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Nice easy ride for all on a gravel path

In 1205 King John paid an annual stipend of 4 shillings to the hermit of Clipstone who sang in St Edwin's Chapel in Birchwude (Birklands Wood). The chapel at that time was part of the landscape of Royal Deer Park and Palace of the King's Houses (now known as King John's Palace) that were the royal heart of Medieval Sherwood Forest. The location of the chapel was marked on the 1630 map of Clipstone made by William Senior of William Cavendish Earl of Newcastle. The location is now marked on the ground by an iron cross erected in 1912 by the Duke of Portland.

A really great track to cycle

Gives a good feel of the trails

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.

nice picnic spot.

UPDATE for 2025 (and most of 2024); Ordnance clearance works now complete so route 6 is back to normal. Comment below retained for historic interest. Cycle Route 6 through Sherwood Forest. Most of 2022 and in February 2023 a central section of Cycle Route 6 has been closed (fenced off) with a diversion that isn't well sign posted and passes through sandy terrain not well suited to cycling. Although its possible to pass through and go around fences, I've been stopped en route. Cycle route 6 passes by an area previously used by the Army and they're clearing live ammo, occasionally with controlled detonations.