page_title: Mansfield
section_title: Markets
hierarchical_section_title: Mansfield / Economy / Markets
caption_attribution_description: English: The Mansfield Brewery entrance building. Not much changes in the last six years 1163630. While around it the works buildings have gone.
context_page_description: Mansfield is a market town in Nottinghamshire, England, the main town in the District of Mansfield and Mansfield Urban Area. It lies in the Maun Valley, 12 miles north of Nottingham, and is near Sutton-in-Ashfield. Most of the 106,556 population live within the town proper, with Market Warsop as a secondary centre. It is the only local authority in Nottinghamshire directly to elect its mayor. Coal mining and textiles were the main industries until closures in the 1990s. Despite some industrial diversification, 20.2 per cent of the working-age population today claim out-of-work benefits.
context_section_description: Mansfield is a market town with a 700-year-old market tradition; a Royal Charter was issued in 1227. The present market square was created after demolition under the Improvement Act of 1823. In the centre is the Bentinck Memorial, built in 1849, which commemorates Lord George Bentinck (1802–1848), son of the William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, a local landowner.
  A nearby area called Buttercross Market in West Gate, the site of an old cattle market, has a centrepiece of local stone dating from the 16th century. Mansfield District Council closed this section in 2015. Adjacent is Mansfield Library, officially opened by the Queen in 1977 and refurbished in 2012. The old Carnegie Library, founded in 1905 in Leeming Street, was used from 1976 as an arts and performance centre.
caption: The remaining part of the old Brewery offices, now housing a learning centre
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