Larch Farm Crossroads, Ravenshead, Notts
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Larch Farm Crossroads, Ravenshead, Notts
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 28 Oct 2014
This former farm, now a public house and restaurant with bed & breakfast facilities is shown on ancient maps that are held at nearby Newstead Abbey to have been here since at least 1825. This is a view of the B6020 (Kirkby-in-Ashfield to Blidworth road) as it joins the A60 (Nottingham to Mansfield road), with Blidworth lying several miles back behind the photographer. The car ahead is travelling in the Mansfield direction. Until 1785 however, it seems that the main highway between Nottingham and Mansfield passed through Papplewick and Newstead Abbey, rejoining its present route on the other side of Larch Farm, i.e. to the north of it. The former route, known as The King’s Way, passed through Thieves Wood - part of the Royal Wood of Lyndhurst - and it is posited that it was the all too frequent fate of unfortunate travellers that gave this wood its name.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.092156
Longitude
-1.177486