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Small Pond, clear water, we spotted some beautiful roach with silver body & red fins, mother moorhen & chicks hiding in the flora

Portland Park has woodland, grassland, and a number of wetland areas found in the valley of a tributary of the River Erewash, bounded by used and disused railway lines. The meadow area was once a limestone quarry, which was infilled during the 1950s and the park is known locally as ‘The Quarries’. The site is based on a band of magnesium limestone that enables many rare plant species to grow, making it a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).

The park has different trails, including flat paths and steeper climbs. If you're looking for a challenge, try the route up Clipstone Tip for spectacular views.

good starting point for walks and bike rides, can easily get into sherwood pines from here and all surrounding routes, a very nice area and seems popular for fishing

Nice easy ride for all on a gravel path

Really needed a better camera for the resident kingfisher but it's there if you look hard enough.

Located between Mansfield and Bolsover, this picturesque woodland is rapidly developing into one of the most attractive wildlife sites in the region. With its mixture of mature broadleaf woodland, newly planted trees, large open meadows and a scenic wetland valley, Shirebrook Wood offers something for everybody.

As a former pit top site, Shirebrook Wood has been reclaimed & redeveloped with large-scale planting of native shrubs and trees and the whole site has been totally landscaped, The Derbyshire side (West) has been turned into an Industrial Estate.

CLAIMED TO BE THE LEGENDARY location where Robin Hood met the feisty Friar Tuck in the famous folktale, the overgrown remains of a 12th-century moat, lodge, and holy well complex persist in this soggy corner of Sherwood Forest. Fountain Dale’s ancient moat is an impressive waterlogged ditch, 40 feet wide, enclosing what was once a large rectangular artificial island. The feature dates to at least 1251, when the moated island was the site of a hunting lodge, the vestiges of which remain hidden beneath centuries of mud and undergrowth. To date, little archaeological investigation at the site has been carried out. This said, the remains of the medieval manse are likely to be well preserved, having remained unusually undisturbed. The moat and its structures are listed as a Scheduled Monument of National Importance by the public heritage organization Historic England.

warm and friendly welcome but not that the prices are due to increase shortly

Pleasley Pit buildings are an Ancient monument Museum and Cafe all volunteer run. Parking and direct Access to the Phoenix greenways network of trails www.cycletrails.co.uk

Great view of the old Pit with a countryside backdrop.

A lovely gravel trail on the site of the old Pleasley colliery which has noe been truned into a nature reserve. The old pit head buildings are really interesting too: https://www.pleasleypittrust.org.uk/

nice spot for bird watchers - lots of waterfowl

Bacon butty spot. Go

With a cafe on site and a number of gravel trails, paths and ponds it's a great place to visit

Fans of English folklore heed this well, for it was at Fountain Dale where the first meeting of Robin Hood and Friar Tuck took place. Legend goes that they fought at the moat, the remains of which are sadly all but gone. Interestingly, Sir Walter Scott wrote his famous novel Ivanhoe here. The novel is partly to thank for the modern perception of many of the principal characters of Robin Hood folklore, including the Prince of Thieves himself.

Pleasley Coillery still standing much as it did when it was a working Coal Mine with the worker huts and units that have now been turned into a cafe and a bit of a museum with photographs of and items of what the coal mining industry was like. Cafe is very reasonably priced but take cash.

A stones throw from the train station; A short ride from Mansfield Woodhouse. Shirebrook Wood is a number of gravel loops up through the woods, past the fishing ponds behind Sports Direct. It also connects to the Archeological Trail which takes you to Creswell and on to Clumber Park as well as Route 648 which takes you into Sherwood Forest

Nature Reserve on the site of a former railway station with a small number of walking / cycling trails http://www.friendsofportlandpark.org.uk