Grotto, Carr Bank Park, Mansfield, Notts.
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Grotto, Carr Bank Park, Mansfield, Notts.
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 8 Jan 2015
Beyond the eastern boundary fence of this car park (off Windmill Lane), shared by The Mansfield Manor Hotel and Carr Bank Park, is this Grade II-listed early-C19th garden grotto that was restored in the late C20th. It is of limestone rubble stabilised with cement and partly covered with earth. It is in the form of a curved tunnel with this conical shaped entrance on its west side. Its east entrance/exit, situated in the formal rose garden (now part of the park), takes the form of a segmental arch. The structure is thought to have been built as part of the house's gardens that were created on three sides of it, excluding of course the side occupied by the converted stable block parallel with Windmill Lane.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.150039
Longitude
-1.189539