Bassetlaw District

Bassetlaw District
Bassetlaw District
Non-metropolitan district
	Bassetlaw
	From left to right:; Top: The Dunham Bridge in Dunham on Trent connecting Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire and also a toll bridge; Middle 1st: All Saints Church Harworth and Tuxford Windmill; Middle 2nd: Blyth and Worksop Priory church; Lower: Retford Town Hall;
	Shown within Nottinghamshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	East Midlands
Administrative county	Nottinghamshire
Founded	1 April 1974
Admin. HQ	Worksop
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district
• Governing body	Bassetlaw District Council
• MPs:	Robert Jenrick,; Jo White
Area
• Total	246 sq mi (638 km2)
• Rank	55th
Population (2024)
• Total	124,937
• Rank	Ranked 197th
• Density	507/sq mi (196/km2)
Ethnicity (2021)
• Ethnic groups	List 96.4% White ; 1.2% Asian ; 1.2% Mixed ; 0.6% Black ; 0.6% other ;
Religion (2021)
• Religion	List 58.5% Christianity ; 39.7% no religion ; 1.1% other ; 0.7% Islam ;
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
Postcode Areas	DN, NG, S

Bassetlaw is a local government district in north Nottinghamshire, England. Its council is based in the town of Worksop; the other towns in the district are Retford, Tuxford and Harworth Bircotes. The district also contains numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.

Bassetlaw is bounded to the south by the Newark and Sherwood and Mansfield districts, to the south-west by the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, to the north-west by the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham and the City of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, to the north by North Lincolnshire, and to the east by West Lindsey.

Bassetlaw has been a non-constituent member of the East Midlands Combined County Authority since its estalishment in 2024.. Simultaneously, the district maintains an indirect relationship as a non-constituent member of the South Yorkshire Mayoral Authority.