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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.
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.
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.
- Markets and Local Industry
- The Royal Connection
- Local Industry
- The Improvement Commission
- Transport
- Changes in Industry
- The Rise of Coal Mining and Quarrying
- The Workhouse
- Religion and Education
- The Twentieth Century
Having become the hub of a network of roads the town obtained a market charter in 1227 and still holds regular weekly markets. Being a trading centre for a much wider community it was able to expand its industry base during the medieval period into textiles, milling, quarrying and founding amongst other necessary support industries.
With Mansfield being relatively central to Sherwood Forest it became a medieval lodging place for royalty. As early as 1130 a Pipe Roll indicates that the King had a Chamber at Mansfield . Both King John and Edward II stayed at their palace in Kings Clipstone, on the outskirts of Mansfield . Above the town, on Berry Hill, is a site known as ‘King’s...
The medieval manor of Mansfield extended much further than the parochial boundaries to become one of the largest crown manors within the country, swallowing up many north Notts villages. However there was little concentration of dwellings, within the manor, prior to the establishment of Mansfield market. From this early medieval base local industry...
By 1824 the majority of this expanding town’s 8,300 residents lived within a 300metre radius of the market place, thus making the town a tightly packed community with substantial expanses of open spaces surrounding it. This concentrated area of Mansfield consisted of over 60 yards and courts most of which were overcrowded and falling into disrepair...
During the era of canal building much thought was given to the isolation of Mansfield from this network. After years of deliberation it was decided that it would be more economical to construct a tramline from the Pinxton canal wharf, into Mansfield town centre rather than constructing a canal. Consequently in 1819 Mansfield had been connected to t...
Whilst the mills retained their economic strength throughout the Victorian era, despite a turbulent economy, the remainder of Mansfield ’s industry saw vast changes. After several centuries the malting industry diminished to just one malt kiln by the end of the 1900s but had become complimented by a major brewer in 1855. Framework Knitting was hit ...
Towards the end of this era coal mining also became prominent within the area, with Mansfield becoming the local focal point for the industry. This latter industry enabled further expansion of engineering business, all of which enabled the population to grow at a phenomenal rate. The quarrying of limestone was a strong, although small, business pri...
The town had supported a workhouse since at least the middle of the eighteenth century. Prior to the new workhouse, on Stockwellgate, being opened in 1837, a smaller one was located on Nottingham Road, which ‘as a rule the permanent inmates numbered about twenty-four, forming a self contained community, doing their own weaving for sheets, etc., gro...
Religion was a prominent feature of the town with its multitude of different denominations. There were firmly established congregations of Presbyterians, Quakers (both from the 1660s), Methodists, Wesleyans, Congregational, Baptists, Methodist New Connexion and Primitive Methodists. Victorian education was offered by several private academies, Chur...
By the commencement of the twentieth century the population had reached 21,000, an increase from 6,000 just a hundred years earlier. However the expansion had not diminished, for over the next 50 years the population increased to over 51,000 primarily due to the establishment of local coalmines. These mines attracted families from many different pa...
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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.
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