Warsop

Church Warsop appeared in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a settlement named Wareshope and was recorded as having a church which was St Peter and St Paul. This formed part of the hundred of Bassetlaw. The area was divided amongst the Saxon Lords Godric, Leviet, and Ulchel.{{Cite web |title=[Church and Market] Warsop {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/church-and-market-warsop/ |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=opendomesday.org}}{{Cite web |title=Survey of English Place-Names |url=https://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/Nottinghamshire/Warsop/53286c06b47fc40bd4000917-Warsop}} Gleadthorpe Grange was also recorded in Domesday.{{Cite web |title=Gleadthorpe Grange - Survey of English Place-Names |url=https://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/Nottinghamshire/Warsop/53286beab47fc40bd4000650-Gleadthorpe+Grange}} From the Norman conquest period onwards, Warsop was held by the Norman Baron Roger de Busli, and partially held by the King's Soke of Mansfield. Sookholme and its medieval church St Augustine's along with Nettleworth Manor were first recorded later in public records during the 12th century.{{Cite web |title=CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, Warsop - 1262532 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1262532?section=official-list-entry |access-date=2025-04-20 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Sookholme - Survey of English Place-Names |url=https://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/Nottinghamshire/Sookholme/53286c06b47fc40bd40008f1-Sookholme}}{{Cite web |title=Nettleworth Manor - Survey of English Place-Names |url=https://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/Nottinghamshire/Warsop/53286beab47fc40bd4000651-Nettleworth+Manor}}

King John and Edward I are reputed to have had impromptu parliaments at the Parliament Oak Tree in the far east of the parish during the 13th century.{{Cite web |date=13 September 2017 |title=The Parliament Oak & Other Legendary Nottinghamshire Trees - Visit Nottinghamshire |url=https://www.visit-nottinghamshire.co.uk/blog/read/2017/09/the-parliament-oak-and-other-legendary-nottinghamshire-trees-b5542%7CThe}}

Henry III granted the advowson of the manor to Robert de Lexington in 1232, and after his death it passed to his brother John and further to his wife’s nephew Robert de Sutton, becoming lord of the manor in 1268. John Nunnes of London, obtained the manor in 1329 and he established a market in 1330. Two annual fairs were eventually granted along with a Saturday market located south of the River Meden. By this time, this area was known as Warsop Fair Town, and later Market Warsop, the original settlement north of the Meden becoming Church Warsop. The wider manor passed through to the de Roos family and their heirs the Earls of Rutland. The Knight family bought the manor In 1675, and in 1846 it was inherited by Sir Henry FitzHerbert of Tissington, the family continue hold much of the area into the present day.{{Cite web |title=Warsop - History |url=https://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/warsop/hhistory.php |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk}}{{Cite web |title=Lords of the Manor {{!}} Glen Morris |url=https://glenmorris.co.uk/?page_id=43 |access-date=2025-04-21 |language=en-US}}

Warsop watermill was built in 1767.{{NHLE|desc=Warsop Mill|num=1251898|access-date=23 March 2022}}

Warsop windmill, first called Forest Mill but also later known as Bradmer Mill, was a stone-built tower erected in 1825. It was 28 feet high with three storeys, a fourth storey being added later in brick. The mill had four sails, two of which were blown down by a gale in 1910, after which the mill was worked for a short time on the two remaining sails. By the 1920s the mill had lost all its sails and its cap. The tower is a Grade II listed building, standing to the southeast of Warsop close to the A6075.Shaw, T. (1995). Windmills of Nottinghamshire. Page 41. Nottingham: Nottinghamshire County Council. {{ISBN|0-900986-12-3}}

In 1930, Samuel Fell Wilson, a Warsop grocer, wine merchant, and publisher of the Warsop and District Almanack, was shot in the head and chest as he sat in his car outside the mill.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G1JSUt1ULEkC&pg=PA53|title=Unsolved Murders in and Around Derbyshire|first= S. C. |last=Lomax|year=2009|publisher=Wharncliffe Books|isbn=978-1845631147}} A street bears his name.

Warsop Town Hall was completed in 1933.{{cite web|url=https://www.warsopparishcouncil.co.uk/warsop-news/2020/winter2020.pdf|title=Warsop Town Hall 1933 - Present Day|publisher=Warsop Parish News|year=2020|page=4|access-date=23 March 2022}}

In 2010, a new Market Cross was commissioned and erected at Downy Hill, on the southern edge of the town centre at the side of the A60 road."New Warsop stone cross." Chad, 21 July 2010, p.28. Accessed 8 December 2024 Historically, a cross was known to have existed in the 1500s, and a replacement occurred in 1787. The foundations were excavated in 1911.[https://her.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/Monument/MNT15688/ Monument record M5327 - Market Cross, S end of Market St, Market Warsop] Nottinghamshire County Council. Accessed 8 December 2024

Two collieries were built within the parish to take advantage of lucrative coal seams within Nottinghamshire, Warsop Main to the north west in 1893 and Welbeck (the grounds of which overlapped mostly into the adjacent and present-day Norton, Cuckney, Holbeck and Welbeck civil parish) in the north east from 1912. Communities were established alongside them to house miners and their families, Warsop Vale and Meden Vale (originally Welbeck Colliery Village) respectively, while Spion Kop was built south west of Market Warsop as an overspill settlement. Warsop Main closed in 1989 and Welbeck in 2010.{{Cite web |title=P12 - 1989 - Bob Bradley |url=http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-6/B6-1989-P12.html |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=www.healeyhero.co.uk}}{{Cite web |title=P1- 2010- Bob Bradley |url=http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-7/B7-2010-P1.html |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=www.healeyhero.co.uk}}

The parish was an urban district in Nottinghamshire until 1974, when it joined with Mansfield Borough and Woodhouse Urban District Council to form Mansfield District Council. Warsop retains a council, as a successor parish, including the localities of Market Warsop, Church Warsop, Meden Vale, Warsop Vale and Spion Kop.{{cite web|url=https://www.mansfield.gov.uk/town-centre-parking/mansfield-town-centre|title=Mansfield Town Centre|publisher=Mansfield Council|access-date=24 March 2022}} The council is based at Warsop Town Hall.{{cite web|url=https://www.warsopparishcouncil.co.uk/about-the-council.html|title=About the Council|publisher=Warsop Parish Council| access-date=24 March 2022}}

After re-alignment of local wards within Mansfield District Council before the 2011 local elections to achieve a standard format of one councillor-per-ward, Warsop has four designated wards named as Warsop Carrs, Netherfield, Market Warsop and Meden.[https://web.archive.org/web/20170916095005/http://www.lgbce.org.uk/current-reviews/east-midlands/nottinghamshire/mansfield-electoral-review The Local Government Boundary Commission for England] Retrieved 3 June 2020[http://www.warsopparishcouncil.co.uk/about-the-council.html The Parish Council], www.warsopparishcouncil.co.uk Retrieved 3 June 2020

Warsop is a part of the Mansfield Parliamentary Constituency since 2010, whose MP from 2017 to May 2024 was Ben Bradley, followed by Steve Yemm.{{cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/4663/contact|title=Ben Bradley|publisher=UK Parliament|access-date=24 March 2022}}

Warsop is surrounded by Mansfield Woodhouse and Mansfield to the south, Shirebrook and Langwith in Derbyshire to the west, Nether Langwith, Cuckney and Norton to the north, Perlethorpe cum Budby, Edwinshowe and Kings Clipstone parishes to the east.

The parish contains five historic settlements and three former mining villages:{{Cite web|title=Neighbourhood area|url=https://www.mansfield.gov.uk/downloads/file/407/warsop-parish-neighbourhood-plan-area}}

• Market Warsop, the largest area at the centre, south of the River Meden
• Church Warsop, north of the Meden
• Sookholme, to the west of the parish
• Nettleworth Manor, in the south west
• Gleadthorpe Grange to the far north east.

Nearby settlements built to support local mining activities in the 20th century were:

• Meden Vale, in the north east
• Warsop Vale to the north west
• Spion Kop in the south of the parish sited along a short stretch of the A60 road

At the 2001 census the overall parish had a population of 12,365,[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=798397&c=NG20+0SL&d=16&e=15&g=479007&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1207742028468&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 "Area: Warsop CP (Parish)"] reducing to 11,999 at the 2011 census,{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11130180&c=Warsop&d=16&e=62&g=6457252&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1459955914812&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=6 April 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}} and increasing to 12,644 in 2021.

Market Warsop is home to Meden School on Burns Lane, part of a local group named Torch Academy Gateway Trust.[http://www.torchacademy.co.uk/ Torch Academy Gateway Trust] - schools in the trust Retrieved 2014-10-29 Former pupils include television hosts Pollyanna Woodward and Simon Mapletoft, Mansfield 103.2 presenter Jason Harrison, Breakfast Show host Joe Sentance on Rother FM/Dearne FM, ex-Everton footballer Neil Pointon, former England wicketkeeper Bruce French and his nephew, and current England and Nottinghamshire fast bowler Jake Ball.{{cite news|url=https://www.chad.co.uk/sport/cricket/warsop-ace-jake-ball-keeping-mum-after-leading-nottinghamshire-yb40-final-lords-2325810|title=Warsop ace Jake Ball keeping 'mum' after leading Nottinghamshire to YB40 final at Lord's|date=10 September 2013|publisher=Chad|access-date=24 March 2022}}

Warsop railway station operated between 1897 and 1955. There is some ambition for eventual reopening of the line currently freight only between Shirebrook and Warsop.

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Stagecoach bus 12 runs twice an hour between Shirebrook, Warsop and Mansfield. Stagecoach bus 11 also runs twice an hour between Meden Vale, Warsop and Mansfield, giving Warsop a bus service into Mansfield every 15 minutes. Another bus, numbered 209, runs between Edwinstowe and Worksop via Warsop and Cuckney every two hours.{{cite web|url=https://www.stagecoachbus.com/routes/east-midlands/209/worksop-edwinstowe/xgao209.i|title=209 Bus Route & Timetable: Worksop - Edwinstowe|publisher=Stagecoach|access-date=24 March 2022}}

Television signals are received from either the Emley Moor or Belmont TV transmitters. Local radio station are provided by BBC Radio Nottingham, Capital East Midlands, and Mansfield 103.2, a community based station which broadcast from Mansfield. {{Cite web |url=https://www.mansfield103.co.uk/|title=Mansfield 103.2 FM|access-date=6 November 2023}} The town is served by the local newspaper, Mansfield and Ashfield Chad. {{cite web|url=https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-emids/mansfield-chad/|title=Mansfield and Ashfield Chad|date=24 August 2013|website=British Papers|accessdate=6 November 2023}}

In July 2012, local woman Charlotte Collinge was found guilty of the murder of her husband Clifford Collinge and was sentenced to 23 years. Her two male accomplices were both sentenced to 18 years.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-19062336 Clifford Collinge murder: Wife jailed for 23 years] BBC News, 31 July 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2021

Following a re-trial in July 2015, Collinge was found not guilty, but the sentences on both accomplices were re-imposed.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-33390008 Clifford Collinge widow Charlotte cleared after murder retrial] BBC News, 3 July 2015. Retrieved 12 November 2021

The parish holds an annual carnival on The Carrs playing fields, just off the main A60 road: it is traditionally scheduled on the first or second Sunday in July.[http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/sun-shines-on-warsop-carnival-1-6717496 Chad, local newspaper, July 2014 Sun shines on Warsop Carnival] Retrieved 2014-08-24

{{Main|Listed buildings in Warsop}}

The parish contains 28 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two medieval churches at Church Warsop and Sookholme are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, the Parish Centre building at Church Warsop is at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, which include architectural items ranging from a war memorial, farmhouses and related structures, bridges and a windmill.

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• [http://www.warsopparishcouncil.co.uk/ Warsop Parish Council homepage]

• [http://www.warsopweb.co.uk/ Warsop area Community page]

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