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Ferndale, MANSFIELD, NG18 2RP

The River Maun has been canalised through the park. The modern 'Water Meadows' leisure complex indicates what the area would have been before urbanisation.

A lovely "green space" in Mansfield that has seen a recent revamp and a Green Flag award. The only fault I can pick is that the huge concrete pipes and old blue tractor that I spent many happy hours playing in and on as a child have been removed. Still, I doubt that they would have gone with the current scheme.

With the town centre in the distance this is a view across allotment gardens off Forest Road (the B6030) in the direction of Baum's Lane.

One of several bridges that crosses the ‘busy’ River Maun in Titchfield Park. In 1914 it was renamed, from “Nottingham Road Pleasure Grounds” (a.k.a. The Water Meadows), to mark the coming of age of the Duke of Portland's son, the Marquis of Titchfield. Opened in 1881, today the park offers ornamental gardens, playground areas, a multi-purpose games area, a pavilion, a performance area, pétanque pistes and a meadow area for informal recreation. The riverside walk forms part of the Maun Valley Trail.

The 'busy' River Maun making its way through Titchfield Park, its two sides being linked by several bridges. This fairly extensive plot of land has been a recreational area since 1880. It was formerly known as Nottingham Road Pleasure Grounds or The Water Meadows. It was renamed Titchfield Park in 1914, to mark the coming of age of the Duke of Portland's son, Marquis of Titchfield. This green corridor forms part of the Maun Valley Trail. Nottingham Road (the A60) semi-encompasses the park, behind and to the left of this shot.

On the site of a paddling pool which had the same semicircular shape. The park originally had a bandstand, but maps show that this had disappeared by the 1950s.

The club incorporates up to 15 international size pistes on the site of a former lawn bowls green.

St Mark's Church is seen here from inside to one of the Nottingham Road (A60) access points into and out of Titchfield Park. The building - in stone - by Temple Moore, was opened in 1897. It was built on the site of a temporary iron building that had succeeded the 'Navvy Mission' (for workers employed in building the railway line to Worksop), and which had served as the parish church of St Mark from 1889, when the parish was created. The building consists of nave, side chapel and a small tower at the south east corner containing one bell by Mears & Stainbank, cast in 1892. The exterior is almost conventional neo-Perpendicular, plain but dignified.