Entrance to the Teversal Trails Nature Reserve
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Entrance to the Teversal Trails Nature Reserve
Image: © Trevor Rickard Taken: 25 Sep 2010
This short path leads north to provide access to the Teversal Trail and a network of other paths, many using the old colliery railway routes. There is a large car park (shared with the pub) and a tea room. Created in 1988 by Ashfield District Council and Nottinghamshire County Council as the local pits were closing, the area is now a SSSI. The railways first came here in 1866 to service the growing coal mines and although closures started in the 1930s, the final route (Teversal to Pleasley) closed in 1978. Mining carried on at Silverhill until 1992 (see Image Image ), but since then nature (with a lot of landscaping help) has reclaimed the colliery sites and railway routes.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.14795
Longitude
-1.284373