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Monday 23 July 2012

Oxclose Wood and Meden Trail

A circular walk of about 8 miles from Pleasley Pit Country Park to Oxclose Wood and the Meden Trail.
  • Pleasley Pit Country Park Car Park (SK500644)
  • Oxclose Wood (Sherwood Colliery Tip)
  • Little Matlock
  • Meden Trail
  • Pleasley Pit Country Park Car Park
Pleasley Pit
Pleasley Pit from the path to Oxclose Wood
Pleasley Pit from the path to Oxclose Wood
Oxclose Wood (Sherwood Colliery Tip)
Mansfield from Oxclose Wood
View point on Oxclose Wood
View point on Oxclose Wood
Shirebrook Wood from Oxclose Wood
Clipstone Colliery Headstocks from Oxclose Wood
Stile into Little Matlock
Little Matlock
Meden Trail (a former railway line)
Magnesian Limestone alongside the Meden Trail.

The notice at the start of the trail says that this rock is only visible above the ground in two areas in the world. This thin broken strip between west Nottinghamshire and Durham, and an equally small area in Poland.
Pleasley Pit
Clipstone Colliery Headstocks (6 miles away) from Pleasley Pit Country Park
Oxclose Wood from Pleasley Pit Country Park
Silverhill Wood from Pleasley Pit Country Park
Pleasley Pit Country Park

1 comment:

  1. I am concerned that the farmer has ploughed up the public footpath between oxclose wood and meden trail

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