Spion Kop, Nottinghamshire
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 A60 road approaching Spion Kop showing new residential development on old Wood Bros site to left behind fence |
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| OS grid reference | SK555665 |
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| District | Mansfield |
| Shire county | Nottinghamshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Mansfield |
| Postcode district | NG20 |
| Police | Nottinghamshire |
| Fire | Nottinghamshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | Bassetlaw |
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Coordinates: 53°11′32″N 1°09′52″W / 53.1923°N 1.1644°W
Spion Kop is a small residential and former industrial area in Nottinghamshire, England stretching for a few hundred yards on both sides of the main A60 road surrounded by open farmland. The population is included in the civil parish of Warsop.
It is located about a mile to the south of Warsop on the A60, Mansfield Road. It is a settlement built and named after the Battle of Spion Kop which took place during the Second Boer War in Natal, South Africa in January 1900.[1] A major military figure in the conflict was John Talbot Coke, grandson of D'Ewes Coke, born at Mansfield Woodhouse, a well-known Nottinghamshire industrialist and clergyman. At Mansfield Woodhouse there was a Coke Street, renamed as Newhaven Avenue.
The one residential side-street adjoining the main A60 road formerly known as George Street has been renamed as Mosscar Close.[2]
A modern, large-scale mixed-residential development has occurred on the extensive site of the old Wood Brothers (Wood Bros) timber business on Mansfield Road following a successful planning application to Mansfield District Council in 2011.[3]
References
- ↑ Warsop Web Retrieved 27 August 2014
- ↑ Warsop Web Retrieved 27 August 2014
- ↑ Mansfield District Council, planning permission for 40 bedroom care home and 58 dwellings, August 2011 Retrieved 27 August 2014
External links
Media related to Spion Kop, Nottinghamshire at Wikimedia Commons