Worksop, Nottinghamshire
Historical Description
Worksop, a market-town and a parish in Notts. The town stands on the river Ryton and the Chesterfield Canal, 23 miles N of Nottingham, has a station on the M.S. & L.R., and a head post office; was known at the Norman Conquest as Wirchesop; is a seat of petty sessions and county courts, and carries on a large trade in flour, timber, railway sleepers, Windsor chairs, and timber sawing. There are a county police station, a corn-exchange and assembly-room in the Venetian style, a mechanics' institute, a workhouse for 200 inmates, brass and iron foundries, chemical works, saw-mills, malt kilns, a weekly corn and fat stock market on Wednesday, and a cattle and horse market in April and October. The town is governed by an urban district council. The parish includes several hamlets, and comprises 20,731 acres; population, 12,805. It is divided into the two ecclesiastical parishes of St Mary and St Cuthbert and of St John; population of the former 6019, of the latter 5753. The livings are both vicarages in the diocese of Southwell; gross values, £230 and £251 with residence. There are Roman Catholic, Congregational, Primitive and United Free Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels, and an ancient market-cross. St Cuthbert's College, a magnificent pile of buildings, was opened in 1895. The manor belongs to the Duke of Newcastle, whose seat, Clumber Park, stands in a park of 4000 acres. To the E of the house is a private chapel consisting of choir, nave, transepts, and lofty tower with spire.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Nottinghamshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Worksop St. Mary and St. Cuthbert | |
Poor Law union | Worksop | |
Wapentake | Bassetlaw |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Worksop from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Worksop (St. Mary and St. Cuthbert))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Nottinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Worksop are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Nottinghamshire newspapers online:
- Nottingham Evening Post
- Nottinghamshire Guardian
- Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties
- Nottingham Gazette, and Political, Literary, Agricultural & Commercial Register for the Midland Counties
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Nottinghamshire 1569 & 1614 is available on the Heraldry page.