Artisans dwelling area related to coal industry in Forest Town. Built in late C19. Good condition, needs landscape and planting scheme. Interesting example of high density housing. Note front and rear access (1970). (1)

One of the most remarkable coalfield settlements in Nottinghamshire. Built at the end of the nineteenth century. There is a central road off which terraces almost 200ft long run at right angles on each side, eighteen on the east and seventeen on the west. (2)

[A] Bolsover Company village constructed for their new Crown Farm colliery opened in 1905. (3)

The layout is nevertheless highly geometric and the provision for public open space was extensive and firmly embedded in the core values of the model village and the garden city movement. The main entrances to the village, from Pump Hollow Road and Clipstone Road announce emphatically that the core value of public open space provision and access to nature is at the heart of the village. (5)

The amount of open space evident on either side of the village, including the cricket ground, recreation ground, for football and games, tennis courts, Institute (rebuilt), bowling green (expanded) and allotments was very progressive for its day. (5)

The ‘village’ at Forest Town was established piecemeal between 1905 and 1911, with the Co-op dated to 1906, the Cricket Pavilion dated to 1908 and the Drill Hall dated 1908-09. (5)

Although it is recorded that the architect Percy B. Houfton was responsible for the design of the housing, there are no drawings of the first phase of the terraced housing. (5)

Associated parsonage, school and primitive methodist chapel survive. (4)

Grid ref centred.

Data Held: Ground Photograph (Ground photograph). SNT2646.

5 BW print, SMR

<1> CBA, Industrial Survey (Published document). SNT184.

Other Refs: IA4 50/17

<2> Smith DM, 1965, The Industrial Archaeology of the East Midlands, p 261 (Published document). SNT1304.

<3> Palmer M & Neaverson P, 1992, Industrial Landscapes of the East Midlands, p 104 (Monograph). SNT5.

<4> White J, 2002, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT1529.

<5> Melanie Morris, 2018, Heritage Impact Assessment, HELAA - Preferred Options 2013-2033: Site allocations Mansfield District Local Plan 2018 (Unpublished document). SNT5792.