Tuxford is a historic market town[1] and a civil parish in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England.

The section of road, known as Carlton to Markham Moor, or the Sutton-on-Trent, Weston and Tuxford Bypass, was built by Robert McGregor & Sons, with concreting aggregates supplied by Hoveringham Gravels (later bought by Tarmac).

Previously, the 1950s plan was to merely dual the main road, with a small bypass at Tuxford, and diversions at Weston and Scarthingmoor, but it was realised that all gaps should be closed, and that bridges should instead be built.

[12] The bridges were made by Conder (Midlands) Ltd, a structural steelwork company of Burton upon Trent.

[13] On Friday 30 September 1966, seventy five people from the International Road Federation, from a conference in London, travelled to Cromwell and Tuxford, to see the new slip form method.

[15][16] The Tuxford parish council were not invited to the opening, due to long term heated disagreements over a lack of footbridge provision.

Also at the opening was the chairman of Nottinghamshire County Council, Albert Pounder, and the Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham Gordon Savage.

In Daniel Defoe's eighteenth century work, A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, Tuxford is referred to as 'Tuxford in the Clays'; Defoe writes: 'Passing Newark Bridge, we went through the lower side of Nottinghamshire, keeping within the River Idle.

Edward Bishop Elliott, a distinguished theologian who, while in residence at Tuxford, authored an authoritative and widely read commentary on the biblical Book of Revelation, titled Horae Apocalypticae.

[21] Tuxford's local library is housed in a 17th-century building that was originally the Read Grammar School.

The school was founded in 1669 by the bequest of Charles Read (1604–1669), who was born at Darlton about 3 miles (4.8 km) from Tuxford, and became a wealthy shipper in Hull.

[22] Read also founded grammar schools at Corby Glen in Lincolnshire and Drax in Yorkshire.

Ventilation to each cell is via two circular holes, with iron bars on the front and back walls.

Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation (Dosco) made mining equipment in the town.

The Great Northern Railway opened the East Coast Main Line through Tuxford in 1852.

In 1897 The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway opened its line through Tuxford, linking Sheffield and Chesterfield with Lincoln.

Dukeries Junction station was built where the two railways cross, and was a split-level affair with platforms on both lines, existing solely as an interchange point surrounded by open fields with no proper road access.

The former LD&ECR railway line has since been reopened by Network Rail in 2009 as the High Marnham Test Track for testing trains between Thoresby Jn and High Marnham at speeds of up to 75 mph, with extensive sidings and mock OHL electrification being built at Tuxford approximately 5 miles away from the former Tuxford Central Station.

A company called Transform Schools (mainly represented by building company Balfour Beatty) spent millions of pounds re-building six secondary schools within the Bassetlaw area as part of a PFI funded project.

Tuxford Academy has, surprisingly, only had four head teachers during its lifetime to date: Bernard Woodward, Keith Atkinson, Geoff Lloyd, and Chris Pickering and current principal, David Cotton.

[28] Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC East Midlands and ITV Central.