Blidworth
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Blidworth is a village and civil parish approximately five miles east of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 4,457, this dropped to 4,295 in the 2021 census.
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The entry is geolocated on the map, across 3 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Blidworth is referenced by 53 other articles, and connects out to London, England and World War I.
It sits within the topics Blidworth, Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire and Newark and Sherwood.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Newark and Sherwood
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 4,457
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image_alt
- Sign saying Blidworth welcomes careful drivers, with images of Robin Hood, the church and a coal mine
- UK place.map_type
- Nottinghamshire
- UK place.official_name
- Blidworth
- UK place.population
- 4,295
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021)
- UK place.shire_district
- Newark and Sherwood
- UK place.shire_county
- Nottinghamshire
- UK place.region
- East Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Sherwood
- UK place.post_town
- Mansfield
- UK place.postcode_district
- NG21
- UK place.postcode_area
- NG
- UK place.dial_code
- 01623
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SK 592560
- UK place.type
- Village and civil parish
- UK place.mapframe
- yes
- UK place.mapframe zoom
- 12
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Newark and Sherwood
- Population
- 4457
- Image
- Blidworth the Black Bull 24 June 2017.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01623
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- Commons category
- Blidworth
- postal code
- NG21
- OS grid reference
- SK592560
- P8168
- The Final Countdown
- P12749
- Helmut Thielicke
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- History
- Druid Stone
- 12th to 13th Centuries
- Robin Hood
- 19th and 20th Centuries
- Blidworth Mill
- Blidworth Welfare Band
- Housing
- Blidworth Welfare Football Club
- Places of worship
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
Blidworth is a village and civil parish approximately five miles east of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 4,457, this dropped to 4,295 in the 2021 census.
==Toponymy== Blidworth seems to contain the Old English personal name, Blitha' + worð (Old English) an enclosure, so 'Blitha's enclosure'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blidworth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (4)
On the map
3 mapped locations