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Worksop is a town in Nottinghamshire, England, situated on the River Ryton although its nearest city is Sheffield in South Yorkshire. The town is located at 53º 19’N, 1º 7’W, at the northern edge of Sherwood Forest. Population (2004): 39,800.1 History
Worksop was founded in Anglo-Saxon times, and existed for a long time as a market town. 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 sizable coal seams further increased interest in the area.
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Worksop is known as the "Gateway to the Dukeries", so called for the number of ducal residences in the area.
The town was the setting for the children's television show, Maid Marian and her Merry MenMaid Marian and her Merry Men was a UK children's television series created and written by Tony Robinson. It began in 1989, with the last episode shown in 1994. The show was a comic re-telling of the legend of Robin Hood, placing Maid Marian in the role o, where it was depicted largely as a mass of mud.
Worksop was the birth place of:
- Donald Pleasance, actor
- Lee WestwoodLee Westwood (born 24 April 1973) is an English professional golfer. Born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, Westwood began to play golf aged 13. Less than two years later he was the junior champion of Nottinghamshire. In 1990 he won his first amateur tournamen, golfer
- Bruce DickinsonBruce Dickinson (Paul Bruce Dickinson, born August 7, 1958 in Worksop Notts, England) is the lead singer in the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Before this, he was singer in similar band Samson from 1980 until he joined Iron Maiden with their Number of the, singer in the heavy metalHeavy metal is a form of rock music characterized by aggressive, driving rhythms and highly amplified and distorted guitars, and the themes explored in heavy metal lyrics are often dark or sexually explicit. Heavy metal is a development of blues, blues ro band Iron MaidenIron maiden is also the name for a medieval torture device. Iron Maiden is a heavy metal band from east London, England, which was formed in 1975 by bassist Steve Harris, formerly a member of Gypsy's Kiss and Smiler. Iron Maiden is considered to be one of
- Graham TaylorGraham Taylor (born September 15 1944, Worksop, Nottinghamshire) is a football manager and a former player. His most recent job has been manager of Aston Villa, who he left at the end of the 2003 season, he has most notably been the manager of the England, football manager
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Towns in Nottinghamshire
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