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Willow Gardens, SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD, NG17 5JF

By this modern house Sheepwash Lane becomes a footpath giving access to Lucknow Drive under King's Mill Road, the modern A38.

One of the world's earliest powered mills was built here in 1740 and some of the early buildings associated with the trade can be seen here.

According to a plaque on the access road to this house, Dobson's Mill was named in commemoration of the original mill built by Samuel Unwin in 1740 and one of the first cotton mills to use powered machinery. Samuel Unwin died in 1841 and, after a succession of owners, the site was sold in 1920 to William Francis Dobson and Edward Josiah Allsop. The Dobsons retained ownership until its closure in the early 1980's.

located on Coxmore Road, Sutton Forest side

An East Midlands Trains service heads over the level crossing at Sutton Junction on its way to Nottingham. The line was reopened to passengers in stages during the 1990s having originally closed as a victim of the Beeching cuts in 1964. The route was always important for coal, but this traffic has now all but ceased with the demise of deep mining in the area, leaving only the passenger trains. Just to the south of the crossing was the site of Sutton Junction station where once the 'Penny Emma' service gave a link to the town centre. When the line was reopened it was decided not to rebuild the station here but to site a new one - Sutton Parkway - further south.

Despite the road's name, anybody expecting to find Sutton's station here will be disappointed. In fact, until 1964 Sutton Junction station was located just to the south of the level crossing; as the name implies it was a junction with, until 1951, a short branch to the centre of Sutton. The branch passenger service was affectionately known as the 'Penny Emma'. When the line reopened to passengers in 1995 it was decided not to reopen a station at this location but instead Sutton Parkway was opened further to the south