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Worksop

Worksop is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England.

Worksop
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The place

Worksop is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England. Located close to Nottinghamshire's borders with South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, it is on the River Ryton and not far from the northern edge of Sherwood Forest. The population of the town was recorded at 44,733 in the 2021 Census. To the south of Worksop is the area of the Dukeries.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Worksop

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Worksop Manor

    Worksop Manor is a Grade I listed country house situated in Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, England, within the area of the four contiguous ducal estates historically known as the Dukeries. The present building, constructed in ashlar stone with hipped slate roofs and forming a quadrangle approximately 25 bays wide by 14 bays deep, represents the surviving remnant of what was once one of the most ambitious country house projects ever conceived in England.

    1.7 km · building in Britain · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Worksop Priory

    Worksop Priory is a Church of England parish church and former priory in the town of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, part of the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham and under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Beverley. The church is Grade I listed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as a building of outstanding architectural or historic interest.

    600 m · church in Bassetlaw, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints' Church, Steetley is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Whitwell, Derbyshire.

    4.1 km · church in Bolsover, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St John the Evangelist's Church, Carlton in Lindrick

    St John the Evangelist's Church is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Carlton in Lindrick, Nottinghamshire.

    5 km · church in Bassetlaw, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Steetley Company Ground

    Steetley Company Ground is a cricket ground in Shireoaks, Nottinghamshire, England. The ground was laid out in 1951 and the first important match on the ground was in 1955, when the Nottinghamshire Second XI played the Yorkshire Second XI. The ground has played host to both Nottinghamshire Second XI and Derbyshire Second XI matches in the Second XI Championship and Second XI Trophy.

    3.8 km · Cricket ground in Shireoaks. Nottinghamshire · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Harley Gallery and Foundation

    The Harley Gallery and Foundation is an educational charity situated on the ducal estate of Welbeck Abbey in North Nottinghamshire.

    5.8 km · art museum in the UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Worksop War Memorial

    Worksop War Memorial is a 20th-century grade II* listed war memorial in Worksop, Nottinghamshire.

    300 m · war memorial in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St. John's Church, Worksop

    St. John's Church, Worksop is the parish church of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England.

    600 m · grade II listed church in Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Luke's Church, Shireoaks

    St Luke's Church, Shireoaks is a Grade II listed Church of England parish church in Shireoaks, Nottinghamshire.

    3.7 km · church in Shireoaks, Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Mary's Church, Worksop

    St Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England. It was built from 1838 to 1840 by Weightman and Hadfield in the Gothic Revival style.

    600 m · Catholic church building in Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Worksop Priory
  2. 02
    Clumber Park

    S80 3AZ, clumberpark@nationaltrust.org.uk.

  3. 03
    Mr Straw's House

    5-7 Blyth Grove, S81 0JG, mrstrawshouse@nationaltrust.org.uk.

From Wikivoyage: Worksop, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

There is a greasy spoon and two Subways. You can also go to one of the two Gregg's bakeries on the same street.

From Wikivoyage: Worksop, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Worksop

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 54 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 72 km · Manchester (MAN), 77 km
Stations
Worksop railway station, 800 m · Whitwell railway station, 5.7 km · Netherthorpe Airfield, 5 km · Shireoaks railway station, 3.7 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Worksop
    39 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £4–5
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Worksop
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £7–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Worksop
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £9–11
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Worksop

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Worksop. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    291 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    338 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    362 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    396 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    406 km

If you know how people move in Worksop – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Worksop

Worksop is 24 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Woodsettsvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK5.8 km
  • Shireoaksvillage in Nottinghamshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Wallingwellshamlet and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, UK5.2 km
  • Rhodesiavillage and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, UK2.3 km
  • Welbeckvillage in Nottinghamshire, England, UK5.6 km
  • Hodthorpe and Belphcivil parish in Bolsover, Derbyshire, England5.2 km