Mansfield Woodhouse Today
The town now has a population of over 18,000.
It has a number of schools; the larger primary schools are St. Edmund's Church of England Primary School, Northfield Primary and Nursery School, Peafield Lane Primary and Nursery School, Leas Park Junior School and Nettleworth Primary and Nursery School. The largest school is The Manor School, a comprehensive school opened in September 1973 and originally consisted of buildings over a wide area, including Park Hall road and Yorke Street. However the Park Hall Road site is the only one to currently survive. This is also the location of The Manor Sport and Recreation Centre, a new £1.9 million indoor sports facility opened on 11 May 2002.
The Co-op in Mansfield Woodhouse closed on 10 January 2009, and was later replaced by a Morrisons store on 29 June 2009. The town is being re-developed in many other areas, including the area around Thoresby Road, near the train station in which a new housing estate is being built to replace the older terraced houses that stood there before. A new police station has also served the town since 2007.
The town is served by Mansfield Woodhouse railway station, on the Robin Hood Line.
The town also has a volunteer-run newsletter called The Woodhouse Warbler with a circulation in the thousands. They release a new issue every 3 to 4 months. They also produced a magazine collecting locals World War II memories. It was funded by the Big Lottery Fund.
Mansfield Woodhouse is known around Nottinghamshire for its junior football clubs: Woodhouse Colts JFC and Manor 4th FC, both of which offer football to youngsters from the age of 6-18.
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