Spion Kop, Nottinghamshire

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. It is in the civil parish of Warsop.

Spion Kop

A60 road approaching Spion Kop showing new residential development on old Wood Bros site to left behind fence
Spion Kop
Location within Nottinghamshire
OS grid referenceSK555665
District
  • Mansfield
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townMansfield
Postcode districtNG20
PoliceNottinghamshire
FireNottinghamshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament

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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