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  This southerly facing photograph is of the Skegby Trail at a point where the old trackbed approaches the end of a fairly steep gradient rising through a deep cutting. To see a photograph of the trail taken some 270m ahead and looking back in this direction, click here:- Image For a photograph of the trail taken some 200m behind the viewpoint, click here:- Image - - - 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.

  This northerly facing photograph is of the Skegby Trail at a point where the old trackbed descends through a fairly steep gradient in quite a deep cutting. To see a photograph of the trail taken a short distance beyond the curve ahead and looking back in this direction, click here:- Image To see a photograph of the trail taken some 200m behind the viewpoint, click here:- Image - - - 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.

  This public footpath runs from the Image at a point close to Quarrydale Avenue (behind the viewpoint) to Mansfield Road, Skegby (ahead). For a photograph of the footpath taken some 350m ahead, click here Image Another public footpath runs by the hedge on the right.

Just off the main road running through Skegby is this area of woodland, streams and springs.

  This southerly facing photograph is of the Skegby Trail at a point where it rises through a fairly steep gradient in quite a deep cutting. To see a photograph of the trail taken a short distance beyond the curve ahead and looking back in this direction, click here:- Image To see another photograph of the trail taken a short distance behind the viewpoint, click here:- Image - - - 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.

  This public footpath runs from the Skegby Trail at a point close to Quarrydale Avenue (behind the viewpoint) to Mansfield Road, Skegby (ahead). A few metres ahead a gate on the left leads to a small wooded area with a Image Just beyond the gate the Image continues toward Mansfield Road. For a photograph of the footpath taken some 350m behind the viewpoint, click here Image

  This photograph was take from a Image The stream (unnamed on the OS map) is a tributary of the River Meden. See also this photograph by Andy Stephenson, which was taken in the same woodland but a little further upstream, Image

  Leading off from a Image that runs between the Skegby Trail and Mansfield Road in Skegby this path leads into a small area of woodland and a footbridge over a stream. The stream (unnamed on the OS map) is a Image

  The photograph shows the northern end of a public footpath that runs from the Skegby Trail to Mansfield Road, Skegby. To see a photograph of the path taken a few metres behind the viewpoint, click here Image Just behind the viewpoint and to the left another path leads to a Image