Mattersey Thorpe
| Mattersey Thorpe | |
| Nottinghamshire | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Mattersey Thorpe sign | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK682898 |
| Location: | 53°24’4"N, -0°58’30"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Doncaster |
| Postcode: | DN10 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Bassetlaw |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Bassetlaw |
Mattersey Thorpe is a small village in northern Nottinghamshire, 32 miles north of the county town, the City of Nottingham, and five and a half miles north of the nearest town, Retford. It is beside the River Idle, just north-west of its parent village, Mattersey.
The historic core of the Mattersey Thorpe is located where Breck Lane meets Thorpe Lane. This end of the area is predominantly a farming community, interspersed by farms, the occasional residential dwelling and greenfield land.
A modern estate sits directly to the west centred around the Bader Rise and Keyes Rise roads.
Name
The name of Mattersey itself appears as n Madressei or Madreisseig in the Domesday Book of 1086, from the Old English language, possibly some such form as Mædryscieg which would mean 'Meadow-rush island', suggesting 'well-watered land', implying a flood plain area due to its proximity to a river.[1]
Mattersey Thorpe first appears in the records as Thorpe in 1298. The thorpe is used here in Norse form as a 'hamlet adjoining a village or chief settlement.' It was further recorded as Thorp juxta Madersey in 1305, with a recognisably modern form appearing in 1545 Nottinghamshire post mortem records as Matterseythorp.[1]
History
Before the Norman Conquest in 1066 AD, Mattersey was the manor of Earl Tostig Godwinson. After the historic Battle of Hastings in which he died, Mattersey was given to a Norman family who took the name of De Mattersey or Maresay.
Mattersey Thorpe comprised 4 farms and their associated dwellings (one dating to 1648) until 1940.
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During the Second World War, 157 pre-fabricated bungalows were built as an emergency housing settlement by the government for workers at the munitions factory that had been established in nearby Ranskill. Many of the roads then built were named after notable wartime figures (Keys Rise after Roger Keyes, Winston Green after Winston Churchill, Bader Rise for Douglas Bader, Wavell Crecent after Archibald Wavell, Cunningham Close after Sir Andrew Cunningham, Newall Close after Cyril Newall, Wilson Close after Henry Maitland Wilson.[2] There was also a shop, school and club building. After the war, the district council rebuilt part of the area in the 1970s with urban-styled council housing. In the 1990s a development of market housing of 2 and 3 bed bungalows was completed on the remaining land.
About the village
The village green includes a children's play area. There are also separate playing fields.
There is also a community centre.