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Hornbeam Way, NOTTINGHAM, NG17 8RL

Looking east to the railway embankment and the bridge over Lindley's Lane. Beyond the embankment are the houses on Grives Lane at the southern end of Kirkby-in-Ashfield.

A "Robin Hood Line" train heading towards Newstead, in the vicinity of the "Top Car Park" a free car park that serves the Portland Park Nature Reserve. A pedestrian has left the "Top Car Park" vicinity and is walking along Lindley's Lane. Lindley's Lane continues on the other side of the bridge in the direction of Kirkby-in-Ashfield. The 'new' houses on the other side of the railway line are situated on Sylvan Avenue.

Looking south-east to the outskirts of Kirkby-in-Ashfield with the railway embankment running along the left. This area of land between the embankment and Portland Park seems to be unused. The limestone rock under foot feels like rubble and is probably not suitable for farming.

Part of the newly resurfaced "Top Path". An elderly resident explained to me that when he was a boy, 75+ years ago, this was a 10 foot deep quarried area known to local lads as "The Rocks" and that during the past "xyz" years it was used as an official tip and gradually filled in, before top soil was deposited on top of it. The 6th Duke of Portland gave the whole of this 10 hectare (25 acre) site to the Urban District Council in 1914 for recreational use, to commemorate his 25th wedding anniversary and his son's 21st birthday.

View south towards Nuncargate. The boundary of Portland Park is on the right.

The resurfacing of this, the "Top Car Park", seems almost complete. An elderly resident explained to me that when he was a boy, 75+ years ago, this was a 10 foot deep quarried area known to local lads as "The Rocks" and that during the past "xyz" years it was used as a tip and gradually filled in, before top soil was deposited on top of it. The 6th Duke of Portland gave the whole of this 10 hectare (25 acre) site to the Urban District Council in 1914 for recreational use, to commemorate his 25th wedding anniversary and his son's 21st birthday.

From the country park looking east along the line of pylons south of Kirkby-in-Ashfield.

Lindley's Lane and the Portland Park Nature Reserve lie behind the photographer. This is Grives Lane, a through-road in the past between the B6021 (Kingsway-Nottingham Road) and Lindley's Lane but now only accessible by agricultural vehicles, walkers and cyclists. A railway embankment lies to the left and the level crossing ahead gives trains on the "Robin Hood Line" (the Mansfield-Nottingham service) the right of way.