Mansfield

:This page is about the town of Mansfield in England. For other places or persons named Mansfield, see Mansfield (disambiguation).

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Mansfield is a town in Nottinghamshire. It lies on the River Maun, from which the name of the town (Maun's field) is derived. It is the main town in the Mansfield district and believed to be one of the largest in the United Kingdom.

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Nottinghamshire - River Maun - Mansfield - United Kingdom

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There has been a permanent settlement at Mansfield since the year 70AD, and the town was mentioned in the Domesday Book (pronounced Doomsday) of 1086. Around that time, Mansfield was the administrative camp of a defence force intended to repel attacks from Yorkshire, which was then still a seperate and hostile nation. After the Norman Conquest, Mansfield took on a role as the capital of the Royal Forest of Sherwood.

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Domesday Book - Yorkshire - Norman Conquest - Royal Forest of Sherwood

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The town has a museum and a theatre. Mansfield has a large market square and large commercial centre focusing around the market. The town has a population of 99,300 people. The town's rival is the nearby town of Chesterfield; the origins of the rivalry comes from the towns' football teams. The television presenter Richard Bacon came from Mansfield and the singer Alvin Stardust lived there as a child. Classical pianist John Ogdon was born in the suburb of Mansfield Woodhouse in 1937.

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Museum - Theatre - Chesterfield - Television - Richard Bacon - Alvin Stardust - Pianist - John Ogdon - Mansfield Woodhouse - 1937

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The area also has entertainment such as a cinema, swimming pool, and an exciting nightlife, with four nightclubs (Illusions, Coyote Wild, Liquid and The Late Lounge) and numerous pubs and bars. However Mansfield, which D.H. Lawrence described as "that once romantic now utterley disheartening colliery town" in Lady Chatterley's Lover still does not have a bookshop, apart from a small section in W H Smith.

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D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover - W H Smith

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In Nottinghamshire, Mansfield is regarded with some disdain, being as it is a working class town with little in the way of culture or scenery. That said, the ancestral home of Lord Byron, Newstead Abbey, is located not far away in Ravenshead. The community based Bandwagon Recording Studios are also to be found here.

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Nottinghamshire - Working class - Lord Byron - Newstead Abbey - Ravenshead

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The town's bus station is often cited by locals as one of the very worst places in England to spend time waiting for transport. The town continues to suffer from glaring problems with drugs, alcoholism and antisocial behaviour, possibly a legacy of its close links to the now almost defunct coal mining industry. It is known by many as a typical chav town.

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England - Drugs - Alcoholism - Antisocial behaviour - Coal - Chav

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