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Mansfield (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 53 08 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 53.1333 decimal degrees |
Long: 001 12 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -1.2000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located on the River Maun 15 miles north of Nottingham and southwest of Sherwood Forest. Local economy based on coal mining, textiles, plastics, nylon, and shoes. Noted for 13th and 15th-century church and cliff cave dwellings at Rock Hill. Mansfield was the home of the Mercian Kings and a royal hunting resort in Sherwood Forest. |
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Mansfield (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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Mamefeld (H,V)
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Mamesfeld (H,V)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
Mammefeld (H,V)
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Mammesfelt (H,V)
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Memmesfed (H,V)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
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Mansfield (inhabited place) (P) |
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inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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was noted medieval center |
town (C) |
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industrial center (C) |
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manufacturing center (C) |
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