This town and parish lies on both banks of the River Meden, 140 miles north of London, about 8 miles south-west of Worksop and 5.5 miles north-east of Mansfield. The parish covers almost 7,000 acres and includes the townships of Warsop and Sookholme and the hamlets of Gleadthorpe and Nettleworth.

Warsop township makes up about 6,000 acres and includes the two villages of Church Warsop and Market Warsop. The Market here has long been obsolete.

Sookholme township and chapelry makes up about 982 acres at the west end of the parish, up against Derbyshire, and includes the village of Sookholme. The village is about 4 miles north of Mansfield. The chapel here is a chapel-of-ease for Warsop. Magnesian Limestone is found in great quantities here. About a quarter of a mile south-west of the village is a spring, from which a small stream runs through the village into the Meden River.

If you are planning a visit to the village:

• The village is on the A60 south out of Worksop or north out of Mansfield.
   
• Check out the Community News.
   
• Stagecoach bus 12 runs twice an hour between Shirebrook, Warsop and Mansfield.
   
• Warsop railway station operated between 1897 and 1955. The rail line is currently freight-only, but there is comminity interest is restarting passenger service between Shirebrook (DBY) and Warsop.
   
• The parish holds an annual carnival traditionally scheduled on the first or second Sunday in July.
   

• English Heritage are responsible for the care and repair of many buildings of historic importance. The Historic England Archive  (previously the National Monuments Record) is English Heritage's public archive and is the home of around 10 million items covering England's buildings, archaeology and maritime sites. English Heritage's ambitious Images of England initiative aims to put a photograph of every listed building in England on the internet.
• The Badger's Heritage website features many pen and ink drawings of churches, schools, pubs, hotels, bridges, locks, mills, cottages & villages in Berkshire, Hampshire, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Surrey, West Sussex and Wiltshire.
• Destination England from Lonely Planet.
• There are many links on the (Internet Archive snapshot from 2018) England's Buildings webring.
• ViewFinder - an online image resource for England's history provided by Historic England.
• The England in Particular website from Common Ground encourages the study of our own localities.

• Descriptions of the county and its towns and parishes from different periods can be found in trade directories from the early 19th century onwards - see Directories.
• Travel Writing - transcriptions of a number of books describing early travels in Britain, from Vision of Britain.
• The U.K. Database of Historic Parks and Gardens provided by Landscapes & Gardens at the University of York.
• The complete texts of Defoe's Tour of Great Britain (1778), Thompson's Tour of England and Scotland (1785) and Stebbing's Tour of the west of England. Made available by The Center for Retrospective Digitization, Göttingen State and University Library.
• Geograph British Isles - "aims to collect a geographically representative photograph for every square kilometre of the British Isles".
• Historical Aerial Photography - "an unsurpassed collection of information about old aerial photographs of the UK, from the 40's to the 90's..."
• Britain From Above - "the unique Aerofilms collection of aerial photographs from 1919-1953".
• Round the Coast scanned photographs from "An album of pictures from photographs of the chief seaside places of interest in Great Britain and Ireland" (George Newnes Ltd., 1895)" provided by by Rosemary and Stan Rodliffe.
• A modern map of the United Kingdom.