Editing Worksop (section)

===Medieval and early modern history===
A skirmish occurred in the area during the [[Wars of the Roses]] on 16 December 1460, commonly known as the [[Battle of Worksop]].

In 1530, Worksop was visited by Cardinal [[Thomas Wolsey]], who was on his way to [[Cawood]], in Yorkshire. "Then my lord [Wolsey] intending the next day to remove from thence [Newstead Abbey] there resorted to him the Earl of Shrewsbury's keeper, and gentlemen, sent from him, to desire my lord, in their maister's behalf, to hunt in a parke of their maister's, called Worsoppe Parke." (Cavendish's ''Life of Wolsey'')

A surviving (Cotton) manuscript written by [[Henry VIII]] nominated Worksop as one of three places in Nottinghamshire (along with Welbeck and Thurgarton) to become "[[bishopric]]s to be new made", but nothing was to come of this (White 1875), and the priory later became a victim of the [[dissolution of the monasteries]] – being closed in 1539, with its prior and 15 monks pensioned off. All the priory buildings, except the nave and west towers of the church, were demolished at this time and the stone reused elsewhere.

In 1540, [[John Leland (antiquary)|John Leland]] noted that Worksop castle had all but disappeared, saying it was: "clene down and scant knowen wher it was". Leland noted that at that time Worksop was "a praty market of 2 streates and metely well buildid."

[[Worksop Manor]] became a prison for [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] in 1568. In 1580s the new house was built on the same site for [[George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury]]. He was the husband of Elizabeth Talbot, [[Bess of Hardwick]]. 
[[File:Worksop Manor- aerial 2017 (2) - geograph 5542991.jpg|thumb|Worksop Manor]]
In the [[hearth tax]] records of 1674, Worksop is said to have had 176 households, which made it the fourth-largest settlement in Nottinghamshire after Nottingham (967 households), Newark (339), and Mansfield (318). At this time, the population is estimated to have been around 748 people.