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Mansfield Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG15 8FH

Located seven miles from Nottingham on the Mansfield Road. Reputed to have been built by local inhabitants to provide a location to prevent sheep straying from the surrounding farmland towards Nottingham. It is now the head office of a large local firm of housebuilders. 2013 postcript: This http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3794238 is a classic example of Geograph's capacity to record change over time.

See Image For a while it was the head office of a large local firm of housebuilders (Standen Homes), but it has been To Let now for some time.

Roadside pub restaurant on the Mansfield Road, seven miles from Nottingham.

The stationary traffic is waiting to pull out into the A60 (the main Nottingham-Mansfield road) at this 'Seven Mile Inn junction'. The other traffic is heading towards one of the turnings - within 2 minutes - leading to one of the following: the Police Headquarters, Sherwood Lodge, The Park Private Hospital Burntstump Country Park or The Burntstump Public House. If individual drivers continue onwards past these they are likely to be using Burntstump Hill as a link to the A614 road (the Nottingham - Doncaster road via Ollerton).

Mature Scots Pine trees in this pub's car park. Mature specimens grow to a height of 35m (115 ft). The A60 road (the main Nottingham-Mansfield road) passes the front of this establishment.

The provision of traffic lights at this junction would not appear to be necessary simply from looking at the map, as the road joining the main Mansfield Road at this point is a relatively minor one.

A small pile of snow from a fall on Boxing Day 2014 sitting at the entrance to the car park of Seven Mile Inn. Passing it is the A60 road (the main Nottingham-Mansfield road). The car in the foreground is travelling towards Nottingham whilst a motor-cyclist can be seen turning left into Burntstump Hill, off which can be found Burntstump Country Park. Walkers on the Robin Hood Way (Long Distance Trail) use these traffic lights to cross from Burntstump Country Park to another rural section of it that can be picked up immediately after a road bridge that crosses the former Calverton Colliery Railway track bed 3-4 minutes walk ahead.

These lodges, situated obliquely opposite the Seven Mile Inn (currently a steak house), are situated at the former entrance to a drive leading to Sherwood Lodge. The lodge on the right - a private residence - is dated 1895, whilst the other one - currently in use as a Police Federation (Trade Union) local office - is dated 1903. There is no longer any access into or out of the site onto the road seen here, i.e. the A60 Mansfield to Nottingham road. The original Sherwood Lodge (c. 1790) was the home of the Seely family of politicians, industrialists, landowners and writers. However, the grand house was eventually demolished and replaced by a building - or buildings - that became the former headquarters of the National Coal Board. During the 1970s the premises were used by the Nottinghamshire Police Force. However, more recently a three-storey building costing £18.5 million has been built on the site as the joint headquarters of the Nottinghamshire Police Force and the Nottinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service premises that are accessible from nearby Burntstump Hill.