Forest Town is a former mining village located in the outskirts of Mansfield

Mansfield

Mansfield is a town in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the main town in the Mansfield local government district. Mansfield is a part of the Mansfield Urban Area....

, in Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...

, England

England

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. The football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 team, Forest Town F.C. currently play in the Central Midlands League Supreme Division. The Garibaldi School

Garibaldi School

Garibaldi College is a centre of learning built in the 1960s. It is on the borders of the Mansfield and Sherwood districts and teaches young people from Clipstone and Forest Town...

 is the local secondary school. The area is split into two wards

Wards of the United Kingdom

A ward in the United Kingdom is an electoral district at sub-national level represented by one or more councillors. It is the primary unit of British administrative and electoral geography .-England:...

 - Forest Town East and West, and as of the 2001 census

United Kingdom Census 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK Census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194....

, the total population of these wards was 11,194 although it was only 8,288 using older boundary data.