Portland Park Nature Reserve NG17, Notts.
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Portland Park Nature Reserve NG17, Notts.
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 28 Feb 2013
Part of the newly resurfaced "Top Path". An elderly resident explained to me that when he was a boy, 75+ years ago, this was a 10 foot deep quarried area known to local lads as "The Rocks" and that during the past "xyz" years it was used as an official tip and gradually filled in, before top soil was deposited on top of it. The 6th Duke of Portland gave the whole of this 10 hectare (25 acre) site to the Urban District Council in 1914 for recreational use, to commemorate his 25th wedding anniversary and his son's 21st birthday.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.090772
Longitude
-1.253965