Mansfield

According to historian William Horner Dove (1894) there is dispute to the origins of the name. Three conjectures have been considered: the name may have been given to the noble family of Mansfield who came over with William the Conqueror, other sources suggest that the name came from Manson, an Anglo-Saxon word for traffic and a field meaning a place of trade, while others claim the town is named after the River Maun which runs through Mansfield, the town being built around the river.{{cite book |first=William |last=Horner Groves |year=1894 |title=The History of Mansfield |access-date=3 November 2024 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jvIVAAAAYAAJ|page=14|publisher=Frank Murray }}

Settlement dates to Roman Britain times between AD 43 to AD 410. Hayman Rooke in 1787 discovered two Roman villas between Mansfield Woodhouse and Pleasley; a cache of denarii (300-400 Roman Silver Coins were found near King's Mill in 1849).{{Cite book |title=Mansfield Directory: Street Plan and Guide |publisher=W. & J. Linney Ltd |year=1973 |isbn=978-0900525131 |location=Mansfield |page=23 |chapter=A short history of Mansfield}}{{Cite web |title=L5309 - Roman coin hoard, Mansfield - Nottinghamshire Historic Environment Record |url=https://her.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/Monument/MNT5250 |access-date=11 January 2024 |website=her.nottinghamshire.gov.uk}}Robert White, Worksop, The Dukery, and Sherwood Forest, (1875)|retrieved on 3 May 2025 A Roman tessellated pavement was found in one of the Villa’s near Mansfield Woodhouse.{{Cite web|url=https://imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/155449/|title=maps_k_top_33_45|website=British Library Images}}

In AD 868 the Danes came into the county and by AD 877 they had complete control over the county. Their occupation left names on the town such as Skerry Hill, Ratcliffe Gate and Carr Bank.Cite Book: A S Buxton|Early Mansfield| 1987|Wheel Productions|access date 14 May 2025

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The Royal Manor of Mansfield was held by the King. In 1042, Edward the Confessor possessed a manor in Mansfield. During the Norman Conquest in 1066, William the Conqueror made Sherwood Forest a Royal Forest for hunting.{{Cite web |title=History of Sherwood - Visit Nottinghamshire |url=https://www.visit-nottinghamshire.co.uk/explore/sherwood-forest/history-of-sherwood |access-date=11 January 2024 |website=www.visit-nottinghamshire.co.uk}}

Mansfield was recorded as being Mammesfeld in the Wapentake of Broxtowe and the land of William the Conqueror in the Domesday Book of 1086. William 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.Robert White, The Dukery, and Sherwood Forest, (1875) retrieved in 8 April 2023William Horner Groves, The History of Mansfield, (1894) retrieved on 8 April 2023{{Cite web|author=Powell-Smith| title= Open Domesday, Mansfield |url= https://opendomesday.org/place/SK5361/mansfield/ | access-date= 18 May 2025}}

In the time of Henry II of England, the king visited what is now known as Kings Mill, staying at 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.Robert Dodsley 1737 'The King and the Miller of Mansfield: A Dramatick Tale' retrieved on 13 February 2023William Horner Groves, The History of Mansfield, (1894) retrieved on 13 February 2023. 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, Edward I held a Royal Council in the town. The Manor, then owned by Henry III, subsequently passed to Henry de Hastings. In 1329 Queen Isabella, mother of Edward III, was the Lady of the Manor of Mansfield.William Horner Groves, The History of Mansfield, (1894) retrieved on 5 December 2020.

Market-petition documents of 1227 spelt Mansfield Maunnesfeld. 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 the Domesday Book.Lady Antonia Fraser, Domesday Book (1992) retrieved on 7 April 2023 There are remains of the 12th-century King John's Palace in Kings 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 William the Lion of Scotland met Richard I of England (Richard the Lionheart) to congratulate him on his return from the crusades. It was also where Queen Eleanor the first wife of Edward I was taken ill and moved to Harby.Horner Groves W, The History of Mansfield, (1894) King John and Edward I are reputed to have had impromptu parliaments at the Parliament Oak near Market Warsop.Cite web|The Parliament Oak & Other Legendary Nottinghamshire Trees|url=https://www.visit-nottinghamshire.co.uk/blog/read/2017/09/the-parliament-oak-and-other-legendary-nottinghamshire-trees-b5542|Visit Nottinghamshire|access-date 2025-05-21

St Peter and St Paul's Church is mentioned in the 1086 Doomsday Book and in 1092 it was passed by William II to Robert Bloet the bishop of Lincoln and Lord Chancellor of England.Canon A. H. Prior, Mansfield Parish Church, (1925), retrieved on 8 April 2023{{Cite web |title=Mansfield St Peter - History |url=https://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/mansfield-st-peter/hhistory.php |access-date=6 March 2024 |website=southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk}}

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 was refurbished in 2005 and moved to a ground-plinth.{{Citation |last=Mansfield District Council |title=Mansfield Town Centre Heritage Trail |url=http://www.mansfield.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=1054&p=0 |page=21 |access-date=13 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111204234815/http://www.mansfield.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=1054&p=0 |publisher=SB Marketing |format=PDF |archive-date=4 December 2011}}[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/4697523.stm Town stakes a claim to Robin Hood] BBC News, 19 July 2005, Retrieved 9 November 2020.[http://www.ournottinghamshire.org.uk/page/the_centre_tree?path=0p31p390p The Centre Tree] ournottinghamshire.org.uk, 3 March 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2020.

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In 1516, during the reign of Henry VIII, an act of parliament settled the Manor to Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk.Horner-Groves, W. (1894). The History of Mansfield. F Murray. 1 April 2023

Dame Cecily Flogan 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 Edward VI. Harrod, W. (1801) The History of Mansfield and its Environs.

Travellers in 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 the 17th century. The Swan was rebuilt in 1584, and became a coaching inn in the 1820's/30s.{{cite web |url=https://www.mansfield.gov.uk/downloads/file/836/mansfield-heritage-trail-tour-guide |title=Mansfield Heritage Tour Guide |website=Mansfield District Council |access-date=8 February 2022 }}

The Manor was passed to George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury the husband of Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury in 1589, who then passed it to Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury (the 6th Earls son) until his death in 1616. Bess's daughter Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury the wife of Gilbert Talbot became the owner. Knighton, J. F. (1937). Early History of Mansfield. Mansfield and North Notts Advertiser. p37-38. Finally the Manor was passed to the Dukes of Newcastle and Portland.

Mansfield and surrounding areas in Nottinghamshire became a centre for Nonconformism, separating from the Church of England.

In 1647 George Fox who was originally from Fenny Drayton in Leicestershire lived in Mansfield and worked as a shoemaker for 4 years. George lived in a cottage at the site of St Phillip Neri Catholic Church and ground on Chesterfield Road.Hunt. J. and Co. (1973). The History of the Quakers in Mansfield. Mansfield Meeting House. p5. cite web.author=2015.The Mansfield Quaker Heritage Trail. https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/112154/the-mansfield-quaker-heritage-trail-leaflet.pdf. Nottinghamshire County Council. Nottingham. Nottinghamshire County Council. 5.22.2025cite web.author=2015.The Mansfield Quaker Heritage Trail. https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/heritage/mansfield-quakers-heritage-trail. Nottinghamshire County Council. Nottingham. Nottinghamshire County Council. 5.22.2025Horner-Groves, W. (1894). The History of Mansfield. Harpur and Murray. p227-334, It was at this time he started his ministry. George Fox in 1649 was imprisoned in Nottingham for interrupting the service at the church in Mansfield Woodhouse. He became the founder of the (Religious Society of Friends) Quakers. 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. The revelation is mentioned in his journal to which he states 'and as I was walking by the steeplehouse side, in the town of Mansfield the Lord said unto me, that which people do trample upon must be thy food. And as the Lord spoke he opened it to me how that people and professors did trample upon the life, even the life of Christ was trampled upon…'. The 'steeplhouses' meaning the church of St Peter and St Pauls Church.Nickalls, J. (1997). The journal of George Fox. Quaker Books. p19. {{ISBN|0852452918}} This was during the time of the English Civil War.

There is a Quaker Heritage Trail in the town. The former meeting house was on the site of the bus station. {{Cite news |date=24 April 2015 |title=Quakers: The faith forgotten in its hometown |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-32381926 |access-date=11 January 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}Percy Livingstone Parker, George Fox's Journal 1903. Fox met Elizabeth Hooton at her home Quaker House in nearby Skegby; she is usually considered to be the first person to accept the doctrines of Quakerism."Elizabeth Hooton – Notable Women Ancestors". Rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 8 February 2023Mee A, The Kings England: Nottinghamshire|1938|Hodder and Stoughton|retrieved on 3 May 2025

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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 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.{{Cite web |title=Old Meeting House, Mansfield - The University of Nottingham |url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/collectionsindepth/non-conformistchurches/oldmeetinghouse.aspx |access-date=6 March 2024 |website=www.nottingham.ac.uk}}

In 1690, during the reign of 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."Henry B Saxton, H. Hampton Copnall, Nottinghamshire County Records: Notes and Extracts from the Nottinghamshire County Records of the 17th Century, 1915 retrieved on 26 March 2023

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Elizabeth Heath founded the almshouses for the poor in 1691. Six were to house Quakers and six members of the established church.{{cite web |website=Nottinghamshire County Council |title=The Mansfield Quakers Heritage Trail |url=https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/112154/the-mansfield-quaker-heritage-trail-leaflet.pdf |access-date=7 April 2023 }}Robert Mellors, Men of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (1924).Canon A. H. Prior, (1925) Mansfield Parish 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.William Horner Groves, The History of Mansfield, (1894).Arthur Mee, The King's England: Nottinghamshire, Hodder & Stoughton, 1938, retrieved on 3 May 2025.

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Robert Dodsley, who wrote The King and the Miller of Mansfield, was a stocking weaver in the town. His writings were set in the town also. He became one of the foremost publishers of that day, publishing Dr Samual Johnson’s 'London' in 1738. Later, he suggested and helped finance Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language.Margaret Drabble, Jenny Stringer, and Daniel Hahn 'The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.) 2007 retrieved on 6 March 2023

In 1750 George Whitefield, one of the founders of Methodism) came to preach in the town.Arthur Mee, The King's England: Nottinghamshire, Hodder & Stoughton, 1938 retrieved on 3 May 2025.John R. Raynes, History of Wesleyan Methodism in the Mansfield Circuit, 1807-1907 (Mansfield, 1907)|retrieved on 3 May 2025 The Moot Hall in the Mansfield Market Place was erected in 1752 by Henrietta Harley, Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer.William Horner Groves, The History of Mansfield, (1894) retrieved on 4 February 2023

It was recorded that 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.W. White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Nottinghamshire (1885).M. Caplan, In the Shadow of the Workhouse (1984).

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'.John Throsby, Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 2, 1790.

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In 1851 Lord George Bentinck was commemorated in the Cavendish Monument (Bentinck Memorial) in the Market Place in Mansfield., paid for by public subscription.{{cite book |first=Cornelius |last=Brown |url=http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/books/Brown1896/mansfield.htm |title=A History of Nottinghamshire |publisher=Elliot Stock |chapter=Mansfield and Mansfield Woodhouse |location=London |via=nottshistory.org.uk |year=1896 |access-date=24 May 2025}} The monument has a square base and three steps, and the style is Gothic revival It was originally intended to include a figure of Lord George, but there were insufficient funds.{{Cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/cavendish-bentinck-memorial-322872|title=Cavendish (Bentinck) Memorial | Art UK|website=artuk.org}}

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 was funded and erected in 1905 by the industrialist and philanthropist

Andrew Carnegie.{{Cite web |last=Nanrah |first=Gurjeet |date=12 June 2020 |title=Why one of the USA's richest men funded a library here |url=https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/story-how-library-mansfield-funded-4215814 |access-date=6 March 2024 |website=Nottinghamshire Live |language=en}}{{Cite web |last= |title=Mansfield Library |website=Inspire Picture Archive |url=https://www.inspirepicturearchive.org.uk/image/20912/Mansfield_Library |access-date=6 March 2024 }} 1905 was also the year that the Mansfield and District Light Railways tram system was opened; it closed in 1932.Turner, Keith (1996) The Directory of British Tramways. Patrick Stephens Ltd.

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Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visited Mansfield in 1977, to mark her Silver Jubilee.{{Cite web |url=https://www.chad.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/retro/in-pictures-her-majesty-the-queen-visiting-mansfield-3836704 |title=IN PICTURES: Her Majesty The Queen visiting Mansfield |publisher=Mansfield-Ashfield Chad |date=8 September 2022 |accessdate=19 April 2025}}

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 Mansfield Improvement Act 1823(4 Geo. 4. c. xcii). In 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.{{Cite web |date=12 November 2013 |title=Mansfield Market Place |url=http://www.mansfield.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1426 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214104300/http://www.mansfield.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1426 |archive-date=14 December 2013 |access-date=12 November 2013 |website=Mansfield District Council}}

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The nearby Buttercross Market in West Gate, site of an old cattle market and named for the buttercross, has a centrepiece of local sandstone dating from the 16th century. Mansfield District Council closed this section in 2015.{{Cite web |title=Mansfield Markets |url=http://www.mansfield.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1391 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214104309/http://www.mansfield.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1391 |archive-date=14 December 2013 |access-date=12 December 2013 |website=Mansfield District Council}}{{Cite news |date=21 November 2015 |title=Mansfield market: Revamp gets council approval despite opposition |work=BBC News |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |location=Nottinghamshire |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-34890745 |access-date=19 February 2020}} Adjacent is Mansfield Library, officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1977 and refurbished in 2012.{{Cite news |date=3 March 2012 |title=Mansfield Library opens after £3.4m investment |work=BBC News |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |location=Nottinghamshire |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-16484653 |access-date=19 February 2020}} The West Gate Pump commemorates John Adams bringing the first Methodist service to Mansfield in 1788. Bonser, G. G. (1948), The History of Sutton in Ashfield. Cooke & Vowles (1940) Limited.

Mansfield has a large market place within its commercial and retail centre.

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Until 2016, there was also market trading at the old Buttercross Market.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-34890745 Mansfield market: Revamp gets council approval despite opposition] BBC News Nottingham, 21 November 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2021.[https://www.chad.co.uk/news/breaking-controversial-plans-mansfield-market-given-go-ahead-1273056 Controversial plans for Mansfield market given go-ahead] Chad, 29 January 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2021.[https://www.chad.co.uk/news/mansfield-market-relaunches-today-1252534 Mansfield market relaunches today] Chad, 5 April 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2021.Market traders stay optimistic about future of £100k revamp. Chad, 11 May 2016, pp.6-7. Accessed 24 January 2022 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.[https://www.ourmansfieldandarea.org.uk/content/place/mansfield/mansfield-miscellaneous/annals-of-mansfield-from-1086-to-1999 1973, 30 July - Work began on clearing the site of the proposed shopping precinct between Westgate and Stockwell Gate; 1976, 9 March - The Four Seasons Shopping Centre was opened] Annals of Mansfield from 1086 to 1999, ourmansfieldandarea.org.uk. Retrieved 15 February 2021.{{Cite web |title=Four Seasons Shopping Centre |url=http://www.fourseasonsshopping.co.uk/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108194503/http://www.fourseasonsshopping.co.uk/ |archive-date=8 January 2014 |access-date=8 January 2014 |quote=Give the gift of choice... with a Four Seasons Gift Card. Accepted in most of the 55 Four Seasons stores.}}{{Cite web |title=Centre Guide, Four Seasons Mansfield |url=http://www.fourseasonsshopping.co.uk/images/BW7313_Four_Seasons_Store_Guide_Update_v5_WEB.pdf |access-date=19 February 2020 |publisher=Four Seasons Shopping Centre |archive-date=19 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219193442/http://www.fourseasonsshopping.co.uk/images/BW7313_Four_Seasons_Store_Guide_Update_v5_WEB.pdf |url-status=dead }}

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Close to the Market Place is Leeming Street, which houses Mansfield Museum, The Palace Theatre, restaurants, public houses, bars and night clubs.

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Rosemary Centre, built as a large weaving shed in 1907 by John Harwood Cash and converted to retail in 1984,Up Our Street. Rosemary Centre, incorporating part of Rosemary Street, Walkden Street & Union Street. Chad, 23 May 2012. p.27. Accessed 24 January 2022 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.{{Cite news |date=September 2012 |title=Portland Retail Park: Retail park full after two new deals |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/business/retail-park-full-after-two-new-deals–1-48953744887311 |access-date=8 January 2014}}{{Cite web |title=St Peter's Retail Park |url=http://completelyretail.co.uk/portfolio/BritishLand/scheme/St-Peters-Retail-Park-Mansfield/index |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301095032/http://completelyretail.co.uk/portfolio/BritishLand/scheme/St-Peters-Retail-Park-Mansfield/index |archive-date=1 March 2014 |access-date=8 January 2014 |website=Completely Retail |publisher=The Completely Group}}{{Cite web |title=Mansfield Leisure Park |url=http://www.localstore.co.uk/store/545662/mansfield-leisure-park/mansfield/ |access-date=19 February 2020 |website=Local Store |publisher=Local Store Marketing Pty Ltd}} In April 2023, a planning application to demolish the Rosemary Centre to build a Lidl supermarket and another retail unit was approved.[https://nottstv.com/demolition-and-lidl-plan-for-mansfields-rosemary-centre-approved-in-split-vote/ Demolition and Lidl plan for Mansfield's Rosemary Centre approved in split vote] Notts TV, 25 April 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2023{{Cite news |date=26 April 2023 |title=Demolition of Mansfield's Rosemary Centre gets green light |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-65392311 |access-date=11 January 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

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.{{Citation |title=Report and Statutory Accounts, Unaudited, For the year ended 31 March 2011 |url=http://www.mansfieldbid.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/year-2011.pdf |pages=1–2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402143408/http://www.mansfieldbid.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/year-2011.pdf |publisher=Mansfield BID Company Limited |archive-date=2 April 2015}}Mansfield Directory 1973, p. 172.{{Citation |title=Mansfield District Council re-election report on BID's 2015 Ballot |date=June 2014 |url=http://www.mansfield.gov.uk/.../2014_06_16_00012011_SC2%20BID%20report%20June%2014.doc |access-date=22 August 2014}}{{Dead link |date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}{{Cite news |date=2 September 2012 |title=Mansfield's BID Ambassadors |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/mansfield-s-bid-ambassadors–1-4887311 |access-date=11 December 2013}} Initially, the BID had offices in the Old Town Hall, before moving in 2015 to allow structural repairs.[https://www.news-journal.co.uk/work-gets-underway-on-mansfield-old-town-hall/ Work gets underway on Mansfield Old Town Hall] News Journal, 29 June 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2021.

The BID also offers events to attract visitors and raise awareness, provides security including banning orders and improved shop frontages,{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=About Mansfield BID |url=http://www.mansfield2020.com/living-and-working-in-mansfield/mansfield-business-improvement-district |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826150810/http://www.mansfield2020.com/living-and-working-in-mansfield/mansfield-business-improvement-district |archive-date=26 August 2014 |access-date=22 August 2014 |website=Mansfield 2020}}{{Cite web |title=Achievements |url=http://www.mansfieldbid.com/achievements/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141005081856/http://www.mansfieldbid.com/achievements/ |archive-date=5 October 2014 |access-date=20 May 2014 |website=Mansfield BID |publisher=Mansfield BID Company Ltd}} Other BID moves have been "gating off" alleyways blighted by anti-social behaviour, improving signage, and enhancing cleansing operations.{{Cite news |date=September 2013 |title=New gates lock out crime |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/crime/new-gates-lock-out-crime–1-61000194887311 |access-date=8 January 2014}}{{Cite web |date=August 2013 |title=New £47K wayfinding scheme |url=http://www.mansfieldbid.com/achievement/new-47k-wayfinding-scheme/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303213257/http://www.mansfieldbid.com/achievement/new-47k-wayfinding-scheme/ |archive-date=3 March 2016 |access-date=8 January 2014 |website=Mansfield BID |publisher=Mansfield BID Company Ltd}}{{Cite web |date=August 2013 |title=Better Directional Signage |url=http://www.mansfieldbid.com/achievement/better-directional-signage/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304033727/http://www.mansfieldbid.com/achievement/better-directional-signage/ |archive-date=4 March 2016 |access-date=8 January 2014 |website=Mansfield BID |publisher=Mansfield BID Company Ltd |quote=After strong lobbying of Notts County Council, they have committed to change, refresh and re-install all directional signage into Mansfield, including better signage for all Car Parks}}{{Cite web |title=Dedicated cleansing team employed for all members |url=http://www.mansfieldbid.com/achievement/dedicated-cleansing-team-employed-for-all-members/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220655/http://www.mansfieldbid.com/achievement/dedicated-cleansing-team-employed-for-all-members/ |archive-date=3 March 2016 |access-date=8 January 2014 |website=Mansfield BID |publisher=Mansfield BID Company Ltd}} and in 2013 installed a crowd-funded town centre Wi-Fi internet installation costing £37,000.{{Cite web |date=29 June 2013 |title=Free Wi-Fi Launched |url=http://www.mansfieldbid.com/news/free-wi-fi-launched/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212036/http://www.mansfieldbid.com/news/free-wi-fi-launched/ |archive-date=3 March 2016 |access-date=12 December 2013 |website=Mansfield BID |publisher=Mansfield BID Company Ltd}}

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.{{Cite news |date=12 September 2012 |title='Has the Mansfield BID delivered?' Calls have been made for it to demonstrate how it gives town-centre traders value for money |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/has-the-mansfield-bid-delivered–1-4920123 |access-date=11 December 2013}}

Mansfield is going through a period of urban regeneration, with new homes being built for a growing demand. Data collated by the Office for National Statistics in 2020 advised that more people are moving from London to Mansfield than any other part of Nottinghamshire.Nottinghamshire Live, Surprise as new data shows Mansfield is top choice for Londoners moving to Nottinghamshire, 2020 retrieved on 9 May 2023

Mansfield District Council received 20 million of the UK Government's Towns Fund in 2023 to fund the Mansfield Connect project, which aims to regenerate the former Beales Department Store into a multiagency and community hub for the NHS, the Department of Work and Pensions, Nottinghamshire County Council, Vision West Nottinghamshire College and Mansfield CVS.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mansfield.gov.uk/local-business/funding-future-mansfield/4|title=Funding the Future of Mansfield|first=Bek|last=Daft|website=Mansfield District Council}} Also in 2023 the council purchased White Hart Street to be able to redevelop it. Plans for a multimillion pound revamp of a derelict site in Mansfield Town Centre have been announced.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-65180784#:~:text=Image+source,+Mansfield+District+Council,business+case+for+the+scheme|title=Council plans revamp of derelict Mansfield town centre site|work=BBC News |date=5 April 2023}}

The derelict site on White Hart Street is expected to be regenerated to deliver mixed-use affordable homes, revitalise heritage assets into new commercial spaces, and connect the town centre. Proctor and Matthews have been appointed to take the scheme forward at the cost of £16.5 million.Cite Web: https://westbridgfordwire.com/mansfield-plans-revealed-for-16-5-flagship-town-centre-regeneration-scheme/ | Mansfield: Plans revealed for £16.5 flagship town centre regeneration scheme| West Bridgford Wire| 12 July 2024|access date 14 May 2025

In February 2022 Severn Trent Water shared its £76 million Green Recovery Project for flood alleviation investment for the town, including rain garden areas around the Market Place, a memorial garden at 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.{{Cite web |title=Severn Trent shares vision for its £76m Green Recovery project in Mansfield with Mansfield BID team {{!}} News Releases {{!}} News {{!}} Severn Trent Water |url=https://www.stwater.co.uk/news/news-releases/severn-trent-shares-vision-for-its-p76m-green-recovery-project-i/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=www.stwater.co.uk |language=en}} The 76 million was also spent on the memorial garden on Exchange Row, landscaped areas in Mansfield Market Place and Market House Place as part of the Sustainable Urban Drainage System programme to prevent flooding.cite web|author=|1st August 2023|Memorial Garden Officially opened in Mansfield |url= https://www.mansfield.gov.uk/news/article/12723/memorial-garden-officially-opened-in-mansfield%7C|Mansfield District Council|Mansfield|access-date= 2025-05-21

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A significant number of new homes and developments have been built or are planned in Mansfield, including High Oakham Park{{Cite web |title=High Oakham Park |url=https://www.dukerieshomes.com/developments/high-oakham-park-mansfield/# |access-date=6 March 2024 |website=Dukeries Homes Ltd }} and the Lindhurst development, which is to include 1700 homes, a hotel, health centre, primary school, care home and offices.{{cite web |url=https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/newsroom/news/housing-development-in-mansfield-takes-big-step-fo |title=Housing development in Mansfield takes big step forward with completion of new spine road |publisher=Nottinghamshire County Council |date=4 July 2022 |access-date=15 February 2023 }}

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A new hotel is expected to be built on the former bus station as planned from 2020 at the cost of £12 Million. Planning permission has been granted but due to the rising costs of inflation the plans are being revised to be cost effective.Cite Web: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkd43yv401o.amp |Developer 'committed' to £12m hotel plan|BBC News|created 19 September 2024| access date 14 May 2025

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 the town centre.{{Cite web |title=Regeneration money is a further boost for Mansfield |url=https://www.mansfield.gov.uk/news/article/57/regeneration-money-is-a-further-boost-for-mansfield}} created 6 September 2019 and Retrieved 1 September 2020

Reconstruction of 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,[https://web.archive.org/web/20180617022302/https://www.chad.co.uk/news/marr-has-brought-the-area-big-business-bucks-1-702859 "MARR has brought the area big business bucks"] Chad, local newspaper. 2 May 2008. Archived from [http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/marr-has-brought-the-area-big-business-bucks-1-702859 the original] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221082930/http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/marr-has-brought-the-area-big-business-bucks-1-702859 |date=21 December 2013 }} on 17 June 2018. 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 an unsuccessful bid for city status, appending redevelopment plans for retail, residential and leisure facilities with road improvements gradually being made.{{Cite news |date=24 September 2009 |title=Mansfield bids for 'city' status |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/alfreton/mansfield_bids_for_city_status_1_713070 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729133727/http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/alfreton/mansfield_bids_for_city_status_1_713070 |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 July 2012 }}

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Several regeneration projects planned for Mansfield involved mass demolition, but the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent central-government funding cuts and escalating austerity measures deferred them. Mansfield District Council promoted two new developments: Arrival Square, opened 2008,{{Cite news |date=29 July 2008 |title=Landmark office complex unveiled tomorrow |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/landmark-office-complex-unveiled-tomorrow–1-703923 |access-date=19 December 2013}} an office block occupied by the Probation Service by the rail station;{{Cite web |title=Contact Us |url=http://www.nottinghamshire-probation.org.uk/contact-us |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219220447/http://www.nottinghamshire-probation.org.uk/contact-us |archive-date=19 December 2013 |access-date=19 December 2013 |publisher=Nottinghamshire Probation Trust}} 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.{{Cite news |date=27 November 2013 |title=Mayor opens new 'Gateway' building |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/business/video-mayor-opens-mansfield-s-new-gateway-building–1-6263360 |access-date=14 December 2013}}

Although Mansfield itself does not show signs of coal mining, a few 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 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.{{Cite book |last= |title=Strike: 358 Days that Shook the Nation |publisher=Sunday Times |year=1985 |isbn=978-0-340-38445-9 |location=London |pages=110–113}} Mansfield later hosted a breakaway union, the Union of Democratic Mineworkers, which recruited many who had opposed the 1984–1985 strike.{{Cite book |last1=Adeney |first1=Martin |title=The Miners' Strike 1984-5: Loss Without Limited |last2=Lloyd |first2=John |date=1988 |publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul |isbn=978-0-7102-1371-6 |location=London |pages=273–274}} The Coal Authority is based in Mansfield, and the larger than lifesize statue Tribute to the British Miner by Nikolaos Kotziamanis was erected in 2003 to honour the town's mining heritage.{{cite web |url=https://public-art.shu.ac.uk/other/00000069.htm |title=Other locations outside Sheffield: Kotziamanis, Nikolaos: 'Tribute to the British Miner' |website=Public Art Research Archive |publisher=Sheffield Hallam University |access-date=18 June 2024 }}

As demand for coal fell, Mansfield's pits wound down and miners had to find other work. The headstocks close to the village of Clipstone are an important local landmark and said to be the highest in Europe.{{Cite news |date=November 2012 |title=Clipstone Headstocks campaign growing |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/clipstone-headstocks-campaign-growing–1-5144567 |access-date=27 November 2013 }} Community groups are trying to preserve them as a reminder of the area's mining history.{{Cite news |date=April 2003 |title=Stay or go: that's the question |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/stay-or-go-that-s-the-question–1-6904324887311 |access-date=27 November 2013 |quote=Opinion is still divided over whether the historic headstocks at the former Clipstone Colliery site should be preserved or demolished}}{{Cite news |date=April 2003 |title=Final shift at Clipstone pit |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/final-shift-at-clipstone-pit–1-704531 |access-date=27 November 2013}}

Mining subsidence causes problems for properties around Mansfield. A few streets in and around the town form long rows of terraced houses reminiscent of the affordable housing provided for mine workers in the prime of the industry. Many were demolished in 2012 in Pleasley Hill, Market Warsop and elsewhere.

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Mansfield Brewery, once the United Kingdom's largest independent brewery, was best known for Mansfield Bitter, and its advertising slogan "not much matches Mansfield", which was later used as the title of a play by Kevin Fegan set in the town.Not Much Matches Mansfield. More from the Mayor. Chad, 18 July 2012, p.9. Accessed 20 January 2022 In the 1980s, the brewery ran adverts referencing the achievements of contemporary world figures such as Ronald Reagan with the slogan "but he's never had a pint of Mansfield".{{Cite news |date=October 1982 |title=Mug of Mansfield, President Regan? |work=Milwaukee Sentinel |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19831013&id=sEUxAAAAIBAJ&pg=5173,2713602 |access-date=22 February 2014}}{{Dead link|date=January 2017}}{{Cite web |last=Lewis |first=Richard |title=Former US president Ronald Reagan honoured with statue in London |url=http://www.colstons.bristol.sch.uk/09-news/RoaldReagan.html |access-date=22 February 2014 |website=OLD COLSTONIAN NEWS |publisher=Colston's School}} The brewery was acquired in 1999 by Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries,{{Cite web |date=2008 |title=Sign of the times: Mansfield District Council is delighted to receive the principal sign from the old Mansfield Brewery Building |url=http://www.mansfield.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2073 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110405090937/http://www.mansfield.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2073 |archive-date=5 April 2011 |access-date=3 September 2008 |website=Mansfield District Council}} and closed in 2002 with production moving to facilities around the country. Most of the site was redeveloped as housing,[https://www.chad.co.uk/lifestyle/homes-and-gardens/residents-move-into-new-homes-at-former-mansfield-brewery-site-3155730 Residents move into new homes at former Mansfield brewery site] Chad, 5 March 2021. Retrieved 6 July 2021 while the ornate office building 'Chadburn House' is now office space for businesses, including the local newspaper,[https://www.chad.co.uk/news/people/your-chad-moves-historic-brewery-site-951039 Your Chad moves to historic brewery site] Chad, 26 July 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2021 and a micro brewery with a cafe and bar.[https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/nottinghamshire-business-based-historic-brewery-4012158 Nottinghamshire business based in historic brewery cannot access government grant due to 'annoying' criteria] Nottinghamshire Live, 5 April 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2021[https://suite.endole.co.uk/explorer/postcode/ng18-1ah 20 Companies in NG18 1AH, Chadburn House, Chadburn Road, Mansfield] Endole, Retrieved 23 August 2021.[https://concept360.org.uk/ Serviced office space in Mansfield] Concept 360. Retrieved 23 August 2021

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 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.{{Cite news |date=November 2009 |title=Drinks maker Barr to close Mansfield plant |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/drinks-maker-barr-to-close-mansfield-plant–1-714361 |access-date=19 December 2013 |quote=Drinks maker A.G. Barr has announced it is to close its Mansfield site in early 2011}}[https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/notts-fizzy-drinks-factory-irn-3402487 The Notts fizzy drinks factory where Irn Bru was made before moving to Scotland] Nottinghamshire Live, 11 October 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2021

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Mansfield railway station is on the Robin Hood Line, which connects the town with Nottingham and Worksop; the line was opened in 1995. Trains run generally at hourly intervals each way.{{Cite web |date=December 2019 |title=Train Timetable: Nottingham to Worksop |url=https://www.eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk/sites/default/files/assets/download_ct/20191115/JSdBKlUW4qn9pj9NsdA_RbzibrQzGepYEFoMNuRNLiQ/timetable_4_web_version_.pdf |access-date=17 March 2020 |publisher=East Midlands Trains}}

The town was originally the terminus of the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, a horse-drawn plateway built in 1819 and one of the first acquisitions of the newly formed Midland Railway. The Midland used the final section to extend its new Leen Valley line to the present station in 1849.

The Midland Railway extended its Rolleston Junction–Southwell branch to Mansfield in 1871; continued the line north to Worksop in 1875; opened a link from Mansfield Woodhouse to Westhouses and Blackwell in 1886; and completed another link from Pleasley through Bolsover to Barrow Hill in 1890. The locally promoted Mansfield Railway, between Kirkby South Junction and Clipstone Junction, broke the Midland Railway monopoly; it was opened in stages between 1913 and 1916 for goods trains and, in 1917, for Nottingham Victoria–Ollerton passenger trains, calling at a second Mansfield passenger station. Though nominally independent, the Mansfield Railway connected at both ends with the Great Central Railway, which worked the trains.{{Cite journal |last=Cupit |first=J. |date=February 1956 |title=The End of Passenger Services on the Mansfield Railway |journal=Trains Illustrated |pages=58–61}} Mansfield had two railway stations: Mansfield Town, the former Midland station on Station Road; and Mansfield Central, the former Mansfield Railway station in Great Central Road, near Ratcliffe Gate. Mansfield & District Light Railways ran a tram service between 1905 and 1932.

Mansfield Central station lost its scheduled passenger services at the beginning of 1956 and Mansfield Town station closed to passengers in 1964, leaving Mansfield without passenger railway service until 1995. During this period, Mansfield was, by some definitions, the largest town in Britain without a railway station.{{Cite web |last=Hill |first=D |title=Our Mansfield and Area: Transport and Distribution |url=https://www.ourmansfieldandarea.org.uk/content/topics/transport/transport-and-distribution |access-date=7 December 2020}} The closest station was Alfreton; between 1973 and 1995, it was named 'Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway' to encourage use as a railhead for Mansfield.

The Midland Railway's 1875 viaduct in White Hart Street is a Grade II listed building.{{NHLE |num=1287993 |desc=Railway Viaduct, White Hart Street |access-date=18 June 2024 }}

The M1 motorway lies west of Mansfield. It is {{convert|6.8|mi|km}} from junction 29 at Heath, Derbyshire for traffic from the north and Chesterfield, and {{convert|7.7|mi|km}} from junction 27 at Annesley for traffic from the south.

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The A60 road runs north–south through Mansfield, between Nottingham and Worksop. The A617 road skirts around the town, providing a road link eastwards towards Newark-on-Trent as well as westwards towards Chesterfield and the M1.

The A38 road, the longest 2-digit A-road in Great Britain, terminates at Mansfield, and provides the town with a direct link to Derby.

Buses in Mansfield are operated mainly by Stagecoach from Mansfield bus station, with Trent Barton and National Express also working the area.

The bus station opened in 2013 near the railway station as part of the Gateway to Mansfield scheme,{{Cite news |date=19 November 2013 |title=Mayor's pledge on town's 'gateway' |work=Hucknall Despatch |url=http://www.hucknalldispatch.co.uk/news/local/mansfield-mayor-s-pledge-on-town-s-gateway–1-6253189 |access-date=16 December 2013 |quote=Mansfield mayor Tony Egginton has made it a priority to oversee the redevelopment of the town's Stockwell Gate area before he retires from office in 18 months' time. And he has moved to reassure the public that the new car park located on the old bus station, which opened last Wednesday, is only intended to be temporary.... Patrick Slack, who owns Slack's news kiosk on Rosemary Street, said: "I lost around 20 per cent of my business when the old bus station shut down and I know others were similarly affected, so anything that brings people this way has to be a good thing."}}{{Cite web |title=Mansfield bus station |url=http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/travelling/travel/buses/busstations/mansfieldbusstation/ |access-date=19 February 2020 |publisher=Nottinghamshire County Council |quote=The eye catching new state of the art bus station opened for business on 31 March 2013 and offers better bus, road and rail links. It is just a three-minute walk from both the old bus station and Mansfield market place.... The bus station is a fully enclosed building offering protection from the weather, with comfortable seating and 24 hour CCTV, providing a relaxed, safe waiting environment... and for customer safety and comfort, boarding will be controlled by automatic doors that only open when the bus has arrived }}{{Dead link|date=May 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} replacing a 1977 bus station closer to the town centre.

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• Abbey Primary School
• Asquith Primary School
• Berry Hill Primary School
• Crescent Primary School
• Farmilo Primary and Nursery School
• Forest Town Primary School
• Heatherley Primary School
• Heathlands Primary and Nursery School
• High Oakham Primary School
• Holly Primary School
• Intake Farm Primary School
• John T Rice Infants and Nursery School
• King Edward Primary and Nursery School
• Leas Park Junior School
• Mansfield Primary Academy
• Nettleworth Infant and Nursery School
• Newlands Junior School
• Northfield Primary and Nursery School
• Oak Tree Primary School
• Peafield Lane Academy
• St Edmunds Church of England Primary School
• St Patrick's Catholic Primary School
• St Peter's Church of England Primary Academy
• St Phillip Neri and St Bede Catholic Voluntary Academy
• Sutton Road Primary School
• The Bramble Academy
• The Flying High Academy
• Wainwright Academy
• Wynndale Academy

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• All Saints Catholic Voluntary Academy
• Queen Elizabeth Academy
• Samworth Church Academy
• The Brunts Academy
• The Garibaldi School
• The Manor Academy

• Redgate Primary Academy
• The Beech Academy
• Yeoman Park Academy

• Vision West Nottinghamshire College and associated Nottingham Trent University

Mansfield is in Mansfield parliamentary constituency, which also includes neighbouring Warsop. Steve Yemm (Labour) has been the Member of Parliament since 2024.

Mansfield has a directly elected mayor, the Mayor of Mansfield, which since 2019 has been Andy Abrahams.{{Cite news |date=3 May 2019 |title=Andy Abrahams elected Mayor of Mansfield - by just two votes |work=Nottingham Evening Post |url=https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/mansfield-district-council-mayoral-election-2799393 |access-date=5 November 2020}}

In April 2017, Sophie Whitby was elected to the Mansfield district as a Member of Youth Parliament, on a manifesto that included promoting equality for the LGBT community.{{Cite web |date=11 July 2017 |title=Nottinghamshire Youth Parliament members crusading for young people |url=http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/newsroom/news/nottinghamshire-youth-parliament-members-crusading |access-date=21 September 2017 |website=Nottinghamshire County Council News |publisher=Nottinghamshire County Council |archive-date=22 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922051328/http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/newsroom/news/nottinghamshire-youth-parliament-members-crusading |url-status=dead }}

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Mansfield Museum, is situated on Leeming Street. The museum opened in 1904.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mansfield.gov.uk/museum/visit/getting-1|title=Getting here|first=Chris|last=Jarvis|website=Mansfield Museum}} and has been based on its present site since 1938. The museum won The Guardian Family-Friendly Museum of the Year Award in 2011.{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=Mark |date=8 April 2011 |title=Mansfield museum the most family friendly in the UK |work=Guardian |publisher=Guardian News & Media Limited |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/apr/08/mansfield-museum-guardian-award-family-friendly |access-date=23 January 2014}}

The Quaker Heritage Trail, starts from Mansfield Bus Station. A map and audio guide is found on the Nottinghamshire County Council website. {{Cite web |title=The Mansfield Quaker Heritage Trail |url=https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/112154/the-mansfield-quaker-heritage-trail-leaflet.pdf |website=www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk}} cite web.author=2015.The Mansfield Quaker Heritage Trail. https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/heritage/mansfield-quakers-heritage-trail. Nottinghamshire County Council. Nottingham. 5.22.2025

The Mansfield Heritage Trail starts from the museum and this comes with a map and audio guide. cite web, author=, (2023), Heritage Trail - Audio files, URl https://www.mansfield.gov.uk/downloads/download/249/heritage-trail---audio-files , Mansfield District Council, 23 May 2025cite web, author=, (2023), Mansfield Heritage Trail, URL https://www.mansfield.gov.uk/town-centre-parking/mansfield-heritage-trail-1/1 , Mansfield District Council, 23 May 2025

St Peter and St Paul's Church is a Grade I listed building. The church is mentioned in the Doomsday Book.

The viaduct was built in 1875.{{Cite web|url=https://www.heartofthemidlands.co.uk/a-z-of-heroes-heroines-heritage/mansfield-railway-viaduct/|title=Mansfield Railway Viaduct|website=Heart of the Midlands}} And it is grade II listed.{{Cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1287993|title=RAILWAY VIADUCT, Non Civil Parish - 1287993 | Historic England|website=historicengland.org.uk}}

The Old Meeting House built in 1702.

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Titchfield Park, on the same site as the Water Meadows swimming complex, offers large grassy areas on both sides of the River Maun, crossed by two footbridges. It has a bowls green, hard tennis courts, a basketball court, a children's play area, and many flowerbeds.

Fisher Lane Park stretches from the top of Littleworth to Rock Hill. It is popular with dog walkers and kite flyers, and since the installation of a concrete skate plaza, with skaters. In the summer, children's rides and stalls are set up in the park.

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Carr Bank Park has a rocky grotto, a bandstand and summer flower beds. It has a war memorial built of local sandstone, dedicated to soldiers killed in action since the end of the Second World War, to complement the original setting unveiled after the First War in 1921.{{Cite news |date=November 2012 |title=Wreath-laying service to take place at refurbished War Memorial in Mansfield |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/wreath-laying-service-to-take-place-at-refurbished-war-memorial-in-mansfield–1-5117031 |access-date=4 January 2014}}

Other parks in Mansfield are Berry Hill and King George V Parks.

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Mansfield is a few miles from Sherwood Forest, a Royal Forest famous for its links with Robin Hood. Mansfield used to have a tree and a plaque mounted on a plinth in West Gate to mark what was the centre of Sherwood Forest. Nearby was a giant metallic feather sculpture dating from 2007. This was named A Spire for Mansfield.

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The Palace Theatre in Leeming St is the town's prime entertainment venue. Built as a cinema in 1910 and originally known as the Palace Electric Theatre, it was adapted into a live theatre with a proscenium arch.{{Cite web |title=The Palace Theatre, Leeming Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire |url=http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/MansfieldTheatres/PalaceTheatreMansfield.htm |access-date=23 January 2014 |website=ArthurLloyd.co.uk, The Music Hall and Theatre History Site}} It was known as the Civic Hall and Civic Theatre before the current name was revived in 1995.{{Cite web |last=Crute |first=David |date=29 November 2011 |title=Annals of Mansfield from 1086 to 1999 |url=https://www.ourmansfieldandarea.org.uk/content/place/mansfield/mansfield-miscellaneous/annals-of-mansfield-from-1086-to-1999 |access-date=19 February 2020 |website=Our Mansfield and Area |publisher=Mansfield District Council}} With a seating capacity of 534, the theatre is a mid-scale touring venue.{{Cite web |title=The Auditorium |url=https://www.mansfieldpalace.co.uk/AboutUs/HireUsAuditorium.aspx |access-date=19 February 2020 |website=Mansfield Palace Theatre |publisher=Mansfield District Council}}{{Cite web |title=Palace Theatre – auditorium |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/360/stage/mansfield_palace_theatre.shtml |access-date=23 January 2014 |website=BBC }} It presents a programme of professional and amateur productions and a yearly pantomime.{{Cite news |date=September 2013 |title=Stars turn out for the launch of Mansfield Palace Theatre's pantomime Cinderella |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/what-s-on/theatre/stars-turn-out-for-the-launch-of-mansfield-palace-theatre-s-pantomime-cinderella–1-6037673 |access-date=6 January 2014}}{{Cite news |date=March 2014 |title='Street' star in Palace panto |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/what-s-on/theatre/street-star-in-palace-panto–1-6506604 |access-date=11 July 2014 |quote='Coronation Street' star Vicky Entwistle has been confirmed as the headline name in this year's Christmas pantomime at Mansfield Palace Theatre}}{{Cite news |date=6 August 2014 |title=Aladdin named as 2015 Mansfield Pantomime |publisher=Mansfield 103.2 |url=http://www.mansfield103.co.uk/news/story/?n=4424 |access-date=11 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812203853/http://www.mansfield103.co.uk/news/story/?n=4424 |archive-date=12 August 2014}}

Mansfield Super Bowl, a 28-lane alley with hospitality, opened in 1991. Facing closure in 2014, it was sold and refurbished in 2015.{{Cite news |date=18 September 2015 |title=Massive investment' put in to Mansfield's Superbowl |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=https://www.chad.co.uk/news/business/massive-investment-put-in-to-mansfield-s-superbowl–1-7469182 |access-date=12 January 2019}}

The old Carnegie Library, founded in 1905 in Leeming Street, became an arts and performance centre in 1976.{{Cite web |last=Weston |first=Liz |date=23 July 2009 |title=Carnegie Museum |url=https://www.ourmansfieldandarea.org.uk/content/topics/public-services/carnegie-library |access-date=17 February 2020 |website=Our Mansfield and Area |publisher=Mansfield District Council}} It houses a recording studio, meeting room and 100-seat Studio Theatre.{{Cite web |title=The Old Library venue |url=http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/enjoying/artsandculture/arts/theoldlibrary/ |access-date=6 January 2014 |website=Culture and leisure |publisher=Nottinghamshire County Council |archive-date=11 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140411140557/http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/enjoying/artsandculture/arts/theoldlibrary/ |url-status=dead }}

Mansfield also has a large Odeon Cinemas on a new retail and entertainment park outside the town centre.{{Cite web |title=Mansfield |url=http://www.odeon.co.uk/cinemas/mansfield/110/ |access-date=6 January 2014 |website=Odeon |publisher=Cinemas Holdings Limited}} The previous ABC town-centre cinema was used as a snooker centre until closure in 2012;{{Cite news |date=November 2012 |title=Jobs lost as snooker firm is sunk |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/jobs-lost-as-snooker-firm-is-sunk–1-5182258 |access-date=6 January 2014}} late in 2013 it was converted into a church.{{Cite news |date=September 2013 |title=Place of worship offers much more |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/place-of-worship-offers-much-more–1-6067102 |access-date=6 January 2014 |quote=Arena Church's plans for the old ABC Cinema and Riley's snooker hall in Leeming Street include community support groups and cinema screenings}}

image:Mansfield Cinema and restaurants.jpg and restaurants/bar.]]

Every year between June and August, Mansfield District Council hosts a Summer in the Streets festival. This consists of various public events held all across the town over many days, such as children's entertainment, fairground rides in the market square, and hands-on workshops for things like crafts and circus skills.

The festival highlight is a final event in Titchfield Park called Party in the Park. Its range of entertainment includes live music acts by local bands, performances from local dance groups, and activities such as face painting. For 2012 and 2013, this culminating event was cancelled for austerity reasons.{{Cite news |date=15 April 2012 |title=Mansfield Party in Park cancellation defended |work=BBC News |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |location=Nottingham |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-17720084 |access-date=19 February 2020}}{{Cite news |title=Mansfield District Council announces postponement of Party in the Park |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/mansfield-district-council-announces-postponement-of-party-in-the-park-tell-us-what-you-think–1-4438260 |access-date=16 December 2013}}

Mansfield was home to Venue 44,{{Cite web|url=https://www.retroheadz.com/music/rave-and-club-venues-uk/4/|title=The UK Rave & Club Venues That Are No More | Retroheadz.com|first=Matt TilkeIn|last=Cultureon|date=23 January 2017}} a nightclub that gave birth to the superclub Renaissance which was operated there in 1992–1994 by Geoff Oakes{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibiza-spotlight.com/night/reviews/2010/renaissance_18_birthday_i.htm|title=Interview: Geoff Oakes - 18 Years of Renaissance|website=Ibiza Spotlight}} and launched the DJ's Sasha, John Digweed, Nigel Dawson{{Cite web|url=https://www.djguide.nl/djinfo.p?djid=532&language=en|title=DJ Nigel Dawson|website=DJGuide party site}} and Ian Ossia to global fame.{{Cite web |date=12 May 2015 |title=Ian Ossia – There was a time, almost an instant, a few years ago where everything changed. |url=https://www.decodedmagazine.com/ian-ossia-there-was-a-time-almost-an-instant-a-few-years-ago-where-everything-changed/}} The building was demolished in 2010.

The Intake, a live-music venue in Kirkland Avenue, closed in 2016.{{Cite news |date=13 April 2016 |title=One of Mansfield's last rock venues to close |work=Mansfield Chad |url=https://www.chad.co.uk/news/one-of-mansfields-last-rock-venues-to-close-1249574 |access-date=12 January 2019}} The Town Mill, a former waterside mill on the banks of the Maun at the edge of the town centre, was turned into a pub and live music venue in 2002, but closed in 2010, citing the smoking ban, rising beer prices and recession among its reasons for failure.{{Cite news |title=Town Mill closes its doors |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/town-mill-closes-its-doors–1-2841163 |access-date=11 May 2013}}

On 21 August 2010 the Irish boy band Westlife performed live at Field Mill stadium, home to Mansfield's football team, the Stags. This was the first big-name act to visit the town.

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.{{NHLE |desc=CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST |num=1215129 |access-date=6 March 2024 }}{{Cite web |title=Mansfield St John - History |url=https://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/mansfield-st-john/hhistory.php |access-date=6 March 2024 |website=southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk}} St Mark's Church was built in 1897; the church building is Grade II listed.{{NHLE |desc=CHURCH OF ST MARK AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL |num=1214953 |access-date=6 March 2024 }} St Lawrence the Martyr Church on Skerry Hill was built in 1909 and is Grade II listed."A century of worship at St Lawrences's" Chad, 9 September 2009, p.17. Accessed 28 May 2024{{Cite web |title=St Lawrence's |url=https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/2856/ |access-date=6 March 2024 |website=www.achurchnearyou.com |language=en}}{{NHLE |num=1207186 |desc=Church of St Lawrence the Martyr |access-date=18 June 2024}}{{cite web | url=https://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/mansfield-st-lawrence/hintro.php | title=Mansfield St Lawrence - Introduction }}

St Philip Neri Church is a Roman Catholic Church on Chesterfield Road South.{{Cite web |date=2 October 2018 |title=Saint Philip Neri, Mansfield |url=http://www.stphilipmansfield.com/saint-philip-neri/ |access-date=6 March 2024 |website=Catholic Mansfield |language=en-GB}}

A Quaker Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends is on Rosemary Street.{{Cite web |title=Mansfield Quaker Meeting |url=https://www.quaker.org.uk/meetings/mansfield |access-date=6 March 2024 |website=Quakers |language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://nottsandderbyquakers.org.uk/mansfield/|title=Mansfield – Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Area Quaker Meeting}}

File:One Call Stadium.jpg, home of Mansfield Town FC]]

Mansfield is home to Mansfield Town FC, known as the Stags or yellows. Relegated to the Conference National after 77 years in the Football League at the end of the 2007–2008 season, Mansfield Town returned to the Football League after winning the 2012–2013 Conference National title. They were promoted to League One (Third Tier) for the first time in 22 years in April 2024.[https://www.chad.co.uk/sport/football/mansfield-town-finally-clinch-promotion-on-emotional-night-after-beating-accrington-stanley-4593819 Mansfield Town finally clinch promotion on emotional night after beating Accrington Stanley] Chad, 16 April 2024. Retrieved 28 May 2024 Non-League club AFC Mansfield plays in the Forest Town area of Mansfield.

Mansfield Rugby Club is a rugby union club based at Eakring Road and currently plays in Midlands 1 East, a sixth-tier league in the English rugby union system. It won the Notts Cup for five years in succession and for a record 18 times.

Mansfield Giants is Mansfield's Premier Basketball Club, and has a three-star Accreditation and Club Mark from the English Sports Council. The team plays in the England Basketball (EB2).

Mansfield hosted an annual half marathon for more than 30 years until 2011.

Angling is well supported in the Mansfield district, where ponds remain from the former textile milling industry.

Tennis is catered for by Mansfield Lawn Tennis Club located at the same site since 1883, with two grass courts and four asphalt courts, three of them floodlit.{{Cite web |title=Welcome to Mansfield Lawn Tennis Club |url=https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/MansfieldLawnTennisClub |access-date=19 February 2020 |publisher=Mansfield Lawn Tennis Club}} Further hard-surface courts are found in the district at six Mansfield District Council park locations.{{Citation |title=Mansfield District Council Parks Facilities |url=http://www.mansfield-dc.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=3061&p=0 |access-date=21 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228073746/http://www.mansfield-dc.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=3061&p=0 |publisher=Mansfield District Council |format=PDF |archive-date=28 February 2014}}

Mansfield is home to Mansfield Roller Derby, Mansfield's premier Flat Track Roller Derby league.{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.mansfieldrollerderby.co.uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171001205749/http://www.mansfieldrollerderby.co.uk/ |archive-date=1 October 2017 |access-date=25 May 2019 |publisher=Mansfield Roller Derby}}

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Mansfield has two indoor swimming centres and a third, smaller pool attached to a school.{{Cite news |title=Petition against closure |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/support-against-closure-of-warsop-pool–1-715140 |access-date=11 May 2013}} These facilities give Mansfield the largest square meterage of indoor water-sports facilities per capita of any town in the United Kingdom with less than 100,000 inhabitants.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} The town is one of three outlets for the Nottinghamshire County Council Swim Squad, which competes as Nova Centurion. The Rebecca Adlington Swimming Centre at Sherwood Swimming Baths includes a 25-metre pool and an endless stroke-improvement training pool with variable-resistance water flow. The complex uses a ground-source heat pump backed by a biomass boiler burning wood pellets prepared from waste by a local wood yard.{{Cite news |title=A look around the pool |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/look-around-becky-s-new–163-5m-baths–1-714981 |access-date=11 May 2013}}{{Cite news |title=Gone Green at pool |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/it-s-all-gone-green-at-the-new-adlington-pool–1-710332 |access-date=11 May 2013}}

At the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, a Mansfield contestant, Rebecca Adlington, won two gold medals, for 400 and 800-metre freestyle swimming. After her record-breaking success, Adlington was welcomed home to Mansfield by thousands lining the streets to applaud as she passed in an open top bus. This culminated in an appearance at the old Town Hall in the Market Square. Her success boosted swimming interest in the area, leading to expansion of swimming classes to encourage young people to begin swimming. At the 2012 Olympic Games in and around London, Adlington won two Bronze medals again for 400 and 800 metres, the best performance of a generally disappointing Team GB swimming squad. She retired from competitive swimming in February 2013.{{Cite news |last=Hope |first=Nick |date=5 February 2013 |title=Rebecca Adlington: Olympian ready for life after swimming |work=BBC Sport |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/swimming/21325869 |access-date=19 February 2020}}

Water Meadows swimming complex in Bath Street, on the site of the former Mansfield Baths, has a gym and a soft-play area for children with an adjoining café, as well as one 25-metre competition pool, two other pools, and a small teaching pool. The leisure lagoon pool has an artificial wave machine operating periodically, and also a slide and a shallow area like a beach. The complex is popular with family groups, and many surrounding schools make use of its facilities.

Mansfield Bowling Club is reputed to have origins in the 1700s. The club played at a bowling green to the rear of the Bowl in Hand pub in the town centre, until relocating into the grounds of Queen Elizabeth's Academy, with a new facility including pavilion opening in 2009.[https://www.mansfieldbowlingclub.co.uk/history Our Club History] Mansfield Bowling Club. Retrieved 1 February 2022Cheryl makes club history. "Mansfield bowling club on Monday elected Cheryl Crowe as the first woman president in its 320-year history.". Chad, 21 March 2012 p.96. Accessed 1 February 2022

The main cemetery and crematorium occupy a {{convert|10|acre|hectare}} site accessed from Derby Road, on the southern edge of town near the boundary with Ashfield. They share a car park. In late 2015, Mansfield District Council recognised the need for additional spaces and planning consent was obtained.{{Cite news |date=25 December 2015 |title=Car park plans given approval at cemetery |work=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad |url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/car-park-plans-given-approval-at-cemetery–1-7642275 |access-date=27 December 2015}} The older part of the cemetery, fronting Nottingham Road and Forest Hill (the old Derby Road) has on-street parking. Site access on foot can be hard due to the steep slope.

The cemetery was opened in 1857 due to insufficient church graveyard space, the mid-to-late Victorian population growth and several then-new churches built with little or no dedicated graveyard areas.{{Cite web |title=St. Lawrence Church Mansfield (1909) |url=http://www.achurchnearyou.com/mansfield-st-lawrence/ |access-date=24 August 2014 |website=A church near you |publisher=The Church of England}}{{Cite web |title=St. Mark Church Mansfield (1897) |url=http://www.achurchnearyou.com/mansfield-st-mark/ |access-date=24 August 2014 |website=A church near you |publisher=The Church of England}}{{Cite web |title=Church development |url=http://stjohnswithstmarys.org.uk/about-us/church-development/ |access-date=24 August 2014 |publisher=St John's with St Mary's Mansfield}} A 10-acre extension was made in 1898. Registered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as 'Nottingham Road Cemetery', this cemetery contains the war graves of 51 Commonwealth service personnel of World War I and 45 from World War II.{{Cite web |title=Mansfield (Nottingham Road) Cemetery, with list of casualties |url=https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/2069754/mansfield-nottingham-road-cemetery/ |access-date=16 June 2022 |website=Commonwealth War Graves Commission}}

The adjacent Mansfield and District Crematorium, with two chapels seating 35 and up to 80, was set up in 1960.{{Citation |title=Mansfield and District Crematorium (Official Booklet) |date=March 1997 |place=Norwich |publisher=Jarrold Publishing}} and is a responsibility shared between Mansfield District Council, Ashfield District Council and Newark and Sherwood District Council.{{Cite web |date=10 July 2013 |title=Mansfield & District Crematorium |url=http://www.mansfield.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826114232/http://www.mansfield.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1999 |archive-date=26 August 2014 |access-date=24 August 2014 |website=Mansfield District Council}}

There are other cemeteries on the A60 at Mansfield Woodhouse and at Warsop, and off the A617 at Pleasley Hill.{{Citation |title=Mansfield Cemetery |date=November 2002 |url=http://www.mansfield.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=2646&p=0 |access-date=24 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826113932/http://www.mansfield.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=2646&p=0 |publisher=Mansfield District Council |format=PDF |archive-date=26 August 2014}}

The local newspapers are the Chad{{Cite web|url=https://www.chad.co.uk/|title=Latest News|website=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad}} (formerly Chronicle Advertiser) and Mansfield and Ashfield News Journal, a community newspaper.

Radio stations include Mansfield 103.2, BBC Radio Nottingham and Capital Midlands.

Local television coverage is provided by BBC East Midlands Today and ITV News Central.

{{Main|List of people from Mansfield}}

• Andrea Adams, BBC broadcaster and journalist.
• Rebecca Adlington (born 1989), Olympic bronze and gold medallist swimmer{{Cite web |date=30 September 2010 |title=Ones to watch in Delhi: Rebecca Adlington |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/commonwealth_games/delhi_2010/9016935.stm |access-date=8 January 2022 |website=BBC Sport}}

File:Rebecca Adlington at Mansfield Town Hall 2008.jpg at the Mansfield Town Hall after the 2008 Summer Olympics]]

• Dorothy Atkinson, actress and singer
• Richard Bacon (born 1975), broadcaster
• John Balance (1962–2004), singer/musician with Coil
• Cassie Bradley, actress raised in Nottingham and Mansfield
• William Chappell (1582–1649), English scholar and clergyman
• James Collinson (1825–1881), Pre-Raphaelite painter
• Kris Commons (born 1983), Celtic F.C. footballer
• Nicholas Crafts (born 1949), economic historian
• Stephen Critchlow (1966–2021), radio, TV and stage actor
• John Darrell (1562–16??), Anglican clergyman known for his puritan views and practice as an exorcist
• Ed Davey (born 1965), British politician, Leader of the Liberal Democrats since 2019
• Craig Disley (born 1981), Grimsby Town F.C. footballer
• Robert Dodsley (1704–1767), playwright and poet, wrote The King and The Miller of Mansfield and Sir John Cockle
• Wes Dolan (born 1980), actor and singer/songwriter
• Suzanne Eggins, a linguist in Australia
• Watson Fothergill (1841–1928), Victorian architect
• Elspeth Gibson (born 1963), Nottingham-born fashion designer, studied at Mansfield College of Art and Design.{{Cite news |date=5 August 2000 |title=Cut and Taste |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2000/aug/05/fashion |access-date=25 April 2010}}
• Harry Harpham (1954–2016), coal miner and MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough
• Mark Henderson (born 1957), Tony Award winning lighting designer
• Mark Holmes (born 1960), lead singer of Canadian new wave rock group Platinum Blonde{{Cite news |last=Niester |first=Alan |date=11 August 1984 |title=Fame overtakes Platinum Blonde |page=E12 |work=The Globe and Mail |location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/386430393 |url-access=subscription |access-date=26 May 2022 |id={{ProQuest|386430393}} |via=ProQuest}}
• Samuel Jebb (1694–1772), English physician and literary scholar
• Rob Kozluk (born 1977), footballer
• Ric Lee (born 1945), drummer with Ten Years After
• Sir Richard Leese (born 1951), local politician in Manchester
• Leo Lyons (born 1943), bassist, songwriter, producer with Ten Years After
• Alexander Malcolm (1864–1956), former member of parliament in New Zealand
• Charles James Martin (1886–1955), artist
• William Martin (1767–1810), naturalist, born in Mansfield 1767.{{Cite book |last1=Highfill |first1=Philip H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cS6x-tsbNZEC |title=Belfort to Byzand |last2=Kalman |first2=A. |last3=Burnim |first3=Edward A. Langhans |year=1973 |isbn=9780809305186 |page=487 |publisher=SIU Press |access-date=12 February 2011}}
• John Ogdon (1937–1989), pianist, born in Mansfield Woodhouse
• Steve Ogrizovic, footballer born in Mansfield
• Greg Owen (born 1972), professional golfer
• Carly Paoli (born 1989), opera singer
• Joel Peat, lead guitarist of the band Lawson
• James Perch (born 1985), Mansfield Town footballer
• Tom Scott, YouTuber and former TV presenter
• Sir Charles Seely, 2nd Baronet (1859–1926), British Industrialist
• Alvin Stardust (1942–2014), pop singer, lived in the town when a child
• Richard Sterne (1596–1683), Archbishop of York in 1664
• Steve Ward (born 1957), accoladed as oldest active professional boxer
• John Bainbridge Webster (1955–2016), Professor of Divinity at St Mary's College, University of St Andrews.{{Cite press release |title=Professor John Webster Appointed to Chair in St Mary's College |date=29 April 2013 |publisher=School of Divinity, St Mary's College |url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/about/news/title,217819,en.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502002340/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/about/news/title%2C217819%2Cen.php |archive-date=2 May 2013 |work=University of St Andrews}}
• John Whetton (born 1941), track runner
• Helen Wilson (1864–1951), a physician and social purity campaigner
• Oliver Wilson (born 1980), professional golfer
• Dame Glenis Willmott - medical scientist and former Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party, aged 10 was raised in the town.
• Pollyanna Woodward, TV presenter
• James Graham (playwright), British Playright and Screenwriter.
• George Fox (founder of the Quakers) lived in Mansfield in 1647.

Mansfield is twinned with:

• Heiligenhaus, Germany{{cite web |last=Cox |first=Phoebe |url=https://www.chad.co.uk/news/people/photos-mansfields-sister-cities-and-towns-from-across-the-world-4839234 |title=2024 Photos: Mansfield's sister cities and towns from across the world |publisher=Chad |date=24 October 2024 |access-date=2 April 2025 }}
• Mansfield, Massachusetts, United States{{Cite web |date=8 January 2018 |title=Community parade plan to celebrate Mansfield is announced |url=https://www.chad.co.uk/news/community-parade-plan-celebrate-mansfield-announced-1058419 |access-date=7 January 2022 |publisher=Chad}}
• Mansfield, Ohio, United States{{Cite web |date=12 May 2017 |title=Tree from Mansfield's USA sister town for clean-up project |url=https://www.chad.co.uk/news/tree-mansfields-usa-sister-town-clean-project-1123203 |access-date=7 January 2022 |publisher=Chad}}
• Reutov, Russia{{Cite web |date=5 June 2017 |title=Does Russia care about the UK election? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40124046 |access-date=7 January 2022 |publisher=BBC}}
• Stryi, Ukraine{{Cite web |title=Міста-побратими |url=https://stryi-rada.gov.ua/mista-pobratymy/ |access-date=7 January 2022 |publisher=Stryi |language=uk}}

Mansfield has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb), with a narrow temperature range, an even spread of rainfall, low levels of sunshine and often breezy conditions throughout the year. The closest weather-station records for Mansfield come from Warsop in Meden Vale, seven miles to the north.

The absolute maximum temperature record for the area stands at {{convert|34.6|C|F}}, recorded in August 1990.{{Cite web |title=Anomaly details for station WARSOP, UNITED KINGDOM and index TXx: Maximum value of daily maximum temperature |url=http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/monitordetail.php?seasonid=14&year=1990&indexid=TXx&stationid=1851 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129170718/http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/monitordetail.php?seasonid=14&year=1990&indexid=TXx&stationid=1851 |archive-date=29 November 2011 |access-date=27 February 2011 |website=European Climate Assessment and Dataset |publisher=ECA&D Project Team, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute}} In a typical year the warmest day should reach {{convert|28.9|C|F}} and 12.72 days should reach {{convert|25.1|C|F}} or higher.{{Cite web |title=Climatology details for station WARSOP, UNITED KINGDOM and index TXx: Maximum value of daily maximum temperature |url=http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=TXx&stationid=1851 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129170714/http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=TXx&stationid=1851 |archive-date=29 November 2011 |access-date=27 February 2011 |website=European Climate Assessment and Dataset |publisher=ECA&D Project Team, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute}}{{Cite web |title=Climatology details for station WARSOP, UNITED KINGDOM and index SU: Summer days (TX > 25 °C) |url=http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=SU&stationid=1851 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129170711/http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=SU&stationid=1851 |archive-date=29 November 2011 |access-date=27 February 2011 |website=European Climate Assessment and Dataset |publisher=ECA&D Project Team, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute}}

The absolute minimum temperature record for the area is {{convert|-19.1|C|F}}, recorded in January 1987. There is air frost on an average of 59 nights a year.{{Cite web |title=Anomaly details for station WARSOP, UNITED KINGDOM and index TNn: Minimum value of daily minimum temperature |url=http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/monitordetail.php?seasonid=7&year=1987&indexid=TNn&stationid=1851 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129170721/http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/monitordetail.php?seasonid=7&year=1987&indexid=TNn&stationid=1851 |archive-date=29 November 2011 |access-date=27 February 2011 |website=European Climate Assessment and Dataset |publisher=ECA&D Project Team, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute}}

Rainfall averages 634 mm a year, with 113 days reporting in excess of 1 mm of rain (observation period 1971–2000).{{Cite web |title=Climatology details for station WARSOP, UNITED KINGDOM and index RR: Precipitation sum |url=http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=RR&stationid=1851 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129170704/http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=RR&stationid=1851 |archive-date=29 November 2011 |access-date=27 February 2011 |website=European Climate Assessment and Dataset |publisher=ECA&D Project Team, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute}}{{Cite web |title=Climatology details for station WARSOP, UNITED KINGDOM and index RR1: Wet days (RR >= 1 mm) |url=http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=RR1&stationid=1851 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129170707/http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=RR1&stationid=1851 |archive-date=29 November 2011 |access-date=27 February 2011 |website=European Climate Assessment and Dataset |publisher=ECA&D Project Team, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute}}

{{Weather box|location = Warsop,{{efn|Weather station is located {{convert|7.0|mi|1|abbr=out}} from the Mansfield town centre.}} elevation: {{convert|46|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}, 1971–2000 normals, extremes 1960–2006

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| metric first = y

| single line = y

| Jan record high C = 14.4

| Feb record high C = 17.7

| Mar record high C = 22.2

| Apr record high C = 25.3

| May record high C = 27.0

| Jun record high C = 31.6

| Jul record high C = 32.5

| Aug record high C = 34.6

| Sep record high C = 27.9

| Oct record high C = 23.9

| Nov record high C = 18.0

| Dec record high C = 15.0

| year record high C = 34.6

| Jan high C = 7.2

| Feb high C = 7.1

| Mar high C = 10.0

| Apr high C = 12.4

| May high C = 16.2

| Jun high C = 19.1

| Jul high C = 21.8

| Aug high C = 21.3

| Sep high C = 18.0

| Oct high C = 13.8

| Nov high C = 9.4

| Dec high C = 7.9

| year high C = 13.7

| Jan mean C = 3.8

| Feb mean C = 3.9

| Mar mean C = 6.1

| Apr mean C = 7.8

| May mean C = 10.9

| Jun mean C = 13.8

| Jul mean C = 16.1

| Aug mean C = 15.7

| Sep mean C = 13.2

| Oct mean C = 9.8

| Nov mean C = 6.1

| Dec mean C = 4.6

| year mean C = 9.3

| Jan low C = 0.4

| Feb low C = 0.6

| Mar low C = 2.2

| Apr low C = 3.2

| May low C = 5.6

| Jun low C = 8.4

| Jul low C = 10.4

| Aug low C = 10.1

| Sep low C = 8.4

| Oct low C = 5.8

| Nov low C = 2.8

| Dec low C = 1.3

| year low C = 4.9

| Jan record low C = -19.1

| Feb record low C = -15.6

| Mar record low C = -13.9

| Apr record low C = -6.7

| May record low C = -3.9

| Jun record low C = -1.7

| Jul record low C = 1.4

| Aug record low C = -0.1

| Sep record low C = -3.2

| Oct record low C = -6.6

| Nov record low C = -8.4

| Dec record low C = -15.2

| year record low C = -19.1

| precipitation colour = green

| Jan precipitation mm = 56.2

| Feb precipitation mm = 42.5

| Mar precipitation mm = 48.6

| Apr precipitation mm = 53.3

| May precipitation mm = 48.6

| Jun precipitation mm = 60.8

| Jul precipitation mm = 43.9

| Aug precipitation mm = 48.6

| Sep precipitation mm = 54.1

| Oct precipitation mm = 56.2

| Nov precipitation mm = 51.8

| Dec precipitation mm = 63.1

| year precipitation mm = 633.9

| unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm

| Jan precipitation days = 10.7

| Feb precipitation days = 8.7

| Mar precipitation days = 10.6

| Apr precipitation days = 9.4

| May precipitation days = 8.7

| Jun precipitation days = 9.2

| Jul precipitation days = 7.2

| Aug precipitation days = 8.3

| Sep precipitation days = 8.2

| Oct precipitation days = 9.8

| Nov precipitation days = 10.0

| Dec precipitation days = 11.5

| year precipitation days = 113.0

| source 1 = KNMI{{Cite web |title=Indices Data - Warsop Station 1851 |url=https://eca.knmi.nl//download/millennium/millennium.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709010608/https://eca.knmi.nl//download/millennium/millennium.php |archive-date=9 July 2018 |access-date=17 December 2018 |publisher=KNMI}}

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