Blidworth is a small albeit old village approximately five miles east of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, UK. Another word for albeit is although A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... 5 (five) is the natural number following 4 and preceding 6. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. ...
Blidworth is frequently referred to in connection with the Robin Hood legend.
The male child born in Blidworth parish nearest to Christmas day is rocked in a beautiful flower-decked cradle at a special service on the first Sunday in February.
In 1850, Jonathan Hardcastle Esq., of Blidworth Dale, gave a gift of land in order that the churchyard could be extended, and in 1867 he sold a further plot to the parish, which was consecrated by the Bishop of Lincoln.
The colliery at Blidworth was once the hub of the village.
The hissing sounds of its engine room, the constant drone of earth-moving Euclyds and the regular tone of the pit blower signalling a change of shift, permeated the fabric of the village like some giant heartbeat - which in effect it was.
The pit was good to us for three generations and our fathers were there to witness its final heart beat, as a convoy of trucks poured a thousand ton of rubble into shafts which once took men deep beneath Sherwood forest.
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