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Mayfield Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG17 8LW

Viewed from Pinxton Lane.

Heading east to the Park Lane (B6018) junction.

View westward from the B6018 road at Castle Hill near Kirkby-in-Ashfield, towards Chesterfield and Sheffield along the course of the ex-GCR Sheffield - Nottingham - London etc. main line! The station and this section of the line had been closed from 4/3/63 and the area has been totally transformed since the 1980s' closure of the numerous collieries and associated railways: in the past there had been five railway stations in this immediate area. (This station had been 'Kirkby & Pinxton' until 1/3/25).

Used to be called the Limeburners.

I think the route only has this name because of houses which have been built to the right which require this road as access. It follows the line of a former railway.

Viewed from Pinxton Road.

For a 2010 photo of the pub with a different colour-scheme, please see Image This pub was previously called the Limeburners Arms Inn. It was the venue for the inquest for the 10 miners killed in the shaft cage accident at Bentinck Colliery on 30 June 1915 (see http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/Fatalities/Notts/Notts-B1.html ). The old name of the pub makes me wonder why there would have been the need for lime at this point. I suspect that the building of the London extension to the Great Central Railway in the 1890's generated a big demand for building materials (including lime). This demand could have been easily met here because there is an exposure of Permian limestone (Cadeby Formation Dolostone) about 200 metres to the north-east of the pub (see British Geological Survey map). The railway line ran just to the north of the pub and there was a railway station, Kirkby Bentinck, also about 200 metres away (see http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/k/kirkby_bentinck/index.shtml ).

Looking west along Laburnum Avenue to the junction with Pinxton Road. Bentinck Town was named after the Duke of Portland (family name Cavendish-Bentinck), who owned the land and mines in this area and whose family were prominent British politicians. The name is originally Dutch. Hans William, Baron Bentinck, (later 1st Earl of Portland) was originally sent to England in 1677 to solicit for William of Orange the hand of Mary, daughter of the Duke of York (later James II). He was instrumental in the Dutch invasion and the reign of William and Mary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bentinck,_1st_Earl_of_Portland

Situated on the road between Kirkby in Ashfield and Selston.