Worksop, Nottinghamshire - multiview - Friths postcard 1952

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  'Greetings from Worksop', Nottinghamshire - Bridge Street / The Major Oak / The Memorial Gardens / Clumber Bridge / The Priory Gatehouse
• Publisher:  Friths
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  George VI 2d brown
• Postmark(s):  Worksop 14 May 1952 wavy line
• Sent to:  Mrs. G. Powell, Doliago, Irfon Road, Builth Wells
• Notes / condition: 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Worksop is the largest town in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England, on the River Ryton at the northern edge of Sherwood Forest. It is about 15 miles (24 km) east-south-east of the City of Sheffield and its population is estimated (mid-2004) to be 39,800. Worksop is included in the Sheffield City Region of England. It is also twinned with the German town Garbsen.

Worksop is known as the ""Gateway to the Dukeries"", so called for the number of ducal residences in the area.

Evidence that Worksop existed before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 is provided by the Domesday Book of 1086:

""In Werchesope, (Worksop) Elsi (son of Caschin) had three carucates of land to be taxed. Land to eight ploughs. Roger has one plough in the demesne there, and twenty-two sokemen who hold twelve oxgangs of this land, and twenty-four villanes and eight bordars having twenty-two ploughs, and seven acres of meadow. Wood pasture two miles long, and three quarentens broad.""^[1]

In about 1103, William de Lovetot established a castle and the Augustinian priory at Worksop. Subsequently Worksop grew into a market town.

A skirmish occurred in the area during the Wars of the Roses on 16 December 1460, commonly known as the Battle of Worksop.

The building of the Chesterfield Canal in 1777, and the subsequent construction of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1849, both of which passed through the settlement, led to a degree of growth. Discovery of sizeable coal seams further increased interest in the area.

Coal mining provided thousands of jobs in and around Worksop for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, but by the 1990s the pits had closed, resulting in high local unemployment. Drug abuse in the area also soared.^[2]

Unemployment levels in the area are now lower than the national average, owing to large number of distribution and local manufacturing companies, including Premier Foods, Wilkinsons, RDS Transport, GD Engineering, Pandrol UK Ltd and Laing O'Rourke.

Worksop lies on the A57 with links to the A1, M1 and A60, allowing goods to be easily transported into and out of the area, explaining why Wilkinson and B&Q both have distribution centres in the area.

Worksop is on the Sheffield-Lincoln line, with trains to Sheffield, Doncaster, Meadowhall, Lincoln, Retford, Gainsborough and Shireoaks. The service is run by Northern Rail. Worksop is also the terminus of the Robin Hood line to Nottingham and Mansfield, a service run by East Midlands trains. At weekends trains run to Cleethorpes and Bridlington from Worksop run by Northern Rail.

Bus services provided by Stagecoach Nottinghamshire and Veolia Transport operate in the town and to Doncaster, Shireoaks, Langold, Harworth, Misson, Bawtry, Everton, Mattersey, Retford, Blyth, Bircotes, Clowne, Tickhill, Rossington, Chesterfield, Misterton, Beckingham, Gainsbourgh, Kiveton Park, Killamarsh, Sheffield - Crystal Peaks, Ollerton, and Robin Hood Airport.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=nottinghamshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=posted