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Hatteras Row, NUNEATON, CV10 7GH

One of the three approach footpaths to Ensors Pool. This one is from Bermuda Road.

The Bermuda Phoenix Centre is a community hall on Bermuda Road. For more on the history of Bermuda Village and Griff see Image The hall is regularly used for blood donation and a National Health Service blood donation van can be seen parked outside.

Bermuda Village was built in 1893 to house miners working at the recently-opened Griff Clara colliery. The village drew its name from the Newdigate family, the local landowners at Arbury Hall, one of whom had recently served as governor of Bermuda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda,_Warwickshire Coal was found very close to the surface at Griff and the nuneatonhistory.com website gives an overview of the many collieries recorded in the area from 1604. Early mines were little more than holes in the ground extended underground around the edges and shored up with planks ('bell pits'), and miners resorted to this method during the General Strike in 1926. Griff New Winnings or Clara Colliery was a modern mine that operated from 1891 to 1955. More recently there were opencast workings; the website reproduces photos of these from 1989. See http://www.nuneatonhistory.com/brickyards-quarries--collieries-extractive-industries.html The Bermuda Business Park occupies the site of the colliery.

Bermuda Village was built in 1893 to house miners working at the new Griff Clara colliery. The village drew its name from the Newdigate family, the local landowners at Arbury Hall, one of whom had recently served as governor of Bermuda.

A flooded pathway adjacent to Ensors Pool after the heavy rains.

A natural Arch of Branches taken beside Ensors Pool, Nuneaton after the very heavy rain Nov 2012

View of Ensor's pool from the picnic bench.

Ensors Pool

GETEC stands for the George Eliot Training & Education Centre, an in-house learning and development centre of the hospital. See the hospital website here http://www.workingwithgeh.uk/learning_and_development.php .

In particular, it was a good place to be Austropotamobius pallipes, a white-clawed crayfish, a European species which is the only crayfish native to Britain & Ireland. Once common, it has declined greatly owing to pollution and to competition from non-native crayfish species which have been introduced and which carry the fungus which causes crayfish plague, to which the white-clawed crayfish has no resistance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austropotamobius_pallipes Ensor's Pool is an abandoned clay pit with an area of just under 3.8 hectares and an average depth of 8m; it is fed by ground water. See the Natural England site at publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/5364843502632960 . It was a notable site for white-clawed crayfish and as such was declared a Special Area of Conservation under the Habitats Directive of the European Union. Alas, surveys in 2014 and 2015 found no crayfish, and they are presumed to have vanished from the pool. White-clawed crayfish survive in other parts of the county; see this plan by the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust https://www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/sites/default/files/2019-03/Whiteclawedcrayfish_May%202017_1.pdf