Urban Districts of Eastwood, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, and Sutton-in-Ashfield, and in
728-417: The shared suffix of two of the towns' names. Ashfield District Council provides district-level services. County-level services are provided by Nottinghamshire County Council . Parts of the district are also covered by civil parishes , which form a third tier of local government. Local party the Ashfield Independents has held a majority of the seats on the council since 2019. The first election to
756-616: The town and had a double junction with the Great Northern Railway Leen Valley Extension line to Langwith Junction and the Mansfield Railway to Clipstone . The town has been served by four stations. Only one is now open: The town rapidly expanded during the Victorian era. However the closure of the coal mines in the 1980s and early 1990s led to a major slump in the local economy, and the area then suffered
784-616: Was elected with a very slim majority of 192 votes from the Liberal Democrats' Jason Zadrozny . In 2019, Conservative Lee Anderson won the seat. The town's most famous historical resident is Harold Larwood ; the England cricketer who was born in Nuncargate in 1904, best known for his bodyline bowling in the Ashes Test series of 1932–33. The area around St Wilfrid's Church is designated
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