41-451: The Sherwood Forest Foursomes Tournament was a professional golf tournament played at Sherwood Forest Golf Club near Mansfield , Nottinghamshire in England . The event was held just once, on 28 and 29 August 1959, and had total prize money of £2,100. The event was sponsored by Sir Stuart Goodwin , a Yorkshire steel industrialist. A total of 48 players qualified for the final stage through
82-527: A crowd-funded town centre Wi-Fi internet installation costing £37,000. In 2012, Mansfield Constituency Labour Party criticised the BID for receiving almost a million pounds in its first three years, with little to show for it. Among Mansfield's retail outlets is the Four Seasons shopping centre created in 1973–1976, with over 50 units occupied by national chains and phone shops. Rosemary Centre, built as
123-522: A trailer park , Mansfield planning department refused further consent in October 2015. One local councillor suggested it could be turned into a town farm , but instead a rented housing development was completed by 2021. The older ornate office building 'Chadburn House' initially housed an interactive learning centre from 2002. It closed in April 2015, and was turned into office space for businesses, including
164-485: A large weaving shed in 1907 by John Harwood Cash and converted to retail in 1984, is a pedestrianised area off the town centre with a covered streetside parade. There are also three outdoor retail parks, two with adjacent branded fast-food outlets. In April 2023, a planning application to demolish the Rosemary Centre to build a Lidl supermarket and another retail unit was approved. East Midlands Designer Outlet
205-533: A manor in Mansfield. King William the Conqueror later owned two carucates, five sochmans, and thirty-five villains; twenty borders, with nineteen carucates and a half in demesne, a mill, piscary, twenty-four acres of meadow and pasture' in Mansfield. In 1066, William made Sherwood Forest a Royal Forest for hunting. In the time of Henry II of England , the king visited what is now known as Kings Mill, staying at
246-517: A photograph of then US President Ronald Reagan and the tagline: "He might be president of the most powerful nation on earth... but he's never had a pint of Mansfield." "Not much matches Mansfield" was also used and became the title for a play set in the town, written by Kevin Fegan for the Mansfield Arts Festival. A similar 1989 advert contained the wording "He might be the life and soul of
287-573: A regional system of 36-hole individual stroke-play. These 48 were drawn into 24 pairs for the final stage. There were four rounds of stroke-play. Dennis Smalldon , one of the winning pair, died two weeks later after being injured in a road-traffic accident on 6 September. Mansfield Mansfield / ˈ m æ n s f iː l d / is a market town and the administrative centre of the Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire , England. It
328-523: Is Grade II listed. St Lawrence the Martyr Church on Skerry Hill was built in 1909 and is Grade II listed. St Philip Neri Church is a Roman Catholic Church on Chesterfield Road South. A Quaker Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends is on Rosemary Street. Mansfield has a large market place within its commercial and retail centre. Until 2016, there was also market trading at
369-518: Is Mansfield Library, officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1977 and refurbished in 2012. St Peter and St Paul's Church is a Grade I listed building . It is mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 and was mostly built by the Normans . St Johns Church , a Grade II listed building, was built in 1854 and designed by Henry Isaac Stevens . St Mark's Church was built in 1897; the church building
410-650: Is in South Normanton , near Mansfield. The headquarters of the Mansfield District Council at Chesterfield Road South were purpose-built in 1986, bringing together workers from 12 offices across the district. The project took two years and over-ran the anticipated cost by £1 million, totalling £6.7 million, then the council's biggest spending scheme. it was opened in 1987 by Princess Anne . Catering facilities are run by outside contractors. The civic centre includes Job Centre Plus, an agency within
451-427: Is mentioned in the 1086 Doomsday Book and in 1092 it was passed by King William II to Robert Bloet the bishop of Lincoln and Lord Chancellor of England . Access to the town was by road from the city of Nottingham , on the way to Sheffield . In the town centre, a commemorative plaque was erected in 1988 together with a nearby tree to mark the point thought once to be the centre of Sherwood Forest. The plaque
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#1732863288924492-589: Is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area and the second largest settlement in Nottinghamshire (following the city of Nottingham ). It gained the Royal Charter of a market town in 1227. The town lies in the Maun Valley , 12 miles (19 km) north of Nottingham. It had a population of 110,500 at the 2021 census . Mansfield is the one local authority in Nottinghamshire with a publicly elected mayor,
533-546: Is traced back to 1666. During the persecution of Presbyterian ministers (at the time of the Nonconformists Act 1665 ), eight ministers sought refuge in Mansfield under the protection of Reverend John Firth. In 1690, during the reign of King William III and Queen Mary , Daniel Clay was put in the pillory in Mansfield for disloyalty, for speaking these words: "God dam King William and Queen Mary and yt King James both should and would come again." Elizabeth Heath founded
574-572: The Department for Work and Pensions . Mansfield Community Partnership was at the Civic Centre is a centralised hub for law and order, with police, street wardens, housing, domestic abuse and anti social behaviour officers in a dedicated town-centre unit. In October 2021, the council announced a plan to create a new community hub at the old town hall in the town centre, intending to relocate staff together with other parties having vested interests in
615-627: The Doomsday Book . There are remains of the 12th-century King John's Palace in Clipstone , between Mansfield and Edwinstowe , and it was an area of retreat for royal families and dignitaries through to the 15th century. It was here that King William the Lion of Scotland met King Richard I of England (Richard the Lionheart) to congratulate him on his return from the crusades. St Peter and St Paul's Church
656-447: The Mayor of Mansfield . According to historian William Horner Dove (1894) there is dispute to the origins of the name. Three conjectures have been considered, either the name was given to the noble family of Mansfield who came over with King William the Conqueror , others indicate the name came from Manson, an Anglo-Saxon word for traffic and a field meaning a place of trade, or named after
697-605: The Probation Service by the rail station; and Queen's Place—completed in late 2013—which cost the council £2.4 million. It offered two new ground-floor retail units and six offices in Queen Street between the new transport interchange and the market square. In 2019, Mansfield received £25 million for regeneration and development from the UK Towns Fund , alongside a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant to renovate parts of
738-572: The River Maun which runs through Mansfield, the town being built around the river. Settlement dates to Roman Britain times. Major Hayman Rooke in 1787 discovered a Roman villa between Mansfield Woodhouse and Pleasley ; a cache of denarii (300-400 Roman Silver Coins were found near King's Mill in 1849. The Royal Manor of Mansfield was held by the King. In 1042, King Edward the Confessor possessed
779-974: The 16th and 17th centuries had several inns and stable yards dating from the medieval period to stop at: the Harte; the Swan, which survives and has a 1490 dating stone; the Talbot; the White Bear; the Ram, with timber from before 1500; and the White Lion. Several timber-framed cruck buildings were demolished in 1929; and in 1973 a local historical society documented another during demolition dated to 1400 or earlier. Other Tudor houses in Stockwell Gate, Bridge Street, and Lime Tree Place were also demolished to make way for development before they could be viewed for listing. Most remaining buildings are from
820-531: The 17th century. The Swan was rebuilt in 1584, and became a coaching inn in the 1820's/30s. In the 1640s George Fox lived in Mansfield and worked as a shoemaker. Mansfield became the birth place of the Quaker religion after Fox had a revelation walking past St Peter and St Paul's Church and felt compelled to preach to others. This was during the time of the English Civil War . There is a Quaker Heritage Trail in
861-504: The Almshouses for the poor in 1691. Six were to house Quakers and six members of the established Church. In 1709 Samuel Brunt left £436.15 to the relief of the poor inhabitants of Mansfield. Faith Clerkson in 1725 and Charles Thompson in 1784 both donated money to educating children in Mansfield. This formulated the beginning of the Brunt's Charity. Robert Dodsley , who wrote The King and
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#1732863288924902-662: The Bentinck memorial (Cavendish Monument) in the Market place in Mansfield. In 1894 William Horner Groves described Mansfield as "one of the quaintest and most healthy of the towns in the Midland counties, is the market town for an agricultural district of eight miles around it. It is the capital of the Broxtowe Hundred of Nottinghamshire, and gives its name to a Parliamentary Division of the county" The Carnegie Old Library on Leeming Street
943-516: The Lindhurst development, which is to include 1700 homes, a hotel, health centre, primary school, care home and offices. Several urban regeneration projects planned for Mansfield involved mass demolition, but the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and subsequent central-government funding cuts and escalating austerity measures deferred them. Mansfield District Council promoted two new developments: Arrival Square, opened 2008, an office block occupied by
984-659: The Mansfield Workhouse was originally based on Nottingham Road in 1777, housing 56 inmates. It later moved to Stockwell Gate, where the Mansfield Union Workhouse was designed to house 300 people under the Mansfield Poor Law. In 1790, John Throsby described Mansfield as 'a flourishing and genteel market town, general well built.....and is certainly an ancient place, and some think of high antiquity'. In 1851, Lord George Bentinck by subscription erected
1025-585: The Miller of Mansfield , was a stocking weaver in the town. He became one of the foremost publishers of that day, publishing Dr Samuel Johnson 's London in 1738. Later, he suggested and helped finance Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language . The Moot Hall in the Mansfield Market Place was erected in 1752 by Henrietta Harley, Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer . It was recorded that
1066-595: The Party...But he's never had a pint of Mansfield." featured Mikhail Gorbachev , then president of the Soviet Union . Mansfield's old-established soft drink manufacturer, R. L. Jones, with brand names Sunecta and Mandora , was bought by Mansfield Brewery in 1977. A move to a modern factory in Bellamy Road in 1975 released land projected for a high-density housing development known as Layton Burroughs. Mansfield Brewery sold
1107-458: The United Kingdom's largest independent brewery, was acquired in 1999 by Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries for £253 million. Production ceased in 2002, and the Mansfield range of ales moved to manufacturing facilities around the country; the site was later sold to Pubmaster Ltd, and from the 2020s is being redeveloped as housing. In the 1980s, Mansfield Bitter was advertised with
1148-834: The back of the Old Town Hall and a pocket park with a slide for children in the existing green space on the corner of Walkden Street/Quaker Way. Since 2010, there has been a town-centre Business Improvement District (BID), financed by 2 per cent extra on the rateable value of nearby businesses. Initially, the BID had offices in the Old Town Hall , before moving in 2015 to allow structural repairs. The BID also offers events to attract visitors and raise awareness, provides security including banning orders and improved shop frontages, Other BID moves have been "gating off" alleyways blighted by anti-social behaviour, improving signage, and enhancing cleansing operations. and in 2013 installed
1189-535: The business in 1988 for £21.5 million to the Scottish drinks company A. G. Barr plc, producer of Irn-Bru , Tizer , and Mandora. At the time the firm employed 400 people. Production ceased there in January 2011 when A. G. Barr moved production to other sites. After demolition of the brewery production buildings in 2008, the site remained unsold, with various projected uses mooted. Used temporarily since February 2015 as
1230-590: The centre is the Bentinck Memorial, built in 1849, which commemorates Lord George Bentinck (1802–1848), son of the William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland , a local landowner. The nearby Buttercross Market in West Gate, site of an old cattle market and named for the buttercross , has a centrepiece of local stone dating from the 16th century. Mansfield District Council closed this section in 2015. Adjacent
1271-587: The home of Sir John Cockle for a night having been hunting in Sherwood Forest . Sir John Cockle was later known as the Miller of Mansfield. In 1199 the Manor was owned by King John . King John used to visit Mansfield frequently between 1200 and 1216, that he built a residence here. Later, King Edward I held a Royal Council in the town. The Manor, then owned by King Henry III , subsequently passed to Henry de Hastings . In 1329 Queen Isabella , mother of Edward III ,
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1312-475: The local newspaper, and a micro brewery with a cafe and bar. Although Mansfield itself does not show signs of coal mining, many areas near the town still do. Coal mining was the main industry for most of the 20th century. A violent episode in the UK miners' strike (1984–1985) occurred in Mansfield on May Day 1984. Most of the area's miners had voted against a strike, but the local union initially maintained that
1353-490: The old Buttercross Market. Surroundings includes a museum, the Palace Theatre , restaurants, fast-food outlets, pubs, bars and night clubs. In January 2022, the council announced an intention to purchase and redevelop the old Beale's town-centre store and to relocate all existing staff along with external partnerships and new participants, swelling the daily footfall which would bolster existing retail traders. Funding for
1394-622: The present building and area. The project will be subject to a successful bid for funding from central government under the Levelling up scheme announced in 2021. The Civic Centre is proposed to be redeveloped. Data collated by the Office of National Statistics advised that more people are moving from London to Mansfield than any other part of Nottinghamshire . In the 21st century, a significant number of new homes and developments have been built or are planned in Mansfield, including High Oakham Park and
1435-570: The scheme, named Mansfield Connect , will be determined by a Levelling Up grant. In January 2023, the levelling up funding of 20 million pounds for the project had been agreed by the UK government. Also in February 2022 Severn Trent Water shared its £76 million Green Recovery Project for flood alleviation investment for the town. This includes rain garden areas around the Market Place, a memorial garden at
1476-453: The strike was official to show solidarity with strikers in other areas. When the coal board granted an extra day of leave after the bank holiday, a group of working miners confronted union officials and violence broke out with striking miners. Mansfield later hosted a breakaway union, the Union of Democratic Mineworkers , which recruited many who had opposed the 1984–1985 strike. The Coal Authority
1517-713: The town centre. Reconstruction of the nearby King's Mill Hospital , part of which was completed by 2009, is near the MARR road (Mansfield and Ashfield Regeneration Route) which opened in 2004, a bypass route around the town designed to reduce traffic through-flow and improve public access by connecting the A617 at Pleasley to the A617 at Rainworth . In 2009 Mansfield made am unsuccessful bid for city status, appending redevelopment plans for retail, residential and leisure facilities with road improvements gradually being made. Mansfield Brewery , once
1558-453: The town. Fox was later imprisoned for the first time in Nottingham in 1649. Fox met Elizabeth Hooton at her home in nearby Skegby ; she is usually considered to be the first person to accept the doctrines of Quakerism. The Old Meeting House (Unitarian church) on Stockwell Gate was built in 1702 and is the oldest nonconformist place of worship in Nottinghamshire. The history of the church
1599-521: Was funded and erected in 1905 by the industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie . 1905 was also the year that the Mansfield and District Light Railways Tram system was opened; it closed in 1932. Mansfield is a market town with a 700-year-old market tradition; a Royal charter was issued in 1227. The present market square was created after demolition under the Improvement Act of 1823. In
1640-482: Was refurbished in 2005 and moved to a ground-plinth. In 1516, during the reign of King Henry VIII , an act of parliament settled the Manor to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk . The Manor was then passed to the Dukes of Newcastle and Portland . Dame Cecily Fogan in 1521, gave extensive land to the parish church and community in Mansfield in her will. The church at the time was in the hands of King Edward VI . Travellers in
1681-565: Was the Lady of the Manor of Mansfield. The Domesday Book (1086) recorded the settlement as Mammesfeld and market-petition documents of 1227 spelt it Maunnesfeld . King Richard II signed a warrant in November 1377 to grant tenants the right to hold a four-day fair each year; the spelling had changed to Mannesfeld . Mansfield, Skegby and Sutton in Ashfield were the land of the king in 1086 as stated in