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On [[12 September]] [[1304]], fire completely destroyed Mansfield Woodhouse, including its timber-framed church. The town was rebuilt using local materials with the new stone-built church, dedicated to St. Edmund, still standing today. |
On [[12 September]] [[1304]], fire completely destroyed Mansfield Woodhouse, including its timber-framed church. The town was rebuilt using local materials with the new stone-built church, dedicated to St. Edmund, still standing today. |
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The town recovered, and by Tudor times was home to a number of wealthy families. Farming and quarrying were the main livelihoods across the region, with Mansfield Woodhouse being no exception and this continued until the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when textiles and |
The town recovered, and by Tudor times was home to a number of wealthy families. Farming and quarrying were the main livelihoods across the region, with Mansfield Woodhouse being no exception and this continued until the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when textiles and hosiery came to the fore. |
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One thing not commonly known about Mansfield Woodhouse is that locally quarried stone was used to build the Houses of Parliament. |
One thing not commonly known about Mansfield Woodhouse is that locally quarried stone was used to build the Houses of Parliament. |
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Mansfield Woodhouse is a small town about 2 km north of Mansfield, in Nottinghamshire, England. With a history dating back before the Romans, it is still noteworthy for its stone built town centre. Mansfield Woodhouse's wealth has historically been based on its local quarrying, mining and textile industries.
Mansfield Woodhouse is a part of the Mansfield Urban Area and should not be classed as a separate civic entity other than in name.
History
The Romans had a fortress and a civilian settlement in the area with remains of a Roman villa famously found by Hayman Rooke in the 1780s. By the 13th century there was a growing local settlement of smallholders.
On 12 September 1304, fire completely destroyed Mansfield Woodhouse, including its timber-framed church. The town was rebuilt using local materials with the new stone-built church, dedicated to St. Edmund, still standing today.
The town recovered, and by Tudor times was home to a number of wealthy families. Farming and quarrying were the main livelihoods across the region, with Mansfield Woodhouse being no exception and this continued until the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when textiles and hosiery came to the fore.
One thing not commonly known about Mansfield Woodhouse is that locally quarried stone was used to build the Houses of Parliament.
On the road to Edwinstowe stands the Parliament Oak, which legend says that a king once held a session of Parliament there a long time ago. There is a plaque commemorating this.
Natives of include Mansfield Woodhouse D'Ewes Coke (1747-1811), an unusual combination of clergyman and colliery master. Mansfield Woodhouse is actually a village and known to be one of the biggest in the United Kingdom and is still growing and growing.
Sport
Speedway racing, then known as Dirt Track racing took place at Mansfield Woodhouse in the pioneer days of 1928.
Mansfield Woodhouse today
The town has a population estimated at over 25,000 although the percentage of the populace with an IQ below 75 is far greater than the national average with many inhabitants struggling to string a simple sentence together in either written or verbal communication.
There are a number of schools with the larger primary schools being St. Edmund's Church of England Primary School, Northfield Primary and Nursery School, Peafield Lane Primary and Nursery School, Leas Park Junior School and Nettleworth Primary and Nursery School. The largest school is The Manor School, a comprehensive school opened in September 1973, also the location of The Manor Sport and Recreation Centre.
The Co-op in Mansfield Woodhouse closed on January 10th, 2009, replaced by a Morrisons store opening on June 29th, 2009.
The town is served by Mansfield Woodhouse railway station, on the Robin Hood Lineto Nottingham.
The town has a volunteer run newsletter called The Woodhouse Warbler with a wide local circulation. New issues are produced every 3-4 months, although the general content of the publication is extremely parochial, very often poorly written, researched and edited and is therefore of little value to the majority of residents.
But give them their due, the Warbler team produced a magazine collecting the World War II memories of local people. It was funded by the Big Lottery Fund but is generally found to contain the meanderings of addled older minds and - again - is poorly produced or edited. The capacity of Woodhouse people to be lacking in even a small amount of knowledge of grammar, spelling, punctuation or coherent written English is immense.
Mansfield Woodhouse is known around Nottinghamshire for its junior football clubs; Woodhouse Colts JFC and Manor 4th FC. Both of which offer football to youngsters from the age of 6-18.