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Quarrydale Road, SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD, NG17 4DT

  This northerly facing photograph is of the southern end of the section of the Skegby Trail that runs between Stoneyford Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield (immediately behind the viewpoint) and Mansfield Road, Skegby. To see a photograph of the trail taken some 370m ahead, click here:- Image For a southerly facing photograph of the trail taken from the other side of Stoneyford Road, 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.

Heading south east.

  This southerly facing photograph is of the northern end of the section of the Skegby Trail that runs between Stoneyford Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield (immediately behind the viewpoint) and Priestsic Road (some 470m ahead). For a northerly facing photograph of the trail taken from the other side of Stoneyford Road, 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.

Heading south.

This decorative brickwork is on a semi-detached house on Vere Avenue. Note (a) the decorative band at first-floor window-sill level and (b) the decorative corbels supporting the eaves of the house.

No 107 Stoneyford Road is an elegant semi-detached house which has a date-stone with the inscription "AD The Elms 1904".

As seen from the road junction with Vere Avenue.

  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.

This path is part of Sutton-in-Asfield's sustainable cycle and pedestrian route to work scheme. The path follows the track bed of an old colliery railway to join the Teversal Trails north of Skegby.