Mansfield

Sister cities

• Mansfield
• Reutov
• Heiligenhaus
• Stryi

History

Settlement dates to Roman Britain times between AD 43 to AD 410. Hayman Rooke in 1787 discovered two Roman villas between Mansfield Woodhouse and Pleasley; a cache of denarii (300-400 Roman Silver Coins were found near King's Mill in 1849). A Roman tessellated pavement was found in one of the villas near Mansfield Woodhouse. In AD 868, the Danes came into the county and they had complete control over the county by AD 877 Their occupation left names on the town, such as Skerry Hill, Ratcliffe Gate and Carr Bank. The Royal Manor of Mansfield was held by the King. In 1042, Edward the Confessor possessed a manor in Mansfield. During the Norman Conquest in 1066, William the Conqueror made Sherwood Forest a royal forest for hunting. The town was recorded as being Mammesfeld in the Wapentake of Broxtowe and the land of William the Conqueror in the Domesday Book of 1086. William owned two carucates, five sochmans and thirty-five villains; twenty borders, with nineteen carucates and a half in demesne, a mill, piscary, twenty-four acres of meadow and pasture' in Mansfield. In the time of Henry II of England, the King visited what is now known as Kings Mill, staying at the home of Sir John Cockle for a night having been hunting in Sherwood Forest; Cockle was later known as the Miller of Mansfield. In 1199, the Manor was owned by King John; he used to visit Mansfield frequently between 1200 and 1216, and built a residence here. Later, Edward I held a royal council in the town. The manor, then owned by Henry III, subsequently passed to Henry de Hastings. In 1329, Queen Isabella, mother of Edward III, was the lady of the manor of Mansfield. Mansfield, Skegby and Sutton in Ashfield were the land of the king in 1086 as stated in the Domesday Book. There are remains of the…

Geography

Mansfield has an average elevation of , with elements elevated at . The town lies on the River Maun. The town is from Chesterfield, from Nottingham, from Derby and from Sheffield. Mansfield has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb), with a narrow temperature range, an even spread of rainfall, low levels of sunshine and often breezy conditions throughout the year. The closest weather-station records for Mansfield come from Warsop in Meden Vale, to the north. The absolute maximum temperature record for the area stands at , recorded in August 1990. In a typical year, the warmest day should reach and 12.72 days should reach or higher. The absolute minimum temperature record for the area is , recorded in January 1987. There is air frost on an average of 59 nights a year. Rainfall averages a year, with 113 days reporting in excess of of rain (observation period 1971–2000). The weather station is based at Warsop, 7 miles from Mansfield town centre.