Mansfield

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{{infobox UK place||country = England|latitude= 53.1435|longitude= -1.1963|map_type = Nottinghamshire|official_name= Mansfield|population = 69,987|shire_district= Mansfield (district)|region= East Midlands|constituency_westminster= [Mansfield (UK Parliament constituency)|post_town= MANSFIELD|postcode_district = NG18, NG19|postcode_area= NG|dial_code= 01623|os_grid_reference= SK537610-->Mansfield is a town in Nottinghamshire, England. It lies on the River Maun, from which the name of the town is derived . It is the main town in the Mansfield (district) local government district. Mansfield is a conurbation with a total population of 158,114 inhabitants. Mansfield town at the heart of the conurbation has a population of 69,987. The District of Mansfield has a population of 100,000. The rest of the Urban Area's population live in the neighbouring boroughs of Bolsover, Ashfield and Newark & Sherwood.

Mansfield is well regarded as an area that has adapted well to change from the old traditional industries associated with the collapse of coal mining. However, like many other towns, it continues to suffer from glaring problems with Psychoactive drug, alcoholism and ASBO.

Mansfield is a part of the Mansfield Urban Area.

Economy Mansfield has a large market square and, focused around the market, a large commercial centre including a museum, the Palace Theatre, Mansfield, and numerous pubs, bars and clubs.

Mansfield was originally the home of Mansfield Brewery, once the largest independent brewer in the UK. The brewery was acquired by Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries for £253m in October 1999, with production of the Mansfield range of ales moving to other parts of the country. The brewery's physical assets were later sold on to Pubmaster Ltd, and the former site of the brewery is now derelict.

Several urban regeneration projects are underway in Mansfield, including reconstruction of the nearby Kings Mill Hospital.

Famous inhabitants The television presenter Richard Bacon (television presenter) 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. Mark Holmes, lead singer of the Toronto, Ontario New Wave music/stadium rock group Platinum Blonde (band), was born and partly raised there.

Mansfield is also the home of the Cantamus Girls Choir, World Choir Olympics champions.

The ancestral home of Lord Byron, Newstead Abbey, is located not far away in Ravenshead.

Transport Buses in Mansfield are primarily operated by Stagecoach Group, with Trent Barton, Veolia Transport (Dunn-Line) and Unity Coaches also operating in the area. 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.Planning permission has been given to develop a new bus station on the station road car park and is estimates to cost the region approx £7 million. The bus station, built in 1977, handles around 1,500 buses and 16,000 passenger arrivals a day. It is the busiest bus station in the county outside the City of Nottingham, but does not offer an attractive waiting environment and has poor pedestrian links to the town centre. The new bus station is an attempt for redevelopment of the old bus station site to enhance Mansfield town centre, and to regenerate the whole of the Stockwell Gate area. Potential improvements could include a fully enclosed waiting area; automatic doors for comfort and safety, a tourist information centre, electronic bus and rail departure information, toilets and baby changing facilities, tower with lift and stairs to an elevated walkway connecting to the rail station and bus driver's facilities.

The town is one terminus of the A38 road.

Mansfield is a stop on the Robin Hood Line, a relatively new rail link connecting the town with Nottingham and Worksop. Before the introduction of the Robin Hood Line in the 1990s, Mansfield was the largest town in the UK without a railway station.

The town was formerly the terminus of the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, built originally as a horse-drawn plateway in 1819 and one of the first acquisitions of the newly-formed Midland Railway. Prior to the 1970s, the town had two railway stations: the LNER line on Great Central Road, near Ratcliffe Gate, and the LNR line on Station Road, near Belvedere Street. From the early 1950s, however, the LNER line ceased carrying passengers and remained as a freight only line; and in the 1970s the LNR ceased to travel via Mansfield.

A tram service operated between 1905 and 1932, run by Mansfield & District Light Railways.

Sport Mansfield is home to Mansfield Town F.C., known as the Stags. The team's traditional rival is the nearby town of Chesterfield. Some Yorkshire folk still associate Mansfield with failure to support the UK Miners' Strike (1984-1985); football matches between Mansfield Town and Doncaster Rovers have seen fans of the latter chant "scab".

Angling is well supported in the Mansfield district, where ponds remain from the former textile milling industry.

Media The local newspaper is the Chad. Mansfield is home to one radio station, Mansfield 103.2 FM broadcast from the Fishpond's Hill transmitter on Skegby Lane which also broadcasts Mansfield versions of the Nottingham stations BBC Radio Nottingham and 96 Trent FM on 95.5 and 96.5 FM respectively.

Due to it's close proximity to many large towns in the Yorkshire/Midlands region Mansfield residents can also listen to the following local radio stations:

BBC Radio Leeds 92.4BBC Radio Sheffield 94.7 & 104.1BBC Radio Lincolnshire 94.9BBC Radio Derby 104.5BBC Radio Leicester 104.9

and a wealth of commercial FM stations:

Viking FM (Hull) 96.9Radio Faza (Nottingham) 97.1Hallam FM (Sheffield) 97.4 & 103.4Kemet FM (Nottingham) 97.5Heart (West Midlands) 100.7Smooth FM (East Midlands) 101.4 & 106.6Lincs FM (Lincolnshire) 102.2The Pulse (West Yorkshire) 102.5Ram FM (Derby) 102.8The Eye (Melton) 103.0Minster FM (York) 104.7Galaxy FM (Yorkshire Region) 105.1 & 105.8Leicester Sound 105.4Heart (East Midlands) 106.0Real Radio (Yorkshire Region) 106.2Peak FM (Chesterfield) 107.4Dawn FM (Nottingham) 107.6Trax FM (Worksop) 107.9

DAB broadcasts from Fishpond's Hill began on 21 July 2006 with the NOW Nottingham multiplex, subsequently the Digital One and BBC National muxes were also added (during 2006-07) to give excellent digital radio reception across the town.

Television reception in Mansfield however is a different story.

Television reception has often been problematic due to the location of the town being in between regions. Historically Mansfield has always been part of the BBC North and Yorkshire Television region. However since the arrival of Diamond Cable (formerly ntl, and now Virgin Media) BBC East Midlands and Central East were provided, and since regionalisation of SKY digital many residents can now watch BBC East Midlands (but not Central Television) via their SKY box.

The Belmont transmitter provides the best reception to most of the town offering analogue and digital tv, and is the most frequently used transmitter in the town, providing BBC East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire and Yorkshire Television (East). Whilst Yorkshire Television's news programme "Calendar" still covers Mansfield, BBC Look North has for many years refused to cover the town insisting that Mansfield belongs in the BBC East Midlands region (though few homes get acceptable terrestrial reception of BBC East Midlands).

Many homes do have dual aerials with one pointing at Belmont (or in some places Emley Moor) and the other at Waltham (East Midlands), the latter which usually gives a far inferior picture quality, but was often used in the days when ITV had more regional variations so that Mansfield folk could keep up with local news and sport. Dual aerial systems are largely being phased out as they will not work for reception of digital terrestrial tv, but many still remain from the 1990s and late 1980s when being able to receive the former Central TV was something of a status symbol!

Other transmitters serving Mansfield include Emley Moor- BBC Yorkshire & Yorkshire (West), Sutton Coldfield- BBC Midlands & Central (West) and Bilsdale- BBC North East & Tyne Tees (South) all three transmitters provide good signals across the town and in most cases you get a better picture from Bilsdale or Sutton Coldfield than Waltham!With the correct aerial it is also possible to pick up Granada Television from Winter Hill, though the picture is usually very poor quality.

Politics Mansfield is notable for being one of the few towns in the United Kingdom with a Elected mayors in the United Kingdom.

Criticisms D.H. Lawrence, in Lady Chatterley's Lover, described Mansfield as "that once romantic now utterly disheartening colliery town".Lawrence, DH: Lady Chatterley's Lover, Chapter 16. 1928.

The 2005 and 2007 editions of Channel 4's programme The Best and Worst Places to Live in the UK named Mansfield as the sixth and ninth worst place to live in Britain.

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