Places to see in ( Edwinstowe - UK )
Places to see in ( Edwinstowe - UK )
Edwinstowe is a large village in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England, with associations to the Robin Hood and Maid Marian legends. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 5,188.
The village name meaning Edwin's resting place recalls that King (and Saint) Edwin of Northumbria's body was hidden in the church after he was killed in the Battle of Hatfield Chase, near Doncaster, probably in 633. The battle against King Penda of Mercia occurred near the present-day hamlet of Cuckney, some five miles north-west of modern Edwinstowe.
Edwinstowe is referenced twice in the Domesday Book. It records that there were five households, in addition to one priest and his four bordars, living in the hamlet in 1086.
Legend has it that Robin Hood married Maid Marian in St Mary's Church. Edwinstowe's present-day popularity is due mainly to the presence near the village of the Major Oak, a feature in the folklore of Robin Hood.
Thoresby Colliery served as Edwinstowe's main source of employment until July 2015, when the mine was permanently closed. The loss of the colliery, one of the last remaining and part of a national closure of the British deep-mined coal industry, has left tourism as the primary branch of the local economy. Nottinghamshire County Council's nearby Sherwood Forest Visitors' Centre is scheduled for redevelopment and improvement, with a contract awarded to RSPB, intended for completion by late 2017 at a projected cost of £5.3 million.
Edwinstowe has six pubs: the Black Swan, the Dukeries Lodge, Forest Lodge, Hammer and Wedge, the Manvers and the Royal Oak. Other catering facilities include the Edwinstowe Bistro Restaurant, the Cottage Tea Rooms, and Launay's Restaurant.
Environmental concerns are addressed at the Maun Valley Project Conservation Area.
Edwinstowe had a railway station between 1897 and 1955. A goods line remains. The nearest railway station today is at Mansfield (6 miles, 10 km). The village is served by twice-hourly, daytime Monday–Saturday bus services to Mansfield and Ollerton, six buses Monday–Saturday to Worksop, and one bus Monday–Friday to Nottingham. Services run twice a week to Newark and once a week to Lincoln.
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Visit Nottinghamshire
Welcome to Nottinghamshire - the home of Robin Hood, Sherwood Forest and so much more.
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Sherwood Forest and the Major Oak - FULL VIDEO TOUR (Nottinghamshire, UK)
Taking a trip to Sherwood Forest and seeing the Major Oak! It's literally 800–1000 years old! That's three times older than America! haha! It's still living, would you believe, and was voted Tree of the Year in 2014 (Whatever that may entail!).
Sherwood Forest is a royal forest in Nottinghamshire, England, famous by its historic association with the legend of Robin Hood.
The area has been wooded since the end of the Ice Age (as attested by pollen sampling cores). Today, Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve encompasses 423.2 hectares,1,045 acres (4.23 km2), surrounding the village of Edwinstowe, the site of Thoresby Hall.
The forest that most people associate with Sherwood Forest is actually named Birklands and Bilhaugh. It is a remnant of an older, much larger, royal hunting forest, which derived its name from its status as the shire (or sher) wood of Nottinghamshire, which extended into several neighbouring counties (shires), bordered on the west along the River Erewash and the Forest of East Derbyshire. When the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086, the forest covered perhaps a quarter of Nottinghamshire in woodland and heath subject to the forest laws.
The Major Oak is a large English oak (Quercus robur) near the village of Edwinstowe in the midst of Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England. According to local folklore, it was Robin Hood's shelter where he and his merry men slept. It weighs an estimated 23 tons, has a girth of 33 feet (10 metres), a canopy of 92 feet (28 metres), and is about 800–1000 years old. In a 2002 survey, it was voted Britain's favourite tree. In 2014 it was voted 'England's Tree of the Year' by a public poll by the Woodland Trust, receiving 18% of the votes.
It received its present name from Major Hayman Rooke's description of it in 1790.
There are several theories concerning why it became so huge and oddly shaped:
The Major Oak may be several trees that fused together as saplings.
The tree was possibly pollarded, a system of tree management that enabled foresters to grow more than one crop of timber from a single tree, causing the trunk to grow large and thick. However, there is only limited evidence for this theory as none of the other trees in the surrounding area were pollarded.
Since the Victorian era, its massive limbs have been supported partially by an elaborate system of scaffolding.
In 2002, someone attempted to illegally sell acorns from the Major Oak on an internet-based auction website.
In 2003, in Dorset a plantation was started of 260 saplings grown from acorns of the Major Oak. The purpose was to provide publicity for an internet-based study of the Major Oak, its history, photographic record, variation in size and leafing of the saplings, comparison of their DNA, and an eventual public amenity.
The Major Oak was featured on the 2005 television programme Seven Natural Wonders as one of the wonders of the Midlands.
The formation sign of the 46th Infantry Division of the British Army in the Second World War was the Major Oak. Among the units of the division was a battalion of the Sherwood Foresters.
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Pit Village and Colliery a Bit of Old England
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The Mahogony Drift Mine is original to Beamish, having opened in 1855 and after closing, was brought back into use in 1921 to transport coal from Beamish Park Drift to Beamish Cophill Colliery. It opened as a museum display in 1979. Included in the display is the winding engine and a short section of trackway used to transport tubs of coal to the surface, and a mine office. Visitor access into the mine shaft is by guided tour.The colliery features both a standard gauge and narrow gauge railway - the former representing how coal was transported to its onward destination, and the latter typically used by Edwardian collieries for internal purposes. The standard gauge railway is laid out to serve the deep mine - wagons being loaded by dropping coal from the heapstead - and runs out of the yard to sidings laid out along the northern edge of the Pit Village.
On the standard gauge railway there are two engine sheds in the colliery yard, the smaller brick, wood and metal structure being an operational building, the larger brick built structure being presented as Beamish Engine Works, a reconstruction of an engine shed formerly at Beamish 2nd Pit. Used for locomotive and stock storage, it is a long, single track shed featuring a servicing pit for part of its length, visitors can walk along the full length in a segregated corridor. A third engine shed has been constructed at the southern end of the yard (i.e. the other side of the heapstead to the other two sheds), also in brick (lower half) and corrugated iron, and is used for both narrow and standard gauge vehicles (on one road), although it is not connected to either system - instead being fed by low-loaders and used for long term storage only.
The narrow gauge railway is serviced by a corrugate iron engine shed, and is being expanded to eventually encompass several sidings.
There are a number of industrial steam locomotives (including rare examples by Stephen Lewin, from Seaham, and Black, Hawthorn & Co), and many chaldron wagons (the region’s traditional type of colliery railway rolling stock, and which became a symbol of Beamish Museum). The locomotive Coffee Pot No 1 is often in steam during the summer.Alongside the colliery is the pit village, representing life in the mining communities that grew alongside coal production sites in the North East, many having come into existence solely because of the industry, such as Seaham Harbour, West Hartlepool, Esh Winning and Bedlington.Miner's Cottages
The row of six miner's cottages in Francis Street represent the tied housing provided by colliery owners to mine workers. Relocated to the museum in 1976, they were originally built in the 1860s in Hetton-le-Hole by Hetton Coal Company. They feature the common layout of a single-storey with a kitchen to the rear, the main room the house, and parlour to the front, rarely used (although it was common for both rooms to be used for sleeping, with disguised folding dess beds common), and with children sleeping in attic spaces upstairs. In front are long gardens, used for food production, with associated sheds. An outdoor toilet and coal bunker were in the rear yards, and beyond the cobbled back lane to their rear are assorted sheds used for cultivation, repairs and hobbies. Chalkboard slates attached to the rear wall were used by the occupier to tell the mine's knocker up when they wished to be woken for their next shift.
No.2 is presented as a Methodist family's home, featuring good quality Pitman's mahogany furniture; No.3 is presented as occupied by a second generation well off Irish Catholic immigrant family featuring many items of value (so they could be readily sold off in times of need) and an early 1990s range; No.3 is presented as more impoverished than the others with just a simple convector style Newcastle oven, being inhabited by a miner's widow allowed to remain as her son is also a miner, and supplementing her income doing laundry and making/mending for other families. All the cottages feature examples of the folk art objects typical of mining communities. Also included in the row is an office for the miner's paymaster. In the rear alleyway of the cottages is a communal bread oven, which were commonplace until miner's cottages gradually obtained their own kitchen ranges. They were used to bake traditional breads such as the Stottie, as well as sweet items, such as tea cakes. With no extant examples, the museum's oven had to be created from photographs and oral history.School[edit]
The school opened in 1992, and represents the typical board school. in the educational system of the era .
London Walk: Oxford Street and Oxford Circus, Great Portland Street, the BBC, Warren Street
On the fringes of Fitzrovia! The most interesting route between London tube stations is surely the one you walk! This walk is between Oxford Circus tube station and Warren Street tube station. The walk crosses Oxford Street into Great Portland Street and then heads north with Fitzrovia and all its cute little buildings, restaurants and coffee shops peeking at us through the tree-lined streets to our right. Distracted by some music I cross Great Portland Street and find myself at the BBC’s official London residence – Broadcasting House – where rehearsals are taking place for The One Show. Catching a glimpse of the Landau Hotel, I retrace my steps back to Great Portland Street and continue north for a while longer until I can no longer resist a bit of a detour deeper into Fitzrovia where the Fitzrovia Hotel awaits and then the Holiday Inn London Regent’s Park. A little more wandering takes us to Euston Road where a quick glance to the left brings us views of Regent’s Park in the distance before we turn right towards Warren Street and our final destination at Warren Street tube station situated at the far end of Tottenham Court Road.
Route timestamps:
00:25 Oxford Circus including Oxford Circus tube station with Regent Street to the left
00:57 Oxford Street looking west
01:09 Heading east along Oxford Street
01:32 Crossing Argyle Street
02:40 Entering Great Portland Street
02:53 Crossing Market Place
03:19 Crossing Great Castle Street
04:19 Crossing Margaret Street
04:57 Crossing Little Portland Street
05:49 Crossing Mortimer Street
06:08 Crossing Great Titchfield Street
06:42 Crossing Riding House Street
07:34 Crossing Langham Street and then following Langham Street west towards Hallam Street as I briefly detour to the BBC
08:29 Hallam Street
09:20 Broadcasting House, home of the BBC
10:08 The Landau Hotel, Langham Place
10:19 All Souls, Langham Place
12:14 Return to Great Portland Street
13:58 Crossing New Cavendish Street
14:05 BT Tower in the distance
15:22 Clipstone Street where I detour into Fitzrovia
15:49 Crossing Bolsover Street which I then follow north towards Regent’s Park
17:08 Grange Fitzrovia Hotel
17:42 Carburton Street
17:45 Holiday Inn Regent’s Park
18:27 Crossing Great Titchfield Street
19:19 Cleveland Street along which I head north towards Euston Road
20:12 Crossing Greenwell Street
21:29 Euston Road
21:35 View towards Regent’s Park, Great Portland Street tube station and One Marylebone, I then turn back on myself along Euston Road
22:49 Conway Street
23:14 Warren Street
24:03 Crossing Fitzroy Street
23:34 Crossing Grafton Mews
25:12 Crossing Whitfield Street
26:30 Tottenham Court Road looking south towards Oxford Street
26:41 Warren Street tube station
27:00 Unexpected opportunity to do a Thai cookery lesson in the Google building, so there are a few pics and a lovely view across King’s Cross
My equipment:
Gimbal - Zhiyun Smooth.
Recorded on Samsung S6 mobile phone - I do the immersive first-person walks with these.
For vlogging to camera, I use a Canon G7X Mark ii, although on this occasion I am using a Samsung mobile phone.
Class 66 66727 seen between Edwinstowe & Clipstone East Junction 24/04/2012
THYNGHOWE VIKING ASSEMBLY SITE SHERWOOD FOREST
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Five years ago this mound-like feature was rediscovered in thick woodland by history lover and former teacher Lynda Mallett, along with husband Stuart Reddish and John Wood, all from Rainworth, using an original perambulation document dated to 1816.
Their research has also suggested that it may once have marked the boundary between the Anglo Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria.
After reporting the intriguing find to local history society members in Clipstone, Warsop and Edwinstowe, a new group was formed to work with forest chiefs to investigate the site's significant history and encourage wider community appreciation and involvement. A topographical survey will take place this autumn and there will be open days for the general public.
River Maun Part 1
A look at the River Maun through Ashfield using a mix of video and still shots.
Aerial Aspect Imaging visits Phoenix Microlights at Watnall, Nottinghamshire
We took our Phantom 2 quadcopter for some testing at Watnall Airstrip and got some great close-up footage while we were there. Many thanks to Brian!
Music: The Second Coming Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Listed Building.
This was fun!
abandoned building in nottingham, see we decided to take a look, would be a great place to shoot a zombie film, and is just as scary.