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 | | MANSFIELD, a market town and municipal borough in the Mansfield parliamentary division of Nottinghamshire, England, on the small river Mann or Maun; the junction of several branches of the Midland railway, by which it is 142 m. |
 | | During the heptarchy Mansfield was occasionally the residence of the Mercian Icings, and it was afterwards a favorite resort of Norman sovereigns, lying as it does on the western outskirts of Sherwood Forest. |
 | | Mansfield was laid out in 1808, and was named in honor of Lieut.-Colonel Jared Mansfield (1759-1830), United States surveyor of Ohio and the North-west Territory in 1803-1812, and professor of natural and experimental philosophy at West Point from 1812 to 1828. |
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