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

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.
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.
- 01Worksop 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 - 02Worksop 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 - 03Church 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 - 04St 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 - 05Steetley 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 - 06Harley 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 - 07Worksop 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 - 08St. 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 - 09St 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 - 10St 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
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Worksop Priory
- 02Clumber Park
S80 3AZ, clumberpark@nationaltrust.org.uk.
- 03Mr 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.
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.
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 → Worksop39 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £4–5
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Worksop62 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £7–9
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Worksop76 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £9–11
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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.
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If you know how people move in Worksop – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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