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{{Short description|Market town in Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, England}}
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{{Use British English|date=August 2013}}
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| official_name = Worksop
| type = [[Town]]
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| population = 44,733
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| shire_district = [[Bassetlaw District|Bassetlaw]]
| shire_county = [[Nottinghamshire]]
| parts_type = Areas of the town
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| p2 = Darfoulds
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| p4 = High Hoe Road
| p5 = [[Kilton, Nottinghamshire|Kilton]]
| p6 = [[Manton, Nottinghamshire|Manton]]
| p7 = [[Rhodesia, Nottinghamshire|Rhodesia]]
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'''Worksop''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|w|ɜːr|k|s|ɒ|p}} {{respell|WURK|sop}}) 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Worksop, United Kingdom – statistics 2023 |url=https://zhujiworld.com/gb/1424814-worksop/ |website=zhujiworld.com |access-date=25 January 2023}}</ref> To the south of Worksop is the area of [[the Dukeries]].

==History==

===Etymology===
Worksop was part of what was called Bernetseatte (burnt lands) in Anglo-Saxon times.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/researchframeworks/eastmidlands/attach/County-assessments/NotAngloSaxon.pdf |title=Anglo Saxon Nottinghamshire |work=Archaeology Data Service}}</ref> The name Worksop is likely of [[Old English]] origin, deriving from a personal name "We(o)rc" plus the placename element "hop" (valley). The first element is interesting because while the masculine name Weorc is unrecorded, the feminine name Werca (Verca) is found in [[Bede]]'s ''Life of St Cuthbert''. A number of other recorded place names contain this same personal name element.<ref>The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire Their Origin and Development, Heinrich Mutschmann, Cambridge, 1913</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nottsheritagegateway.org.uk/places/worksop.htm |title=Worksop|author=Andrew Nicolson|work=Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Nottinghamshire/Worksop|title=Key to English Place-names|website=kepn.nottingham.ac.uk}}</ref>

===Anglo-Norman Times===
In the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, Worksop appears as ''Werchesope''. Thoroton<ref>Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 3, Republished with Large Additions by John Throsby, Nottingham, 1796</ref> states that the Domesday Book records that before the [[Norman Conquest]], Werchesope (Worksop) had belonged to Elsi, son of Caschin, who had "two manors in Werchesope, which paid to the geld as three car". After the conquest, Worksop became part of the extensive lands granted to [[Roger de Busli]]. At this time, the land "had one car. in demesne, and twenty-two sochm. on twelve bovats of this land, and twenty-four villains, and eight bord. having twenty-two car. and eight acres of meadow, pasture wood two leu. long, three quar. broad." This was valued at three pounds in [[Edward the Confessor]]'s time and seven pounds in the Domesday Book. Roger administered this estate from his headquarters in [[Tickhill]].

The manor then passed to [[William de Lovetot]], who established a [[castle]] and endowed the [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] [[Worksop Priory]] around 1103. After William's death, the manor was passed to his eldest son, Richard de Lovetot, who was visited by [[Stephen of England|King Stephen]], at Worksop, in 1161.<ref>Worksop the Dukery and Sherwood Forest, Robert White, 1875</ref> In 1258, a surviving ''inspeximus'' charter confirms Matilda de Lovetot's grant of the manor of Worksop to William de Furnival (her son).

===Medieval and early modern history===
A skirmish occurred in the area during the [[Wars of the Roses]] on 16 December 1460, commonly known as the [[Battle of Worksop]].

In 1530, Worksop was visited by Cardinal [[Thomas Wolsey]], who was on his way to [[Cawood]], in Yorkshire. "Then my lord [Wolsey] intending the next day to remove from thence [Newstead Abbey] there resorted to him the Earl of Shrewsbury's keeper, and gentlemen, sent from him, to desire my lord, in their maister's behalf, to hunt in a parke of their maister's, called Worsoppe Parke." (Cavendish's ''Life of Wolsey'')

A surviving (Cotton) manuscript written by [[Henry VIII]] nominated Worksop as one of three places in Nottinghamshire (along with Welbeck and Thurgarton) to become "[[bishopric]]s to be new made", but nothing was to come of this (White 1875), and the priory later became a victim of the [[dissolution of the monasteries]] – being closed in 1539, with its prior and 15 monks pensioned off. All the priory buildings, except the nave and west towers of the church, were demolished at this time and the stone reused elsewhere.

In 1540, [[John Leland (antiquary)|John Leland]] noted that Worksop castle had all but disappeared, saying it was: "clene down and scant knowen wher it was". Leland noted that at that time Worksop was "a praty market of 2 streates and metely well buildid."

[[Worksop Manor]] became a prison for [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] in 1568. In 1580s the new house was built on the same site for [[George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury]]. He was the husband of Elizabeth Talbot, [[Bess of Hardwick]].

In the [[hearth tax]] records of 1674, Worksop is said to have had 176 households, which made it the fourth-largest settlement in Nottinghamshire after Nottingham (967 households), Newark (339), and Mansfield (318). At this time, the population is estimated to have been around 748 people.

===Modern history===
[[File:Worksop - houses on north side of Potter Street - geograph.org.uk - 3287287.jpg|thumb|Potter Street]]
By 1743, 358 families were in Worksop, with a population around 1,500. This had risen by 1801 to 3,391, and by the end of the 19th century had reached 16,455.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, Worksop benefitted from the building of the [[Chesterfield Canal]], which passed through the town in 1777, and the subsequent construction of the [[Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway]] in 1849. This led to growth that was further boosted by the discovery of [[coal]] seams beneath the town.
[[File:Worksop Manor- aerial 2017 (2) - geograph 5542991.jpg|thumb|right|Worksop Manor]]
Worksop and area surrounding are known as the "Gateway to the Dukeries" due to the former ducal seats of Clumber House, [[Thoresby Hall]], [[Welbeck Abbey]], and [[Worksop Manor]] either owned by the Dukes of Newcastle, Portland and Kingston.<ref>Bassetlaw District Council, History of Worksop, 2019 retrieved on 1 April 2023</ref>

==Economy==
===Current economy===
The local economy in Worksop is dominated by service industries, manufacturing and distribution. Unemployment levels in the area are now lower than the national average, owing to large number of distribution and local manufacturing companies; these include Premier Foods, RDS Transport, [[Pandrol]] and Laing O'Rourke.
[[File:Bridge Street, Worksop, Notts. - geograph.org.uk - 5110948.jpg|thumb|Bridge Street, Worksop]]
Major employers in the area include [[Premier Foods]] ([[Worksop Factory]]), [[Greencore]], RDS Transport (the Flying Fridge), [[B&Q]], MAKE polymers,<ref>{{cite web |title=Site confirmed for MBA Polymers' UK plant |url=http://www.recyclinginternational.com/recycling-news/3396/plastic-and-rubber/united-states-united-kingdom/site-confirmed-mba-polymers-039-uk-plant |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611211026/http://www.recyclinginternational.com/recycling-news/3396/plastic-and-rubber/united-states-united-kingdom/site-confirmed-mba-polymers-039-uk-plant |archive-date=11 June 2016 |access-date=12 April 2014 |publisher=Recycling International}}</ref> OCG Cacao, part of [[Cargill]], Pandrol and the [[National Health Service]] ([[Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust|Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Trust]]).

===Agricultural and forestry===
John Harrison's survey of Worksop for the Earl of Arundel reveals that at that time, most people earned their living from the land. A tenant farmer, Henry Cole, farmed 200 acres of land, grazing his sheep on "Manton sheepwalk". This survey also described a corn-grinding water mill (Bracebridge mill) and Manor Mill situated near to Castle Hill, with a kiln and a malthouse.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/worksop-priory/hhistory.php|title=Worksop Priory - History|website=southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk}}</ref>

One unusual crop associated with Worksop is [[liquorice]]. This was originally grown in the priory gardens for medicinal purposes but continued until around 1750. [[William Camden]] records in ''Britannia'' that the town was famous for growing liquorice. [[John Speed]] noted: "In the west, near Worksop, groweth plenty of Liquorice, very delicious and good". White says the liquorice gardens were "principally situated on the eastern margin of the park, near the present 'Slack Walk'." He notes that the last plant was dug up about "fifty years ago" and that this last garden had been planted by "the person after whom the 'Brompton stock' is named." A pub in Worksop is now named after this former industry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/pubs/the-liquorice-gardens-worksop|title=The Liquorice Gardens|website=J D Wetherspoon}}</ref>

Additionally, with much of the area being heavily forested, timber was always an important industry, supplying railway sleepers to the [[North Midland Railway]], timber for the construction of railway carriages, and packing cases for the [[Sheffield]] cutlery industry. The town also became notable for the manufacture of Worksop [[Windsor chair]]s. Timber firms in the town included Benjamin Garside's woodyard and Godley and Goulding, situated between Eastgate and the railway.<ref>Stroud, G. (2002) Nottinghamshire Extensive Urban Survey, Worksop. English Heritage</ref>

===Brewing and malting===
The [[malt]]ing trade began in [[Retford]], but gradually moved to Worksop, where it became an important trade, though it never employed many people. In 1852, Clinton malt kilns were built. Worksop has a strong tradition of brewing, including being the site of the historic Worksop and Retford Brewery. This brewery had previously been known as Garside and Alderson and Prior Well Brewery.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}

The brewing tradition is continued by a number of local independent breweries in and around the town, including [[Welbeck Abbey Brewery]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/inside-historic-nottinghamshire-estate-brewery-3672038 |title=Inside the historic Nottinghamshire estate... |work=Nottinghamshire Post |date=1 January 2020 |first=Gurjeet |last=Nanrah |access-date=6 March 2021}}</ref>

===Former mining===
At the start of the 19th century, Worksop had a largely agricultural economy with malting, corn milling, and timber working being principal industries. However, 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.

The first coal mine was [[Shireoaks Colliery]], which by 1861 employed over 200 men, which rose to 600 men by 1871. [[Steetley Colliery]] started producing coal in 1876, and in Worksop a mine was developed on land to the south-east, owned by [[Henry Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle]]. This mine was fully operational in around 1907, with three shafts, and was named [[Manton Colliery]].

The closure in the 1990s of the pits, compounding the earlier decline of the timber trade and other local industry, resulted in high unemployment in parts of the Worksop area, as well as other social problems.<ref>{{cite web |title=George Osborne wreaks havoc...just like Margaret Thatcher in 1980s |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/george-osborne-wreaks-havoc--256105 |last=Boniface |first=Susie |author-link=Susie Boniface |date=24 October 2010 |work=The Mirror}}</ref>

===Textiles===
In John Harrison's survey of Worksop for the Earl of Arundel, a dye house and a tenter green (where lengths of cloth were stretched out to dry) indicates a small cloth industry was present in Worksop. Late attempts during the [[Industrial Revolution]] to introduce textile manufacturing saw two mills constructed, one at Bridge Place and the other somewhere near Mansfield Road. Both enterprises failed and closed within three years. They were converted to milling corn.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}

==Transport==
===Waterways===
[[File:Chesterfield Canal - Approaching Shireoaks Bottom Lock No 44 - geograph.org.uk - 768506.jpg|thumb|Chesterfield canal, near Worksop]]
Worksop is connected to the [[Waterways in the United Kingdom|UK inland waterways]] network by the [[Chesterfield Canal]]. It was built to export coal, limestone and lead from Derbyshire; iron from Chesterfield; and corn, deals, timber, groceries and general merchandise into Derbyshire. Today, the canal is used for leisure purposes together with the adjacent [[Sandhill Lake]].<ref name="greeninf">{{cite web |title=Worksop Central Green Infrastructure Strategy |url=https://www.bassetlaw.gov.uk/media/6704/dpd-001-worksop-central-green-infrastructure-strategy-december-2021.pdf |publisher=Bassetlaw District Council |access-date=2 January 2023 |pages=27, 36 |date=December 2021}}</ref>

===Railway===
{{Main|Worksop railway station}}
[[File: Worksop railway station MMB 07.jpg|thumb|Worksop station]]
Worksop lies on the [[Sheffield-Lincoln line]] and the [[Robin Hood line]]. [[Northern (train operating company)|Northern]] services run between [[Sheffield station|Sheffield]], [[Lincoln railway station|Lincoln]] and [[Leeds railway station|Leeds]];<ref>{{Cite web |title=Timetables and engineering information for travel with Northern |work=Northern Railway |date=May 2023 |access-date=15 July 2023 |url= https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/travel/timetables }}</ref> [[East Midlands Railway]] services from [[Nottingham railway station|Nottingham]], via [[Mansfield railway station, Nottinghamshire|Mansfield]], terminate at the station.<ref>{{Cite web |work=East Midlands Railway |title=Timetables |date=May 2023 |access-date=15 July 2023 |url= https://www.eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk/timetables }}</ref>

===Roads===
Worksop lies on the [[A57 road|A57]] and [[A60 road|A60]], with links to the [[A1 road (Great Britain)|A1]] and [[M1 motorway|M1]]. The A57 Worksop bypass was opened on Thursday 1 May 1986, by junior transport minister [[Michael Spicer (politician)|Michael Spicer]] and the Chairman of Bassetlaw council. The bypass had been due to open in October 1986 and was built by [[A.F. Budge]] of Retford;<ref>''Retford Times'' Thursday 1 May 1986, page 18</ref> as part of the contract, a small part of the A60, Turner Road, was opened on Monday 29 September 1986, three months early.<ref>''Retford Times'' Thursday 2 October 1986, page 1</ref>

===Cycling===
[[National Cycle Route 6]], a waymarked route between [[London]] and the [[Lake District]], passes through the town.<ref name="greeninf" />

===Buses===
[[Stagecoach East Midlands]] operates bus services in and around the town, with destinations including [[Doncaster]], [[Rotherham]], [[Chesterfield, Derbyshire|Chesterfield]] and [[Nottingham]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stops in Worksop |work=Bus Times |date=2023 |access-date=15 July 2023 |url= https://bustimes.org/localities/worksop }}</ref>

==Education==
===Primary===
{{Col-begin}}
{{col-2}}
*Gateford Park Primary School
*Haggonfields Primary and Nursery School
*Holy Family Catholic Primary School
*Norbridge Academy
*Kingston Park Academy
*Langold Dyscarr Community School
*Prospect Hill Infant and Nursery School
*Prospect Hill Junior School
*Ramsden Primary School
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*Redlands Primary and Nursery School
*Sparken Hill Academy 
*Sir Edmund Hillary Academy
*The St Augustine's Academy
*St Anne's C of E Voluntary Aided Primary School
*St John's C of E Academy 
*St Luke's C of E Aided Primary School
*Worksop Priory C of E Primary Academy
*The Primary School of St Mary and St Martin
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{{col-end}}

===Secondary===
* [[Outwood Academy Portland]]
* [[Outwood Academy Valley]]
* [[Worksop College]]

===Further education===
* [[North Nottinghamshire College]]
* Outwood Post-16 centre

==Healthcare==
Worksop is served by [[Bassetlaw District General Hospital]], part of the [[Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust|Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust]]. Bassetlaw Hospital treats about 33,000 people each year, and roughly 38,000 emergencies. Bassetlaw Hospital is a [[teaching hospital]] for the [[University of Sheffield]] and [[Sheffield Medical School]].

Mental health services in Worksop are provided by [[Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust]], which provide local community services. In-patient services are provided in [[Mansfield]] and Nottingham.

==Religion==
Worksop has three churches, all of which are on the [[National Heritage List for England]].

{{main|Worksop Priory}}
[[File:Worksop Priory Interior.jpg|thumb|Worksop Priory Interior]]
Officially titled the Priory Church of Saint Mary and Saint Cuthbert, the [[Anglican]] parish church is usually known as Worksop Priory. It was an [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] [[priory]] founded in 1103. The church has a nave and detached gatehouse. Monks at the priory made the [[Tickhill Psalter]], an illuminated manuscript of the medieval period, now held in [[New York Public Library]]. After the [[dissolution of the monasteries]], the east end of the church fell into disrepair, but the townspeople were granted the nave as a parish church. The eastern parts of the building have been restored in several phases, the most recent being in the 1970s when architect Lawrence King rebuilt the crossing.

{{see also|St Anne's Church, Worksop}}
[[image:St Anne's Church, Worksop - geograph.org.uk - 6992681.jpg|thumb|St Anne's Church]]
St. Anne's Church is an Anglican [[parish church]] and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade-II [[Listed building#England and Wales|listed building]].<ref>{{NHLE |num= 1045754 |desc= Church of St Anne, Worksop |access-date=30 August 2012 |mode=cs2 |postscript=none}}</ref> The church was built in 1911 by the [[Lancaster, Lancashire|Lancaster]] architects [[Austin and Paley]].{{sfn|Pevsner|1979|p=389}}{{sfn |Brandwood |Austin |Hughes |Price |2012 |p=248}} The church has an historic pipe organ originally built by [[Gray and Davison]] in 1852 for the [[congregational church]] in [[Clapham]].

{{see also|St John's Church, Worksop}}
St. John's Church is a parish church built between 1867 and 1868 by architect [[Robert Clarke (architect)|Robert Clarke]].

[[St Mary's Church, Worksop|St Mary's]] is a [[Roman Catholic]] church, built from 1838 to 1840 and paid for by the [[Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk]], after the sale of [[Worksop Manor]], which the duke owned. The church was designed by [[Matthew Ellison Hadfield]] and it is a Grade II-listed building. In late 1913, the church was visited by [[Archduke Franz Ferdinand]] seven months before [[assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand|his assassination in Sarajevo]].<ref name=stock>[[Historic England]], [https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/worksop-st-mary/ Worksop – St Mary], ''Taking Stock'', retrieved 5 May 2022</ref>

Relatively few religious minorities live in the town, with the largest non-Christian community being Worksop's 243 Muslims.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Worksop |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastmidlands/nottinghamshire/E35001286__worksop/}}</ref> A small community and prayer centre for adherents is on Watson Road.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/news/muslim-prayer-centre-to-open-in-worksop-2138150|title=Muslim prayer centre to open in Worksop|date=12 August 2016|website=Worksop Guardian}}</ref>

==Media==
The town receives local news and television programmes from the [[BBC Yorkshire]] and [[ITV Yorkshire]] regions. Local radio stations are [[BBC Radio Sheffield]] on 104.1 FM, [[Greatest Hits Radio South Yorkshire]] on 107.9 FM, and Trust AM, an online hospital radio station serving the [[Bassetlaw District General Hospital]] in the town. The local newspapers are the ''Worksop Guardian'' and ''Worksop Trader''.

==Places of interest==
[[Clumber Park]], located south of Worksop, is a country park, also owned by the National Trust. It has 3,800 acres of parkland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Clumber Park |work=National Trust |date=2023 |access-date=16 July 2023 |url=https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/nottinghamshire-lincolnshire/clumber-park }}</ref>

[[Worksop Town Hall]] was originally established as a corn exchange, designed by [[Isaac Charles Gilbert]] and opened in 1851.<ref>{{NHLE|num= 1045762 |desc=Worksop Town Hall |access-date=2 April 2021}}</ref>

The [[Worksop War Memorial]] is a large Grade II* listed [[cenotaph]] dedicated to the memory of local residents that died during [[World War I]] and [[World War II|II]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Worksop – Cenotaph (Memorial Avenue) |url=https://secure.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/RollOfHonour/WarMemorials/Details/304 |access-date=2023-10-16 |website=secure.nottinghamshire.gov.uk}}</ref>

[[Chesterfield Canal]] passes through Worksop and is used for activities.<ref>author= not stated. (2025). The Chesterfield Canal is one of the most beautiful and varied waterways in England. It runs for 46 miles from the River Trent to the middle of Chesterfield, linking Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire and Derbyshire. https://chesterfield-canal-trust.org.uk/ , Chesterfield Canal Trust, access-date 2025/06/02</ref>
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File:Mr Straws House.jpg|[[Mr Straw's House]], the family home of the Straw family, was inherited by the Straw brothers, William and Walter, when their parents died in the 1930s. The house remained unaltered until the [[National Trust]] acquired it in the 1990s and opened it to the public.<ref>[http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-mrstrawshouse.htm Mr Straw's House] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060508142339/http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-mrstrawshouse.htm |date=8 May 2006 }} by the National Trust, accessed 28 May 2006.</ref>
File:Limetree Avenue, Clumber Park - geograph.org.uk - 1052852.jpg|Clumber Park
File:Town Hall, Worksop - geograph.org.uk - 4372192.jpg|Worksop Town Hall
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==Notable people==
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*[[A'Whora]] (real name George Boyle, b. 1996), drag queen, fashion designer and TV personality, known from ''[[RuPaul's Drag Race UK]].''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Worksop fashion designer set to dazzle in BBC's RuPaul's Drag Race UK|url=https://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/news/people/worksop-fashion-designer-set-dazzle-bbcs-rupauls-drag-race-uk-3090322|access-date=2021-04-07|website=worksopguardian.co.uk}}</ref>
*[[James Walsham Baldock]] (1822–1898), artist, adopted by his grandfather who was a farmer at Worksop<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.avictorian.com/Baldock_James_Walsham.html|title=James Walsham Baldock|website=avictorian.com|access-date=2019-01-14}}</ref>
*[[Maurice Bembridge]] (b.1945), golfer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nationalclubgolfer.com/news/maurice-bembridge-augusta-back-nine-30/ |title=Recalling one of the most fascinating two hours in Masters history |publisher=National Club Golfer |first=Mark |last=Townsend |date=22 March 2018}}</ref>
*[[George A. Best]], former goalkeeper with [[Blackpool F.C.]]
*[[Basil Boothroyd]] (1910–1988), humorous writer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0095848/bio |title=Basil Boothroyd |publisher=IMDb}}</ref>
*[[Bruce Dickinson]] (b.1958), singer with [[Iron Maiden]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/worksop-born-bruce-bringing-iron-maiden-close-home-2093548 |title=Worksop-born Bruce bringing Iron Maiden close to home |work=Worksop Guardian |date=3 May 2017}}</ref>
*[[Craig Disley]] (b.1981), footballer
*[[Mark Foster (golfer)|Mark Foster]] (b.1975), golfer
*[[Anne Foy]] (b.1986), former BBC Children's TV presenter<ref>{{cite web |url=http://annefoy.co.uk |title=Official site |publisher=Concorde International Artistes |accessdate=16 March 2021 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070915103718/http://www.annefoy.co.uk/ |archive-date=15 September 2007}}</ref>
*[[Alexina Graham]] (b.1990), model and [[Victoria's Secret]] Angel
*[[Gwen Grant]] (b.1940), writer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/county_lit_spring_2003.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306013900/http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/county_lit_spring_2003.pdf |archive-date=6 March 2012 |page=8 |title=Nottinghamshire County Council Literature Newsletter|accessdate=17 December 2010|publisher=Nottinghamshire County Council}}</ref>
*[[Henry Haslam (footballer)|Henry Haslam]] (1879–1942), footballer and Olympic gold medalist at the [[1900 Summer Olympics|1900 Olympics]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/25231 |title=Biographical information |publisher=olympedia.org |access-date=16 March 2021}}</ref>
*[[Sarah-Jane Honeywell]] (b.1974), BBC Children's TV presenter<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/clean-16-years-doncaster-tv-stars-birthday-drink-and-drugs-confession-over-extreme-partying-past-50840 |title=Clean for 16 years |work=Doncaster Free Press |date=5 January 2018}}</ref>
*[[William Henry Johnson (VC)|William Henry Johnson]] (1890–1945), recipient of a [[Victoria Cross]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vconline.org.uk/william-h-johnson-vc/4587207302 |title=William Henry Johnson VC |publisher=VC Online |access-date=16 March 2021}}</ref>
*[[Mick Jones (footballer, born 1945)|Mick Jones]] (b.1945), [[Sheffield United F.C.|Sheffield United]] and [[Leeds United F.C.|Leeds United]] striker during the 1960s and 1970s
*[[Sam Osborne (racing driver)|Sam Osborne]] (b.1993), racing driver
*[[Liam Palmer]] (b.1991), Sheffield Wednesday Football Player
*[[John Parr]] (b.1954), musician<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.concertarchives.org/bands/john-parr/photos |title=John Parr Concert Photos |publisher=Concert Archives}}</ref>
*[[Henry Pickard]] (1832–1905), cricketer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/19192.html |title=Henry Pickard |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=16 March 2021}}</ref>
*[[Donald Pleasence]] (1919–1995), actor<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pleasence.com/BIO-DP.HTML |title=Donald Pleasence's Biography |website=pleasence.com}}</ref>
*[[Graham Taylor]] (1944–2017), former [[England national football team|England]], [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]] and [[Watford F.C.|Watford]] manager<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/news/worksop-born-former-england-manager-graham-taylor-dies-749275 |title=Worksop-born former England manager Graham Taylor dies |work=Worksop Guardian |date=12 January 2017}}</ref>
*[[Danny Thomas (footballer born 1961)|Danny Thomas]] (b.1961), footballer, played for [[Coventry City F.C.]] and [[Tottenham Hotspur]]
*[[Sam Walker (table tennis)|Sam Walker]] (b.1995), table tennis player<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tabletennisengland.co.uk/players/sam-walker/|title=Sam Walker}}</ref>
*[[Darren Ward (footballer born 1974)|Darren Ward]] (b.1974), former football goalkeeper
*[[Lee Westwood]] (b.1973), golfer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.leewestwood.golf/profile |title=Profile |website=leewestwood.golf}}</ref>
*[[Elliott Whitehouse]] (b.1993), footballer
*[[Chris Wood (footballer born 1987)|Chris Wood]] (b.1987), footballer
{{div col end}}

==See also==
* [[Listed buildings in Worksop]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{Citation |last=Brandwood |first1=Geoff |last2=Austin |first2=Tim |last3=Hughes |first3=John |last4=Price |first4=James |year=2012 |title=The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin |publication-place=Swindon |publisher=[[English Heritage]] |isbn = 978-1-84802-049-8}}
* {{Citation |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |year=1979 |title=Nottinghamshire | edition=2nd |series=Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England |publication-place=New Haven and London |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |isbn=978-0300096361}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Worksop}}
{{Wikivoyage}}
* [http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/white1875/introduction.htm ''Worksop, The Dukery and Sherwood Forest'', by Robert White (1875)]
* [http://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/ Worksop Guardian]
* [http://www.bassetlaw.gov.uk/ Bassetlaw District Council] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140530022511/http://www.bassetlaw.gov.uk/ |date=30 May 2014 }}
* [https://www.myworksop.co.uk/ MyWorksop]
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