Retirement Properties Spotlight in Mansfield

Mansfield was for many years the main industrial centre in the middle of the county surrounded by collieries. Before the fortunes made from coal Mansfield was an ancient market town by the River Maun and known to have had a Roman camp. Beside the Southwell Road can be found the 'Rock Houses' - cliff dwellings still occupied in the nineteenth century. For many years Mansfield was a small town in the middle of the forest and a plaque in Westgate marks the spot where the 'centre oak' was cut down in 1940. Today all that remains of Robin's Sherwood lie to the south east of the town and to the north of Nottingham.