Mattersey

Mattersey
Nottinghamshire
Mattersey
Location
Grid reference:	SK689893
Location:	53°24’-0"N, 0°57’36"W
Data
Population:	792  (2011)
Post town:	Doncaster
Postcode:	DN10
Local Government
Council:	Bassetlaw
Parliamentary constituency:	Bassetlaw

Mattersey is a village in Nottinghamshire, found about six miles north of Retford and close to the county’s border with Yorkshire. The city centre of Doncaster is just 13 miles away.

The 2011 census recorded a population of 792.

Within the parish lies the settlement of Mattersey Thorpe, originally consisting of a few farms. During Second World War many poorly built bungalows were constructed. The streets thus formed were named after prominent figures of the war, for example Keyes, Bloomfield, Churchill, Bader, Wavell, Cunningham.

The parish church, All Saints, is of the 14th century.

Mattersey Priory

About a mile to the east of the village are the remains of Mattersey Priory on a gravel island in the River Idle.

On 21 January 1999, four people died when a Tornado GR1 jet from RAF Cottesmore collided with a Cessna light aircraft above the village. The Cessna crashed into sugar-beet fields close to a school while the Tornado continued flying over woodland spilling fuel before crashing into fields about a mile away, exploding before impact. The Tornado was on a training mission, the Italian trainee was ejected from the aircraft on impact, some local villagers witnessed the parachute descending but it is thought he had failed to survive the initial impact of the two aircraft.

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