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Mansfield is a town in Nottinghamshire. It lies on the River Maun, from which the name of the town (Maun's field) is derived. It is the main town in the Mansfield district.
The town has a museum and a theatre. Mansfield has a large market square and large commercial centre focusing around the market. The town has a population of 99,300 people. The town's rival is the nearby town of Chesterfield; the origins of the rivalry comes from the towns' football teams. The television presenter Richard Bacon came from Mansfield and the singer Alvin Stardust lived there as a child.
The town was, until the 1990s, the largest in the UK without a railway station. One has since been built, on the Robin Hood Line, which runs on a large viaduct over the town centre. Buses in Mansfield are operated by Stagecoach.
Mansfield is home to the Football League club Mansfield Town F.C.Mansfield Town F. are an English football club who will play the 2004-05 season in League Two of the Football League. Based in the small former mining town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, the club are nicknamed The Stags and play in the colours of amber an. There is also a large sports college in the suburb of Mansfield Woodhouse .