Spion Kop, Nottinghamshire

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53°11′32″N 1°09′52″W / 53.1923°N 1.1644°W / 53.1923; -1.1644

Spion Kop is a small residential and former industrial area in Nottinghamshire, England, stretching for a few hundred metres on both sides of the main A60 road surrounded by open farmland. It is 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 a Coke Street was renamed Newhaven Avenue.

The one residential side-street adjoining the main A60 road formerly known as George Street has been renamed Mosscar Close.[2]

A modern, large-scale mixed-residential development has been built on the extensive site of the old Wood Brothers timber business on Mansfield Road following a successful planning application to Mansfield District Council in 2011.[3]

References

  1. ^ Warsop Web Retrieved 27 August 2014
  2. ^ Warsop Web Retrieved 27 August 2014
  3. ^ Mansfield District Council, Planning permission for 40 bedroom care home and 58 dwellings, August 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2014

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