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Mansfield / ˈ m æ n s f iː l d / is a market town and the administrative centre of the Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area [2] and the second largest settlement in Nottinghamshire (following the city of Nottingham). It gained the Royal Charter of a market town in 1227.
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Mansfield is an ancient Nottinghamshire market town, which, by mid-Victorian times, became the county’s second largest township. Archaeological finds indicate that settlements have been here since Neolithic times, while numerous finds, including the remains of a villa, show that there was a Roman settlement in the area.
Oct 5, 2024 · Mansfield was the chief town of Sherwood Forest —the legendary base for the activities of Robin Hood, the medieval robber and popular hero—and the forest court was held in the town’s Moot Hall (built 1752).
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Earl of Mansfield, in the County of Nottingham, and Earl of Mansfield, in the County of Middlesex, are two titles in the Peerage of Great Britain that have been united under a single holder since 1843.
Mansfield is a town in Nottinghamshire, England. There is also the smaller settlement of Mansfield Woodhouse to the north. The town is surrounded by a pocket of steep hills within the Maun Valley.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, PC (2 March 1705 – 20 March 1793), was a British judge, politician, lawyer, and peer best known for his reforms to English law. Born in Scone Palace, Perthshire, to a family of Scottish nobility, he was educated in Perth before moving to London at the age of 13 to study at Westminster School.
May 18, 2018 · William Murray, first earl of Mansfield, was an eighteenth-century English lawyer and judge who, along with sir william blackstone and sir edward coke, played an important part in molding U.S. law. His revision of property law and his formulation of basic principles of contract law provided the basis for modern commercial law .
