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Styrrup Quarry

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Styrrup Quarry is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Nottinghamshire. It is one of 63 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the county. It is the smallest of them.

For more of the same, Dyscarr Wood and Maltby Low Common are close by. For arrivals by rail, Shireoaks Station is about 10.3 km to the south-west.

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Cistercian ruin in a Capability Brown valley.

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Photo of the Chesterfield Canal, a 46-mile canal running from West Stockwith to Chesterfield, England.

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Circular white keep that inspired Ivanhoe.

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