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Rainworth sits on the edge of the historic Sherwood Forest, roughly three miles southeast of Mansfield and straddling the border between the Newark & Sherwood and Mansfield districts. Originally a small hamlet on the old route to Newark, the village saw significant growth with the sinking of Rufford Colliery in the early 20th century, which established its character as a sturdy mining community. Since the colliery’s closure in the 1990s, the village has transitioned into a quiet residential area, largely bypassing the heavy congestion of the nearby town centres thanks to the A617 bypass. For those who enjoy the outdoors, the village is well-positioned; it is bordered by the Rainworth Water stream and sits a short distance from the Sherwood Pines Forest Park and the RSPB’s Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve. Practical amenities are concentrated around the Southwell Road area, where local shops, primary schools, and a health centre serve the community, while the surrounding landscape still retains pockets of the heathland and pine plantations that define this part of Nottinghamshire.