Heritage Route
In 2012 one of our regular walkers put forward a proposal to introduce a new walk that was to be a walk through our local areas history/heritage.
The route to include visits to sites of industrial plus historical heritage. Therefore, living in a predominantly mining,area we planned to take advantage of remnants of this era……railway lines…..old “pit tips” and open cast diggings/quarries.
What a promise of a walk I hear you say!!!!
Well to be truthful this,we thought, would be a real challenge. We need not have worried. ……..
Old railway lines = Cycle and bridle tracks
Pit Tips = reclaimed and replanted with flora and fauna and walk routes incorporated into green hillsides all over the 2 counties of Notts. & Derbys!
Open cast diggings/quarries = water filled nature reserves attracting all types of wildlife and a haven for fishing enthusiasts.
Once upon a time some of the areas we planned to walk in would have resembled “lunar type landscapes”…..black from pit slurry etc…..quite frankly a land of grim and unforgiving territory that could be “smelt” from miles away. Anyone travelling north along the M1 north of J29 only had to look to their right for evidence of this.
You have to walk this route to see the wonderful landscape changes far beyond expectations. Younger types don’t believe what we tell them about how the area used to look. It a simply unimaginable to kids born post 1995ish.
On top of the landscape we pass some of the countries finest stately homes and an historic castle………these are:
Bolsover Castle
Sutton Scarsdale Hall
Hardwick Hall
Welbeck Estates
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Walk designed by Scott Ellis — first walked by the LSW in 2013
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2022 Hertiage Route Draft (March 2022)
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Section 1 – Whitwell – Heath – 11.9 miles (1)
Section 2 – Heath – Teversal- 6.2 miles (1)
Section 3 – Teversal – Pleasley Vale Mills – 5.8 miles (1)
Section 4 – Pleasley Vale Mills – Shirebrook Pear Tree – 5.3__ miles
Section 5 – Shirebrook Pear Tree – Cuckney 4.8 miles
Section 6 – Cuckney to Holbeck 2.5 miles
Section 7 – Holbeck to Whitwell – THE END 3.69
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2022 Full and Final Heritage Walk Route Description Pack
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PDF Maps (Maps updated 29th May 2022).
Stage 1 – Whitwell to Heath – 11.9 Miles
Stage 1b – Whitwell to Heath – 11.9 Miles Part__ 2
Stage 2 – Heath to Teversal VC – 6.18__ miles
Stage 3 – Teversal to Pleasley Vale Mills -__ 5.82 miles (1)
Stage 4 – Pleasley Vale to Shirebrook Pear__ Tree 5.37
Stage 5 – Shirberook Pear Tree to Cuckney -__ 4.58 miles
Stage 6 – Cuckney to Holbeck Village – 2.57__ miles (1)
Stage 7 – Holbeck Village to Whitwell 3.68__ miles (1)