The Skegby Trail
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Skegby Trail by Alan Walker as part of the Geograph project.
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The Skegby Trail
Image: © Alan Walker Taken: 7 Mar 2018
This northerly facing photograph is of the Skegby Trail at a point where it is crossed by a Image to Mansfield Road, Skegby (on the left) from Quarrydale Avenue (on the immediate right) . Along the trail, just beyond the barrier ahead, the route begins to descend through a fairly steep gradient in quite a deep cutting. To see a photograph of the trail taken some 270m ahead and looking back in this direction, click here:- Image Some 370m behind the viewpoint the Image crosses Stoneyford Road. - - - The Skegby Trail was built on the track bed of the former Great Northern Railway's Leen Valley Extensions branch line running between Shirebrook and Kirkby-in-Ashfield. This line gave the company access to local collieries including those at Pleasley and Shirebrook.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.13721
Longitude
-1.262578