Feast your eyes on some Mansfield surprises that you may not know about that have been alphabetically listed below.
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1. Aged ground.
One Call Stadium or Field Mill is not only home to Mansfield Town FC but is the oldest ground in the Football League, hosting football since 1861. Photo: Brian Eyre.
2. Bentinck Memorial.
Bentinck Memorial on Mansfield Market Place was erected in 1849 is actually incomplete. A statue should have gone into the empty space on top, but that never happened as money ran out. Photo: Anne Shelley.
3. Centre Tree.
On Westgate there is a tree which marks the "centre" of Sherwood Forest. There was another tree in this exact spot till 1940, and this tree was planted in 1988. Photo: Google
4. Dodsley Link.
English bookseller and publisher Robert Dodsley (1708-1764) was born in Mansfield. Photo: Hulton Archive