What is "mansfield"

Mansfield is a town in Nottinghamshire, England, pop. est 100,000 __NOTOC__ Mansfield may also refer to:

Mansfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1987 by Sir Alan Meale of the Labour Party.

Mansfield is a commuter rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail Providence/Stoughton Line, located in downtown Mansfield, Massachusetts. With 1,707 weekday inbound riders in a 2013 count, Mansfield is the fifth-busiest station on the system.

With mini-high platforms on both tracks, Mansfield is fully handicapped accessible. Large parking lots are available west of the tracks, with limited parking including accessible spots next to the station building east of the tracks.

Mansfield is a historic home located at Montgomery Township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1807, and is a two-story, three bay stone dwelling with a one-story, four bay rear wing. It has a full-length, one-story, shed roofed front porch. The property once included a saw mill and woolen factory.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Mansfield (first name and dates unknown) was an English first-class cricketer who made a single known appearance for All-England against Chertsey at Laleham Burway on 10–11 September 1778. Mansfield scored 17 runs with a highest score of 15 not out. Mansfield may have played in the return match at the Artillery Ground on 15 September, but no details of that match have survived.

As Mansfield had established his reputation by 1778, he must have been active for some years previously. Very few players were mentioned by name in contemporary reports and there are no other references to Mansfield.

Mansfield is an English surname. The name Mansfield arrived in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066. It derives from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire or a similar toponym. It is often the anglicized form of the German surname Mansfeld. Notable people with this surname include the following:

• Sir Alan Mansfield (1902–1980), Australian judge, Governor of Queensland
• Arabella Mansfield (1846–1911), first American female lawyer
• Brian Mansfield (born 1963), American writer and journalist
• Bruce Mansfield (born 1944), Australian television and radio personality
• Charles Mansfield (disambiguation)
• Comins Mansfield (1896–1984), British chess player and problem composer
• Darrell Mansfield, American gospel and blues musician
• David Mansfield (born 1956), American musician
• Edward Mansfield (disambiguation)
• Edwin Mansfield, (1930–1997), economist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania
• Eric Mansfield (disambiguation)
• Fred Mansfield (1915–1992), English footballer
• Frederick Mansfield (1877–1958), American politician, Mayor of Boston
• Gordon H. Mansfield (1941–2013), American Army veteran, Deputy United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
• Harvey Mansfield (born 1932), American professor of government and conservative political commentator
• Henry Mansfield (died 1328), English medieval theologian, philosopher, churchman, and university chancellor
• Sir James Mansfield (1733–1821), British lawyer, judge and politician
• James Mansfield (cricketer, born 1860) (1860–1930), Tasmanian cricketer
• James Mansfield (cricketer, born 1862) (1862–1932), English cricketer
• Jared Mansfield (1759–1830), American mathematician and surveyor
• Jayne Mansfield (1933–1967), American actress and sex symbol
• Jeremy Mansfield, South African radio and television personality
• Jerry Mansfield (1892-1960), American football player
• John Mansfield (disambiguation)
• Joseph K. Mansfield (1803–1862), Union army general in the American Civil War
• Joseph J. Mansfield (1861–1947), American Congress representative from Texas
• Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923), New Zealand author
• Keith Mansfield (born 1941), British composer and arranger
• Keith Mansfield (writer) (born 1965), English writer and publisher
• Ken Mansfield (born 1937), American record executive
• Marie Mansfield (born 1931), American baseball player
• Martha Mansfield (1899–1923), American actress
• Michael Mansfield (born 1941), English barrister
• Michael Mansfield (footballer) (born 1971), former Australian rules footballer
• Mike Mansfield (1903–2001), American politician and diplomat
  • Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, named after Mike Mansfield, dedicated to "advancing understanding and cooperation in U.S.-Asia relations"
• Sir Peter Mansfield (born 1933), British physicist and pioneer of MRI
• Ray Mansfield (1941–1996), American football player
• Richard Mansfield (1857–1907), Anglo-American stage actor
• Stephen Mansfield (born 1958), American author
• Tony Mansfield (hurler) (1939–2013), Irish hurler
• Tony Mansfield (born 1955), English songwriter, musician and record producer
• Walter R. Mansfield (1911–1987), American federal judge
• Wayne Mansfield, Australian-based marketer and convicted spammer
• William Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst (1819–1876), British Army general

Mansfield is a historic plantation house located near Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. It was built in stages starting about 1750, and is a 1 1/2-story long and narrow frame dwelling with a hipped roof. It has a hipped roof rear ell connected to the main house by a hyphen. It features an octastyle Colonial Revival porch stretching the full length of the front facade.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Mansfield is the only local authority area in the county to have a directly elected Mayor and in October 2008 Mansfield elected its first Youth Mayor.

Historically, the district has been influenced heavily by its industrial past with coal mining and textiles thriving in the district until their decline in the 1990s, but in common with the national economy the area has seen the decline of these sectors. Mansfield has 20.2% (12,890) of its working age population seeking key out of work benefits (based on a 63,800 total working age population) (NOMIS).

Over the last century the population has declined in parallel with this traditional industrial base. However much has been done to diversify the economic base and to replace jobs lost. Mid-year population forecasts reveal that since April 2008 the population has gone from 100,100 to 100,600 in 2009, 99,700 in 2010 to the current figure of 99,600 in 2011.