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Besthorpe Meadows

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Besthorpe Meadows is one of 63 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Nottinghamshire. For arrivals by rail, Collingham Station is about 3.1 km to the south-east. Laxton Sykes and Eakring and Maplebeck Meadows are among the SSSIs within 11.2 km.

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Photo of the River Trent, a 95-mile river navigation running from Shardlow to Trent Falls, central England.Highlight

River Trent

River navigation

The powerhouse river of the Midlands, navigable from Shardlow through Nottingham and Newark to the tidal reaches at Gainsborough.

0.5 km W · Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire & Derbyshire

Photo of Whisby Nature Park, a nature reserve in Lincolnshire, central England.Highlight

Whisby Nature Park

Nature reserve near Lincoln

Restored gravel-pit lakes and heath west of Lincoln, threaded with trails and known for nightingales and dragonflies.

9.3 km E

Photo of Laxton, a village in Nottinghamshire, central England.Highlight

Laxton

Village

England's last village to farm the medieval open-field system, its three great fields still run by a manorial court that meets at the Dovecote Inn.

10 km W · Nottinghamshire

Photo of Newark-on-Trent, a village in Nottinghamshire, central England.Highlight

Newark-on-Trent

Village

Handsome Trent market town below its ruined castle, a cobbled square of Georgian inns and a spire among the finest in England.

10.5 km S · Nottinghamshire

Photo of Tuxford Windmill, a windmill in Nottinghamshire, central England.

Tuxford Windmill

Windmill near Tuxford

Restored 1820 tower mill grinding organic flour on the edge of the old Great North Road market town.

11.3 km NW

Photo along the Robin Hood Way, a 105-mile long-distance path running from Nottingham Castle to Edwinstowe, central England.

Robin Hood Way

Long-distance path

Nottingham Castle to Edwinstowe church through Sherwood Forest — the outlaw's county end to end.

13.1 km W · Nottinghamshire