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Laxton Sykes

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Laxton Sykes is one of 63 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Nottinghamshire. Other SSSIs nearby include Wellow Park and Eakring and Maplebeck Meadows. Collingham Station is about 10.5 km away to the south-east.

More places to visit near Laxton Sykes

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.

0.8 km N · 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.

5.6 km N

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.

6.3 km W · Nottinghamshire

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.

8.2 km E · Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire & Derbyshire

Photo of Sherwood Forest, a National Nature Reserve near Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, central England.Iconic

Sherwood Forest

National Nature Reserve near Edwinstowe

Ancient oak forest of the Robin Hood legend.

9.7 km W

Photo of The Major Oak, a landmark near Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, central England.Highlight

The Major Oak

Landmark near Edwinstowe

Vast oak of perhaps a thousand years deep in Sherwood, its huge limbs propped, storied as Robin Hood's hideout.

10.4 km W