Warsop

Coordinates: 53°12′N 1°09′W / 53.20°N 1.15°W / 53.20; -1.15

Warsop
The Gate Inn, Warsop
Warsop Warsop shown within Nottinghamshire
Population	12,365  (2001)
District	Mansfield
Shire county	Nottinghamshire
Region	East Midlands
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MANSFIELD
Postcode district	NG20
Dialling code	01623
Police	Nottinghamshire
Fire	Nottinghamshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
European Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Bassetlaw
List of places: UK • England • Nottinghamshire

Warsop is a civil parish in the District of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, England, located on the outskirts of Sherwood Forest. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 12,365.^[1] The parish holds an annual carnival which has traditionally been held on the first or second Sunday in July. In the last couple of years the carnival has been expanded to the Saturday as well with this day being used as a sports day and music festival. The event is held on The Carrs playing fields.

It is home to The Meden School & Technology College which is situated on Burns Lane former pupils include television hosts Pollyanna Woodward and Simon MapletoftMansfield 103.2 presenter Jason Harrison and Rother FM Breakfast Show host Joe Sentance, ex-Everton footballer Neil Pointon and England wicketkeeper Bruce French.

The parish formed an urban district in Nottinghamshire until 1974. It retains a council, as a successor parish. The parish includes Market Warsop, Church Warsop, Meden Vale, Warsop Vale and Spion Kop.

Mansfield District is twinned with the German town of Heiligenhaus, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Warsop watermill was built in 1767 and restored in 1924. It is open to the public for the sale of flour.

Warsop windmill, first called Forest Mill but also later known as Bradmer Mill, was a stone-built tower built 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. 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. The murderer was never identified. The mill was to have been demolished the same year, but was saved by the actions of a local councillor. The tower is now a listed building, standing to the south-east of Warsop close to the A6075^[2].

Superhero Street Sweeper Barry Snowdon who works in Warsop has been nominated in the bravey category of the Local Government Council Worker of the Year awards. To vote for him text LGATV 9 BarryS to 80039 (all texts are charged at your standard network rate) before Thursday 2 July 2009.

Ollerton Branch

Branching off just north off Shirebrook there is a branch that heads for High Marnham power station via Market Warsop, Edwinstowe and Ollerton. There are plans, as part of an extension of the Robin hood line to extend the hourly train to Mansfield Woodhouse railway station from Nottingham railway station, calling at Shirebrook railway station, a reopened sation at Market Warsop, a reopend station at Edwinstowe (for Sherwood Forest Centre Parks and a reopened station at Ollerton. This was being put forward by councillor Smedley, councillor for Ollerton and until the Labour group lost the control of Nottinghamshire County Council holder of the transport portfolio.

References

External links

• Market Warsop Community page
• The Black Market and Musos

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