Spion Kop, Nottinghamshire

Spion Kop is a small village in the Mansfield District in the civil parish of Warsop, in Nottinghamshire. It stretches along both sides of the main A60 road for a few hundred metres. Spion Kop lies to the south of Market Warsop.

History

It is a settlement built and named after the Battle of Spion Kop which took place during the Second Boer War in Natal, South Africa, in January 1900. A major military figure in the conflict was John Talbot Coke, grandson of D'Ewes Coke, born at Mansfield Woodhouse, a well-known Nottinghamshire industrialist and clergyman. At Mansfield Woodhouse a Coke Street was renamed Newhaven Avenue.
A modern, large-scale mixed-residential development was built on the extensive site of the old Wood Brothers timber business on Mansfield Road following a successful planning application to Mansfield District Council in 2011.