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In the early part of the twentieth century, horse-drawn trams ran along Mansfield Road to the stables and depot between St. John's Church and Watcombe Road. Later, this line was extended to Sherwood and upgraded to electric trams. The tram depot was replaced by Carrington Lido (open air swimming pool) and, later still, by a town-house development.
The ward of Sherwood (which includes some adjacent neighbourhoods) is represented by Nottingham City Council and has three Labour Party councillors. [3] It lies in the Nottingham East parliamentary constituency, which from 1992 until 2010 was represented by MP John Heppell, and from 2010 by Chris Leslie, who was elected with a majority of 6,969. [4]
Its boundaries are Mapperley Road (south), Mansfield Road (west), Private Road (north) and Woodborough Road (east). The location known as Mapperley Ridge, at 122 metres above sea level, has a transmitter which broadcasts BBC Radio Nottingham and Capital FM (formerly Trent FM ), as well as three DAB digital radio multiplexes ( NOW Nottingham ...
Dating from 1936, the current Home Brewery Company Ltd. [8] building is now officially known as 'Sir John Robinson House' and houses more than 30,000 square feet (2,800 m 2) worth of county council offices. It is located at the junction between the A60 (Mansfield Road) and Sir John Robinson Way, [a] and its architect was Thomas Cecil Howitt. [11]
A 2023 Nottinghamshire County Council report quoted a detour-length of four miles. [16] In late 2024, an eel ladder, constructed by Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust with funding from Severn Trent Water, was created to assist in the upriver journeys of European eels, an endangered species, as they climb towards the mill-pond at the weir section ...
There is a further group of 12 two-bedroom houses that were built earlier in 1889, in Sherwood, as Sir John Robinson alms houses in honour of his son's 21st birthday. [ citation needed ] References
Nottingham Mansfield Worksop: Road network; ... → A61: The A60 is a road linking Loughborough in Leicestershire, ... Nottingham. Sherwood; Arnold; Ravenshead;
Mansfield Road forms the west of this and is the main shopping area. The mine closed in 1989. [6] There is now an industrial estate on Burma Road, north of Belle Vue Lane, as well as a Leisure Centre and the Miners Social Welfare Centre. Other 20th century industries included factories for the manufacture of shoes, hosiery, textiles and metal ...