Mansfield which competes as Nova Centurion. The Sherwood Swimming Baths adjacent to the former Sherwood Colliery was refurbished and opened in January 2010 as the "Rebecca Adlington Swimming Centre". The 25-metre pool was widened at the expense of losing the tiered public seating and has a new, small, endless stroke-improvement training pool with variable-resistance water flow. The complex uses a ground-source heat pump backed by a biomass boiler burning wood pellets prepared from waste by a local wood yard, to reduce its carbon footprint. At the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, a Mansfield contestant, Rebecca Adlington, won two gold medals, for 400
Adlington railway station (Lancashire) station is situated, will be electrified which should reduce journey times to Manchester by up to ten minutes . There have been many delays but completion is expected before December 2018. Adlington railway station (Lancashire) Adlington railway station serves the town of Adlington, near Chorley in Lancashire, England. It is a two-platform station on the Chorley-Bolton line. This is part of the Northern service link between Preston and Manchester. Until 1960 Adlington was also served by a station named White Bear (on the Lancashire Union Railway). On 15 June 1837 by act of Parliament, the Bolton and Preston Railway Company