New Ollerton

New Ollerton
Town
St Paulinus Church
Forest Road
From a distance
Interactive map of New Ollerton
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNewark
Postcode districtNG22
Dialling code01623
PoliceNottinghamshire
FireNottinghamshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament
Websitehttps://ollerton-tc.gov.uk

New Ollerton is a town in the parish of Ollerton and Boughton, Newark and Sherwood district, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England, on the edge of Sherwood Forest. The population of Ollerton and Boughton at the 2011 census was 9,840.[1] The town is close to the villages of Ollerton and Boughton.

History

Industrial Revolution

From the 1920s onwards the main industry was coal mining with Ollerton expanding greatly during the 1960s and 1970s, having the name New Ollerton.[2]

The colliery was sunk in the 1920s and completed during the General Strike of 1926, which led to a saying of "Ollerton was ever built with scab labour".[3]

The coal mine was established and funded by the Butterley Company, having an historic base of coal and iron ore mining in nearby Derbyshire; they created a model village in Ollerton for the colliery higher management and workers. A hosiery factory was established in 1937 to provide work for the miners' wives.[4]

During the expansion of the pit, many miners from closed collieries in north-eastern England and Scotland moved to work at Ollerton.[3] There was a large Polish community amongst the miners at Ollerton, estimated to make up roughly half the workforce at the time of the 1984-1985 strike.[5]

Ollerton Colliery was considered one of the most left-wing pits in Nottinghamshire, and was subject to heavy picketing at the time of the ballot by the Nottinghamshire branch of the National Union of Mineworkers in March 1984.[6] A miner from Ackton Hall Colliery, near Featherstone, West Yorkshire died at Ollerton when picketing during the miners' strike on 15 April 1984.[7] David Gareth Jones[8] was hit in the neck by a brick thrown by a local youth when he was picketing,[9] but the post-mortem ruled that it had not caused his death and that it was more likely to have been caused by being pressed against the pit gates earlier in the day.[10] News of his death led to hundreds of pickets staying in Ollerton town centre overnight.[11] At the request of Nottinghamshire Police, Arthur Scargill appeared and called for calm in the wake of the tragedy.[11] However, several working miners in Ollerton reported that their gardens and cars had been vandalised during the night.[12] A memorial bench was sited near the spot where David died.[9] As a mark of respect for Jones, Ollerton Colliery closed for a few days afterwards.[6]

Economy

Regeneration

The Ollerton regeneration project 2023 plans to transform New Ollerton which aims to deliver a state-of-the-art library, boutique cinema and residential, retail and hospitality spaces from the levelling up funds from the UK Government. The plans have been put into place by Newark and Sherwood District Council.[13]

Ollerton Hall which came into disrepair is now being renovated. Ollerton Hall was purchased by Newark and Sherwood District Council for renovation. The hall will now become 8 apartments.[14]

Sherwood Energy Village

The colliery closed in 1994, losing around 1,000 jobs. A group of locals including past colliery workers had a vision to try to establish a new facility that would – at least – provide as many new jobs as were lost. A non-profit organisation run by 10 trustees was established to raise "...just under £50,000" to purchase the 125-acre colliery footprint from British Coal.

A further £4.25 million was needed to reclaim and clean up the land, which was redeveloped as an ecologically sustainable business park of commercial offices occupying 40-acres, named Sherwood Energy Village.[15]

Key-tenants, including Center Parcs and Nottinghamshire County Council, were responsible for creating their own buildings, with an emphasis on low-energy consumption by using advanced materials and technology including ground source heat pumps.[16][17] Included into the layout was a nearby Tesco superstore.[18]

The original development organisation failed in 2010 and went into administration, citing difficult trading conditions after the worldwide 2008 financial crisis, having created 500 more jobs than the original 1,000 target, and having been awarded the inaugural Enterprising Britain Award in 2005.[19]

Amenities

The town has a Tesco Superstore alongside a smaller Asda supermarket. [20][21]

The town also has a library. [22]

References

  1. ^ "Civil parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National statistics. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  2. ^ New Ollerton, Newark and Sherwood Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 11 July 2023
  3. ^ a b Strike: 358 Days that Shook the Nation. London: Sunday Times. 1985. p. 58. ISBN 0-340-38445-X.
  4. ^ Model Villages of the Nottinghamshire Coalfield. Ollerton, Guidebook 9 "New Ollerton became one of the largest model villages in the Dukeries with approximately 932 houses by the Second World War. The housing at New Ollerton is very similar to Butterley's accommodation at Kirkby in Ashfield and was built by a company from the same town, Messrs Coleman and Blackburn". Miner2Major via Nottinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 1 February 2024
  5. ^ Douglas, David John (1994). Pit Sense versus the State: A history of militant miners in the Doncaster area. London: Phoenic Press. p. 96. ISBN 0-948984-26-0.
  6. ^ a b Adeney, Martin; Lloyd, John (1988). The Miners' Strike 1984-5: Loss without limit. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 99. ISBN 0-7102-1371-9.
  7. ^ BBC, Bradford and West Yorkshire, March 2009. Mining Stories - The Strike: Remembering David. Retrieved 2014-02-11
  8. ^ England and Wales Deaths, Retrieved 2014-11-21
  9. ^ a b Mullins, Helen Chad (Mansfield local newspaper), 18 March 2009, p.8 Miners' Strike 25th Anniversary, interview with Mark Jones. Accessed 2014-11-21
  10. ^ Strike: 358 Days that Shook the Nation. London: Sunday Times. 1985. pp. 59–60. ISBN 0-340-38445-X.
  11. ^ a b Strike: 358 Days that Shook the Nation. London: Sunday Times. 1985. p. 61. ISBN 0-340-38445-X.
  12. ^ Strike: 358 Days that Shook the Nation. London: Sunday Times. 1985. pp. 61–62. ISBN 0-340-38445-X.
  13. ^ Kataria, Sonia (13 December 2023). "Ollerton: Regeneration plans for town centre revealed". BBC News. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
  14. ^ "Work Set To Begin To Bring Ollerton Hall Back To Life". Newark and Sherwood District Council. Retrieved 13 May 2025.
  15. ^ "Energy village rises from ashes of hurt community". Chad, 11 March 2009, pp.4-5. Retrieved 14 July 2023
  16. ^ How former miners transformed a pit into an energy village The Guardian, 12 February 2008. Retrieved 12 July 2023
  17. ^ Sherwood Energy Village Reaches Full Occupancy D2N2, 3 October 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2023
  18. ^ Tesco to create 300 jobs at Ollerton Chad, local newspaper, 13 July 2001. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2023
  19. ^ "Energy village dream is over at Ollerton". Chad, 25 August 2010, p.2. Retrieved 14 July 2023
  20. ^ "Tesco Newark New Ollerton Superstore". Tesco. Retrieved 16 February 2026.
  21. ^ "Asda New Ollerton". Asda George. Retrieved 16 February 2026.
  22. ^ "Ollerton Library". Inspire. Retrieved 16 February 2026.
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