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GENUKI: White's Directory 1853 - Worksop, NTT |
 | | It includes Worksop Manor and Clumber Park, the princely seat of the Duke of Newcastle, and extends eastwards from Shireoaks (at the junction of the three counties of York, Derby and Nottingham), to Osberton and Rushey Inn, near Babworth, a distance of seven miles. |
 | | The Manor of Worksop forms a separate constablewick, and comprises the greater part of the town, the Manor House and Park, Worksop Lodge, and the scattered dwellings of Ratcliffe, Ratcliffe Grange, harness Grove, Darfould and Sloswick, on the borders of Derbyshire, two miles west of the town. |
 | | Worksop is one of the polling places for the Borough of East Retford, in which all the freeholders of Bassetlaw are entitled to vote for two members of parliament. |
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