Mansfield Bus Station
UK bus station
Mansfield Bus Station serves the town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Nottinghamshire County Council decided to move the 1970s bus station nearer to the rail station, after the Robin Hood Line passenger service was re-established in 1995. The primary bus operators are Stagecoach, Trent Barton and National Express.
History
The former Quaker Meeting House sat on part of the site of new the bus station. George Fox, the founder of the Quakers in 1647, lived in a cottage at the site of St Philip Neri Church on Chesterfield Road in Mansfield. It was at this time he started his ministry. The Mansfield Quaker Heritage Trail starts from the bus station and leads to different sites in and around the town centre.
Nottinghamshire County Council under Labour planned to move the old bus station, created as part of extensive town redevelopment in the 1970s, from Rosemary Street nearer to the rail station to create a transport interchange. Under a Conservative county administration from the May 2009 election, the project was approved. The Department of Transport provided most of the finance with Nottinghamshire Council contributing £1.7 million.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as uK bus station. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6751710. Authority coordinates are 53.144, -1.201. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 1647 and 2009.
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This entry incorporates text from “Mansfield Bus Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.