Worksop
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 19 ′ N , 1 ° 7 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 44,790 (as of 2012 (estimate)) | ||
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| Post town | WORKSOP | ||
| ZIP code section | S80 / S81 | ||
| prefix | 01909 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | East Midlands | ||
| Shire county | Nottinghamshire | ||
| District | Bassetlaw | ||
| British Parliament | Bassetlaw | ||
| Website: http://www.bassetlaw.gov.uk/ | |||
Worksop is a town with 44,790 inhabitants (estimate 2012) in the northwestern part of the county of Nottinghamshire in the region East Midlands in the UK , and close to Sherwood Forest . It is the seat and largest city of the Bassetlaw administrative district .
geography
The city in Nottinghamshire borders directly on the counties of Derbyshire and South Yorkshire and is traversed by the small river Ryton and the Chesterfield Canal . Nowadays the latter is only used for recreational activities. The slightly hilly and, especially by British standards, tree and wooded landscape in which the city is located, is home to large hard coal deposits. Worksop makes up part of the Sheffield City Region and is about 25 km southeast of Sheffield , with which it maintains close commuter ties .
history
Worksop is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, but it is believed that the site existed before the Norman conquest of England in 1066. Around 1103 a castle was built and a priory, today's Priory Church of Our Lady and Saint Cuthbert , was donated to the place. Worksop then developed into a market town and received royal city rights in 1296 .
Worksop was a small agricultural town and a local trading post up until the 18th century, initially with the construction of the Chesterfield Canal in 1777, but especially the connection to the railway network in 1849 and the industrial extraction of the rich hard coal deposits in the region of the city great updraft. From 1894 Worksop was an urban district . At that time the city had about 13,000 inhabitants.
Since the 1980s at the latest , a social and economic upheaval began in Worksop , not least because of the effects of the neoliberal policies of then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher . The coal mines that had provided the city with some prosperity and social stability for more than a hundred years closed. Unemployment skyrocketed and social and sanitary problems such as drug use flourished. In turn, the local economy recovered from the 2000s.
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
Until the end of the 20th century, Worksop was particularly characterized by coal mining and affine trade, but today the city is of economic importance, particularly through logistics and trading companies, several retail chains have their headquarters here or maintain a distribution center in the city. The number of unemployed over the age of 16 in the Bassetlaw district, to which Worksop belongs, averaged 4.6% in 2016 (UK average 2016 = 4.8%).
traffic
Worksop is the A-roads A57 , A60 and A619, which meet in the city, opened directly. The A57 connects Worksop to the west, approximately 10 km away, with the M1 (London - Leeds) and M18 motorways and on to Sheffield, in an easterly direction with the A1 (London - Edinburgh) and with the city of Lincoln . The A60 runs north to Doncaster and south towards Nottingham , the A619 west to Chesterfield .
Worksop is on the Sheffield - Lincoln railway line , on which trains run every hour from Monday to Saturday. The pace is tightened during peak times. Only six train pairs are offered on Sundays. The Worksop - Nottingham railway line also begins in Worksop and is marketed under the name Robin Hood Line . This line was closed for passenger traffic in the 1960s, but reopened to Worksop in 1998. Trains run every hour from Monday to Saturday. There is no train service here on Sundays.
The nearest international airport is Robin Hood Airport Doncaster-Sheffield, just 20 km northeast .
Public facilities
Worksop is home to Bassetlaw Hospital , a 300-bed public clinic.
In addition to a large number of primary and secondary schools, both private and public, there is also an institute for professional development in Worksop , North Nottinghamshire College , which is frequented by several thousand full and part-time students.
Worksop is also the administrative center of the Bassetlaw district.
Personalities
- Bruce Dickinson (* 1958), rock musician and singer in the heavy metal band Iron Maiden
- Donald Pleasence (1919–1995), actor
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e Bassetlaw District Council - History of Worksop.
- ^ Bassetlaw Growth Plan. (PDF; p. 4 - Introduction)
- ↑ bassetlaw.gov.uk
- ↑ visitoruk.com
- ↑ theguardian.com
- ↑ news.bbc.co.uk
- ↑ theguardian.com
- ↑ northnotts.co.uk
- ↑ nomisweb.co.uk
- ^ Northernrail.co.uk - Sheffield - Lincoln timetable (PDF).
- ^ East Midlands Trains - Timetable Worksop - Nottingham in Pdf format
- ↑ dbh.nhs.uk ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
