History

Worksop was founded around Anglo-Saxon times, and existed for an extended period as a market town. A building of the Chesterfield Canal in 1777, and a subsequent construction of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1849, both of which passed through the cash settlement, led to the degree of incubation. Discovery of sizable coal seams further increased interest in the area.

Miscellaneous

Worksop is referred to as a "Gateway to the Dukeries", so known as for the total of ducal residences in the area. Clumber Park is a large such park, at present open to the public.

A town was a setting for the children's television show, Maid Marian and her Merry Men, where it was depicted largely as a mass of mud.

Worksop is in which Oxo is manufactured by Campbell Soup UK, which it bought from Unilever in May 2001.

A 5-mile £11.3m A57 Worksop Southern Bypass opened in Can 1986

Around recent years Worksop hwhen been recognised as with the good doses condition typically attributed to the closure of Manton colliery in 1994 as part of the sweeping closure of mines in the early 1990's by the privatised coal companies during the government of John Major. A recently member of parliament for Bassetlaw, John Mann, hwhen fought a high-profile campaign to tackle a condition, described as existence like to the levels seen around inner cities. The televisiin docudrama shown on ITV1 in 2004 highlighted a issue, & the local Worksop Guardian newspaper [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1258956,00.html] has played a role in a issue, though the condition remains.

Worksop was a birth place of: Donald Pleasance, actor Lee Westwood, golfer Bruce Dickinson, singer in the heavy metal band Iron Maiden Graham Taylor, football manager