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Worksop, market town and par., Notts, on river Ryton, near the N. extremity of Sherwood Forest, 18 miles SE. of Sheffield and 147 N. of London by rail-par., 18,220 ac., pop. 11,625; town, pop. 10,588; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks. Market-day, Wednesday. Worksop has an extensive trade in malt and timber, and mfrs. of agricultural implements, railway sleepers, and Windsor chairs. It was known at the Conquest as Wirchesop.

From: John BARTHOLOMEW's "Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)"

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Archives & Libraries

A Free Public Library and Technical Institute was opened in the Watson Road in 1902.

The Worksop Library in Memorial Ave. is a branch of the Nottingham County Council Library System. It is normally open 7 days each week (verify by phone if you are visiting), but is closed until the summer of 2020 due to recent flooding in Worksop. There is a car park next to the library.

There is also the Balmoral Library on Princess Anne Road, Worksop. This Library was only open 2 days per week.

David MARTIN has a photograph of the Worksop Library on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2017.

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Cemeteries

  • In 1866 a cemetery of 4 acres was laid out next to the churchyard on Prior's Well Road. It had two mortuary chapels.
     
  • Steven RUFFLES has a photograph of the Prior's Well Road Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2017.
     
  • Neil THEASBY has a photograph of a Wall of old gravestones at the Priory graveyard on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2016.
     
  • In 1902 a new cemetery of 16 acres was laid out on Retford Road.
     
  • J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Cemetery chapel on Retford Road on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2014.
     
  • Both cemeteries would be under the control of the Burial Board of the Urban District Council.
     
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Census

  • The parish was in the Worksop sub-district of the Worksop Registration District.
     
  • The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
     
Census
Year
Piece No.
1841 H.O. 107 / 852
1851 H.O. 107 / 2122
1861 R.G. 9 / 2418 & 2419
1871 R.G. 10 / 3458 through 3460
1881 R.G. 11 / 3305 and 3306
1891 R.G. 12 / 2643 & 2644
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Church History

  • The Priory of Saint Cuthbert and Saint Mary was founded here in 1120.
     
  • Richard CROFT has a photograph of the gatehouse at Worksop Priory on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2005.
     
  • Richard CROFT has a photograph of the inside of Worksop Priory nave on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2011.
     
  • The town had two ecclesiastical parishes within the civil parish: St. Cuthbert and St. John.
     
  • St. Cuthbert 's is approached through the Priory gate and was thoroughly restored in 1861.
     
  • St. John's parish was formed in 1867 and a church with that dedication was built in 1868 on the east side of Gateford Road in the Early English Style.
     
  • St. John's has a western tower with a clock and two bells.
     
  • St. John's seats 580.
     
  • St. Anne's church was built in 1911 and opened in 1912.
     
  • Ann B. has a photograph of St Anne's Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2006.
     
  • Christ Church is a modern building in the parish of St John, built 1992 on Thievesdale Close and consecrated in January 1993.
     
  • St. Paul's Church is a in a parish formed in 1953 from the priory parish. Services began in a wooden hut in 1954. The hut was replaced by a brick church in 1956.
     
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Church Records

  • The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1558-1857.
     
  • The Anglican parish register for St. Cuthbert dates from 1558.
     
  • The Anglican parish register for St. John dates from 1868.
     
  • The Anglican churches would be in the rural deanery of Worksop.
     
  • The United Methodist Free Church was built here in 1837 on Potter Street.
     
  • A Catholic chapel was built here on Park Street in 1840. It is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin.
     
  • In 1863 the Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in Bridge Street.
     
  • In 1830 the Congregationalist Church was built in Westagte. (this was vacant in 1881).
     
  • In 1876 another Congregationalist Church was built to hold 450 persons.
     
  • In 1879 the Primitive Methodist chapel was built on Chapel Street.
     
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Civil Registration

  • The parish was in the Worksop sub-district of the Worksop Registration District.
     
  • Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
     
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Description & Travel

This market town and parish are 147 miles north of London, 18 miles east of Sheffield, 12 miles north-east of Mansfield and about 5.5 miles west of Retford, on the north edge of Sherwood Forest. The parish indludes the hamlet of Kilton, where the sewage works were built, and covers just under 18,000 acres, making it the largest parish in Nottingham county. Manton and Rayton or Ryton are hamlets just to the east of Worksop. Sparken Hill is a half mile south of Worksop.

Osberton is a Lordship 3 miles to the east within the parish. Gateford is a hamlet and constablewick on the Sheffield Road two miles NNW of Worksop village and still within the parish boundaries. If you are planning a visit:

  • By automobile, the town lies on the A57 trunk road, west off of the A1 motorway.
     
  • Ben BROOKBANK takes you back in time to 1957 with his photograph of Worksop Station, with train from Nottingham on Geo-graph, taken in June 1957.
     
  • Kilton Forest Golf Course is just to the north of the town.
     
  • Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Worksop Town Sign on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2015.
     
You can see pictures of Worksop which are provided by:

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Directories

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Gazetteers

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Genealogy

In the third quarter of 1927, the marriage of Fred BARNES and Labelle TICKLE is registered. Dorothy HARGREAVES tells us that the marriage was at Zion Chapel, John St., Worksop.

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History

  • The town has an ancient market cross from 1160. Only the shaft and the steps remain.
     
  • King Stephen visited Worksop in 1161.
     
  • During the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, the Priory and 15 monks were pensioned off. All the Priory buildings, except the nave and west towers of the church, were demolished.
     
  • The town was known for centuries for growing Licorice and continued until around 1750. Timber was an important industry also. Worksop Windsor Chairs were made and exported from here. Hops (for beer-making) were a big crop here in the 1800s, but largely disappeared after 1920.
     
  • In 1859 the town was fully sewered and drained at a cost of £6,000.
     
  • The discovery of coal meant that by 1900 the majority of the workforce was employed in coal mining, which provided thousands of jobs - both directly and indirectly - in and around Worksop for most of the 19th and 20th centuries.
     
  • In 2007, the town was flooded by one of the worst floods in a century. The River Ryton received 72mm (around 3 inches) of rain in 24 hours.
     
  • Clumber Park, the seat of the Duke of Newcastle, lies about 2 miles south-east of the town. In 1900, the park covered 4,000 acres with a 100 acre lake.
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Manors

In 1258, a surviving charter confirms Matilda de LOVETOT's grant of the manor of Worksop to William de FURNIVAL (her son).

Worksop Manor stood about a mile from Worksop village. It burned down in 1759 (several dates have appeared in various records). A high wind was blowing at the time and the place was completed consumed.

In 1904 Sir John ROBINSON resided in the Manor House.

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Maps

  • See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK595788 (Lat/Lon: 53.302816, -1.108619), Worksop which are provided by:

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Medical Records

  • A Dispensary was established in 1867 in Potter Street.
     
  • A 5-bed Victoria Hospital founded in 1897 opened here in 1900. It was a memorial of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. It was enlarged in 1912 to 26 beds. This hospital became part of the NHS in 1948 and was demolished in 1996.
     
  • The Bassetlaw District Hospital started out in 1902 as Worksop's Poor Law Infirmary. Parts of this building still exist. In 1984, construction started on a modern Bassetlaw Hospital and finished in 1987. The Hospital joined with Doncaster Hospital as a part of the NHS in 2001.
     
  • Hospitals were exempt from archiving laws relating to patient records.
     
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Military History

  • The "Battle of Worksop" in December, 1460, during the War of the Roses, was a skirmish that resulted in a minor Lancastrian victory prior to the battle of Wakefield.
     
  • In 1881, G Company of the 2nd Nottinghamshire Rifle Volunteers was here on Hill Street. Captain Edward H. NICHOLSON was Commandant; George F. LAYHE, sergeant-instructor.
     
  • In 1904, G Company of the 4th Nottinghamshire Rifle Volunteers was here on Potter Street. Captain E. TYLDEN-WRIGHT was Commandant; John ELLIOT, drill-instructor.
     
  • In 1904, C Squadron of the Sherwood Rangers was here. Major H. O. PEACOCK, commanding; Captain the Hon. G. V. A. MONCKTON ARUNDELL second in command; Squadron Serjeant-Major John HOADLEY, drill instructor.
     
  • In 1904, Captain Arthur F. CLIFFORD resided in Park Cottage.
     
  • John M. has a photograph of the Old Drill Hall on Shaw Street on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2014.
     
  • William Henry JOHNSON was awarded a Victoria Cross for bravery in France in World War One. He was wounded in France in 1918 while attacking a German machine gun nest. The brass plaque, which was attached to a stone in Worksop Memorial Park, was stolen on 20 January 2012. Sgt JOHNSON's Victoria Cross is displayed at the Sherwood Foresters Museum at Nottingham Castle. He served in the Home Guard during World War II, but had to withdraw because of poor health. He died on 23 April 1945 of natural causes.
     
  • A War Memorial was built in 1920 outside St. Anne's Church to honour the men of Worksop who fell in World War I.  It was dedicated on 7th March 1920.
     
  • Jonathan CLITHEROE has a photograph of a Memorial next to St. Anne's Church on Newcastle Avenue on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2016. The web page author is uncertain if this is a War Memorial or simply an ancient preaching cross, but it has all the characteristics of a War Memorial. Documentation tells me it was unveiled in 1920.
     
  • Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Worksop War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2007.
     
  • Christine JOHNSTONE has a different view of the Worksop War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2011.
     
  • David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of the Memorial Avenue Gardens on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2016. The gardens were created in 1937 in remembrance of the men of Worksop who died during WWI.
     
  • RAF Worksop, otherwise known as RAF Scofton, was a former Royal Air Force station located at Scofton, 2.8 miles (4.5 km) north east of Worksop. It opened in November, 1943 and spent most of its service history as a flight training centre. It is currently farmland.
     
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Military Records

There is a War Memorial in Worksop Priory. These are the names from the Nottinghamshire County Council War Memorial site. You can click on a name there to get more information about that individual:

  1. William Adlington
  2. Albert Adwick
  3. Frederick Albones
  4. Empson Alcock
  5. Edgar Laurence Allen
  6. Thomas Margison Allenson
  7. Bernard Hallam Allsop
  8. Thomas Hallam Allsop
  9. Alfred Archer
  10. Thomas Arkwright
  11. James Arthur Arnold
  12. Edward Arthur
  13. John Henry Askew
  14. George Arthur Bailey
  15. John William Baines
  16. Ernest Baker
  17. William Henry Barnett
  18. Edgar Bartholomew
  19. Harry Bartle
  20. Oliver George Bartrop
  21. Wilfred Bartrop
  22. Abraham Bates
  23. Horace Batty
  24. Richard Beal
  25. Thomas Beall
  26. Albert Beard
  27. Arthur Beldham
  28. Ernest Bell
  29. George William Bell
  30. Horace Bellamy
  31. Fred Benn
  32. Arthur Leonard Benn
  33. George Gordon Bennett
  34. William Bennett
  35. Frank Berry
  36. Frank Betteridge
  37. Frank Betteridge
  38. Harold Bettison
  39. Herbert Bevington
  40. Percy Cynberht Biffin
  41. William Bingham (on munument as "J E Bingham")
  42. John Earl Bingley
  43. George William Bird
  44. John Frederick Birkett
  45. Samuel Thomas Bloomer
  46. George Henry Blow
  47. Francis Edward Boland
  48. Thomas Bolton
  49. Frank Booth
  50. Walter Booth
  51. Wilfred Allan Bowns
  52. David Boyfield
  53. Richard Boyfield
  54. Ernest Lee Brailsford
  55. George Levick Brett
  56. Arthur Henry Brewster
  57. Alfred Ernest Bridgens
  58. Charles Briggs
  59. Leonard Briggs
  60. Harry Wistow Brooks
  61. Arthur Brooks
  62. William Brooks
  63. John Parker Broome
  64. Alfred Brown
  65. Wilfred Brown
  66. James Hilton Brownlow
  67. Richard Brunt
  68. Alfred Budrey
  69. Joseph Bunyan
  70. Albert Edward Burdett
  71. William Arthur Austin Burton
  72. Edgar William Calvert
  73. James Arthur Carnell
  74. Percy Wilfred Carpenter
  75. Walter James Carpenter
  76. Charles Caudwell
  77. George Charlesworth
  78. Frank Henry Clark
  79. George Morris Coe
  80. Horace Coe
  81. Norman Coe
  82. Alfred Ernest Collier
  83. Greenfield Cecil Coney
  84. Charles William Connell
  85. Percy Connell
  86. Fred Cooke
  87. Albert William Cooper
  88. George Cooper
  89. John Henry Cooper
  90. Murgatroyd Cooper
  91. James William Coupe
  92. Thomas Edward Creswick
  93. Fred Crossley
  94. Fred Curley
  95. Harold Charles Daffen
  96. Reginald Henry Davy (Davey on memorial)
  97. William T. Davison
  98. George Fred Dawson
  99. William Dawson
  100. Arthur Dennett
  101. Ernest Dewsnap
  102. Frederick Isaac Dexter
  103. Harry Dixon
  104. Oscar Brydon Dixon
  105. Matthew Drake
  106. William Batty Duckett
  107. Arthur Duckmanton
  108. John Duckmanton
  109. Thomas Duckmanton
  110. Walter Dukes
  111. John Lynn Eason
  112. Percy Arthur Eccleston
  113. William Alfred Eccleston
  114. Percy Edeson
  115. Ernest Albert Edwards
  116. John William Edwards
  117. Robert Henry Edwards
  118. Jim Ellis
  119. Fred Emson
  120. Henry George Exton
  121. James Henry Ferguson
  122. Sam Ferrand
  123. Charles Herbert Fitzjohn
  124. Hubert Francis Fitzwilliam Brabazon Foljambe
  125. George Edwin Foreman
  126. William Fores
  127. John Robert Forth
  128. Arthur Fotheringham
  129. Tom Foulds
  130. Thomas Tournay (Fourney on the memorial)
  131. John Henry Fox
  132. John William Franklin
  133. Victor Parker Freeman
  134. Edwin French
  135. Leonard French
  136. Thomas Gabbitas
  137. Rev. Charles Harold Garrett
  138. John Garside
  139. Fred Gascoigne
  140. Alfred William Gibson
  141. Harold Gladwin
  142. Edwin Godfrey
  143. George Godfrey
  144. John Horace Gollick
  145. Ernest Goodacre
  146. Herbert Goodacre
  147. Louis Goold
  148. Albert Grant
  149. Hubert Gray
  150. Richard Francis Gray
  151. Horace Greatorex
  152. David Hercules Green
  1. John Clifford Green
  2. Wilfred Green
  3. Frederick Haigh
  4. Walter Haigh
  5. Albert Hall
  6. Frank Hall
  7. George Egbert Hallam
  8. Walter Pemberton Hallam
  9. Edward Hammond
  10. Edward Hammond (appears to be the same name, different man?)
  11. Douglas Scott Hardcastle
  12. Rudolph Hargreaves
  13. Harry Harpham
  14. Harold Wannop Harrington
  15. J Harris
  16. John Harris
  17. James Harold Harrison
  18. Walter Gilbert Harrison
  19. Thomas Hartley
  20. William Alexander Haslam
  21. Walter Haslehurst
  22. George Samuel Heaps
  23. John Heaps
  24. Kenneth William Heaps
  25. Frederick Charles Heath
  26. Lewis Albert Heeds
  27. Albert William Hewitt
  28. Leonard Hewitt
  29. Harry Hibbard
  30. Tom Hibbard
  31. George Cecil Higham
  32. Thomas Highton
  33. Thomas Highton
  34. Henry Ellis Hodding
  35. James Hodgkinson
  36. Albert Hollis
  37. Frank Hollis
  38. Frank Hopkinson
  39. William Hurst
  40. Albert Edward Hutchinson
  41. John Ingham
  42. William Ellis Jackson
  43. John Walter James
  44. Willis Jarvis
  45. George Jeffrey
  46. Walter Jepson
  47. Ernest Jervis
  48. Samuel Jessop
  49. Arthur Johnson
  50. Ernest Johnson
  51. George Henry Johnson
  52. William Henry Johnson
  53. Sampson Arthur Jones
  54. Arthur Jordan
  55. Horace Keeton
  56. Joseph Keight
  57. Albert Kelk
  58. Fred Kelk
  59. Arthur William King
  60. Marmaduke Cecil Kirby
  61. Henry Ernest Kirk
  62. Harry Knowles
  63. Thomas Lane
  64. C. Laurie
  65. William Lawrence
  66. Herbert Lawrie
  67. Hugh Lawrie
  68. Ernest Layhe
  69. Charles William Layhe
  70. Sidney William Leckenby
  71. Alfred Roberts Ledger
  72. William Cook Lennon
  73. Charles Levick
  74. Dennis Lockwood
  75. Frederick William Lucas
  76. Walter Malkin
  77. John Henry Mallender
  78. William Stilwell Mallender
  79. George Percy Mann
  80. Leonard Marks
  81. William Marks
  82. Charles Frederick Marsden
  83. Fred Marsden
  84. William H. Marsden
  85. Charles Thomas Marshall
  86. John Marshall
  87. Robert Martin
  88. Harry Marvell
  89. Stanley Matthews
  90. Harold Mayne
  91. Joseph Ronald Herbert Mayor
  92. Alfred John Mellars
  93. Thomas Merrills
  94. Leonard Roy Milner
  95. George Moakes
  96. Arthur Bernard Mokes
  97. Charles Heaton Moore
  98. James Moore
  99. James Ernest Moore
  100. Tom Henry Moore
  101. William Gerald Moore
  102. Charles Alfred Naylor
  103. Dennis Leo Naylor
  104. Walter Ernest Newell
  105. William Jarvis Newton
  106. Albert Nixon
  107. George William Nixon
  108. John George Ord
  109. Wensley Scott Otter
  110. Lewis Walter James Page
  111. G Parker
  112. George Harold Parker
  113. Sydney Parkin
  114. Ernest Sidney Parrish
  115. William Holbery Pashley
  116. Charles Henry Pearce
  117. Barney Peatfield
  118. Edwin Joseph Peck
  119. Fred Pells
  120. Stephen Pells
  121. Harry Penney
  122. George Alfred Pennington
  123. William Perkins
  124. Albert Pettinger
  125. Bert Phillips
  126. Samuel William Pickering
  127. Maurice Pilgrim
  128. H Pincham
  129. Horace Gordon Pinchen
  130. Harry Pinchin
  131. Albert Pinkney
  132. Edgar Pogson
  133. Edward Powell
  134. Albert Edward Poynter
  135. George Lennox Miller Preston
  136. James Mills Preston
  137. Harry Pridmore
  138. Henry Pridmore
  139. Francis Green Procter
  140. James Radcliffe
  141. Luke Raynes
  142. John Read
  143. Charles Richard Redfearn
  144. Harry Redgate
  145. Leonard Kelsey Reeder
  146. George Samuel Revens
  147. Harry Revell
  148. George Leslie Richardson
  149. John Wilfred Richardson
  150. Wilfred Robbins
  151. George Henry Roberts
  152. William Soloman Roberts
  153. Francis William Robinson
  1. Fred Robinson
  2. Sydney Frank Robinson
  3. Herbert Roe
  4. George Henry Rose
  5. John Wyatt Rose
  6. Hector Franklin Rowland
  7. Daniel Holden Russon
  8. Thomas Salmon
  9. Thomas Sandbatch
  10. William Sanders
  11. William Sanders
  12. Salathiel Sanderson
  13. Rudolph Schmidt
  14. Charles Henry Schofield
  15. Henry Schupp
  16. Charles Edward Scorah
  17. Arthur Scott
  18. Frederick Scott
  19. William Scott
  20. Ernest Seston
  21. Thomas Richard Seymour
  22. Albert Shaw
  23. Wilfred Henry Shillito
  24. Frederick Gregory Sibson
  25. William Simpson
  26. Thomas Henry Simpson
  27. John Thomas Sims
  28. James Albert Slatter
  29. Fred Smith
  30. George Edward Smith
  31. Herbert Jennings Smith
  32. William Edward Smith
  33. William Henry Smith
  34. Frederick William Dare Sorby
  35. Samuel Spacey
  36. Robert James Spanswick
  37. A. E. Spencer
  38. Ernest Spencer
  39. William Spencer
  40. Alexander Sprowell
  41. Thomas Arthur Sprowell
  42. Albert Squires
  43. William Staniland
  44. Reginald Townend Stapley
  45. James Starkey
  46. William Starkey
  47. Ernest Charles Starsmore
  48. George Henry Stevenson
  49. Percy Stinson
  50. Arthur Stocks
  51. William Henry Stokes
  52. Thomas Storer
  53. Harold Septimus Storey
  54. James Stout
  55. Francis William (Frank) Straw
  56. Alexander Stringfellow
  57. Bernard Harry Stringfellow
  58. Harry Victor Stringfello
  59. George Harold Stubbins
  60. Herbert Ernest Swift
  61. Frederick Vivian Swinburn
  62. John William (Joe) Tarr
  63. Henry Tarry
  64. Arthur Farrand Tatlow
  65. Frank William Taylor
  66. Joseph Taylor
  67. Richard Taylor
  68. Tom Taylor
  69. William Stretton Tebbitt
  70. Thomas Edward Thompson
  71. William Thompson
  72. Harry Frank Thorpe
  73. Alfred Tomlinson
  74. James William Tomlinson
  75. Aylmer Erling Tomlinson
  76. Charles William Tongue
  77. George Henry Towell
  78. Francis Ernest Travis
  79. George Henry Trueman
  80. Horace Henry Turner
  81. William Turner
  82. Herbert Tyson
  83. Horace Underwood
  84. John Arthur Underwood
  85. Enoch Vernon
  86. Frank Court Vessey
  87. Thomas Arthur Vickers
  88. James Horace Wainscoat
  89. David Francis Wainwright
  90. Harold Waite
  91. William Walters
  92. Alfred Turner Warboys
  93. Herbert Ward
  94. Frederick John Ward
  95. Samuel Ward
  96. William Wareham
  97. George Lancelot Watkin
  98. Bernard Watkins
  99. Herbert Watkins
  100. Arthur Watkinson
  101. Luke Woodward Watkinson
  102. Basil John Webster
  103. Edward Webster
  104. George Frederick Webster
  105. John Webster
  106. John Webster
  107. William Webste
  108. Frederick Wedge
  109. Arthur Whall
  110. Edward Lionel Haversham Whall
  111. Albert Wharton
  112. Matthew White
  113. Bernard Renshaw White
  114. Ernest Whiten
  115. Walter Whiten
  116. Richard Whitlam
  117. Charles William Whitaker
  118. George Wilkinson
  119. Ronald Willcocks
  120. Benjamin Williams
  121. Robert Williams
  122. John Edward Bernard Willis
  123. Fred Wilson
  124. William Wilson
  125. Joseph Ernest Wistow
  126. Frank Wood
  127. William Wood
  128. Edwin Woodcock
  129. Samuel Woodcock
  130. Benjamin James Wool
  131. Lewis Worth
  132. Bernard Wright
  133. Edward Wright
  134. Henry Wright
  135. Albert Wynn

There is also a War Memorial outside St. Anne's Church. For the list of names on it, see the Nottinghamshire County Council site.

These are the names inscribed on the Worksop Cenotaph war memorial - eastern plaque - above.  These are men whose names were omitted when the town Cenotaph's lists were compiled in the early 1920s.  Names for the memorial were solicited from the townspeople, but some families had left town by then:

  1. Sydney APPLEBY
  2. Samuel BARLOW
  3. Leonard BATTY
  4. Percy Frederick George BAYES
  5. Edgar BEEDEN
  6. Ernest BELL
  7. Walter BELLAMY
  8. Joseph BENNETT
  9. James Ernest BRAMMAR
  10. Norman Henry BRIGHT
  11. Peter BURTON
  12. Henry Thorey CLARKE
  13. Wilfred CLARKE
  14. William COLE
  15. James COLLINS
  1. George Herbert CUMMINS
  2. Albert James DAVIS
  3. George DOWSON
  4. Edward DUNSTAN
  5. Samuel James ELLIOTT
  6. Ernest Henry FOLEY
  7. Ernest HALL
  8. Ethelbert Harris HARROP
  9. Tom HILL
  10. Charles Frederick JEBB
  11. Edward JEBB
  12. George Henry JOHNSON
  13. Matthew LEE
  14. Harold Bernard LEES
  15. Henry Francis LIGHTOLLER
  1. James McVEY
  2. Frank OUTLAW
  3. John James PALEY
  4. Edward Needham PARKIN
  5. George Charles SARGESON
  6. George SEAMAN
  7. Frederick Edward SHAWCROFT
  8. Joseph SLATER
  9. George SMITH
  10. George Harvey SMITH
  11. Ernest TUTTLE
  12. Francis Henry VINES
  13. Ernest WASS
  14. Luke Woodward WALKINSON
  15. Arthur WHALEY 
  • Hilda SIMMS of Worksop is included in a group photo of the WW2 Women's Land Army.
     
  • Lieut. Commander John Lee MACHIN, Royal Navy, was killed in action on 24 May 1941 while serving on HMS Hood. He was born in Worksop, NTT, in 1902. His estate was probated in Nottingham, NTT, in May 1942.
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Names, Geographical

Wikipedia tells us that: Worksop was part of what was called Bernetseatte (burnt lands) in Anglo-Saxon times.

In the 1086 Domesday Book "Worksop" appears as "Werchesope". The name derives from a personal name 'We(o)rc' plus the Anglo-Saxon placename element 'hop' (valley).

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Names, Personal

Actor Donald Henry PLEASENCE OBE was born in Worksop on 5 October 1919, the son of Alice (née ARMITAGE) and Thomas Stanley PLEASENCE. He was raised in Grimoldby, Lincs. He played RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape (1963), the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967). On 31 August 1944, PLEASENCE was flying in an RAF Lancaster Bomber that was shot down. He was captured and held in Stalag Luft I until the war's end. On 2 February 1995, PLEASENCE died at age 75 in France.

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Newspapers

  • The town had an older newspaper, "Worksop Today", that has merged into the Worksop Guardian newspaper.
     
  • You can find local news, obituaries and even nostalgia pieces in the Worksop Guardian.
     
  • Jane TAYLOR in Redcar provides this notice from the Derby Mercury of 24 February 1803: "MARRIED: On Monday last at Worksop, Nottinghamshire, Mr. John WEATHERHEAD, of this town (Derby), ironmonger, to Miss PARKER, of the former place."
     
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Periodicals

Worksop Life is a magazine about activities and events in Worksop.

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Politics & Government

  • This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county, and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
     
  • The parish was in the Hatfield division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
     
  • In 1894 the town formed an Urban District Council.
     
  • There is no local town council. Town civic and political affairs are the venue of the District Council.
     
  • District governance is provided by the Bassetlaw District Council.
     
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

  • Bastardy cases would be heard in the Worksop petty session hearings. These were held every other Wednesday at Noon at the police station on Potter Street.
     
  • After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became the heart of the Worksop Poor Law Union.
     
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Population

 YearInhabitants
18013,263
18214,567
18416,197
18517,215
187110,409
188111,625
189112,734
190116,112
191120,387
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Schools

  • A Catholic School was built on Park Street, not far from the Catholic Chapel, in 1840. In 1881, Miss Margaret ENGLAND was the schoolmistress.
     
  • In 1881 there was a National School for boys on Potter Street. William Henry JALLAND was the schoolmaster.
     
  • In 1881 there was a National School for girls on Prior's Walk Road. Miss Emma DAWBER was the schoolmistress.
     
  • In 1881 the "Rectory" was an Infant School on Potter Street. Miss Harriet BUTLER was the schoolmistress.
     
  • In 1881 St. John's Boys School was on Dock Road. Anthony COOK was the schoolmaster.
     
  • Nathaniel WOODARD founded St Cuthbert's College in 1890. St Cuthbert's College is now Worksop College, located just south of Worksop. Their website is: Worksop College where there are links to the history re the Woodard Trust. The College is paried with Ranby House to offer education from age 5 thru age 18.