Mansfield

Mansfield, a market-town of Nottinghamshire, in Sherwood Forest, 17 miles N. of Nottingham. Its grammar-school (1561) has been rebuilt at a cost of £10,000; and there are a memorial cross (1850) to Lord George Bentinck, a town-hall (1836), an interesting parish church, &c. Mansfield stands in the centre of a manufacturing and mining district, and has manufactures of lace-thread and iron. Pop. (1851) 10,012; (1891) 15,925. See Harred's History of Mansfield (1801).