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Common Lane, MANSFIELD, NG19 8RZ

The farm with water-logged fields, seen from the Archaeological Way, west of Pleasley Park.

Looking west to a training area and paddocks just south of the B6407.

This track is now a bridleway but the 1940s OS map shows it as a road which lead to Pleasley Park and the cotton mills there. Image The stonework to the left of the track is an old railway bridge support.

Entrance to a country dwelling, on the B6407 between Pleasley and Upper Langwith.

Bridleway and long-distance footpath seen here from the B6407 Road as the track begins its descent into Pleasley Vale. The stone pillar on the right of picture in front of the trees marks the route of a defunct railway line.

  Just behind the viewpoint Forge Lane crosses the B6407, the Pleasley to Shirebrook road. Ahead the lane leads to Pleasley Vale. This metalled surface is one of two short sections of Forge Lane that remain in this condition, the other section being adjacent to some industrial units near Pleasley Vale. Although this is now a bridleway an OS map dated 1937-61 from the National Library of Scotland https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16&lat=53.1841&lon=-1.2291&layers=10&right=osm shows Forge Lane as being a single-track road between the B6407 and Pleasley Vale. *** See also this photograph by Michael Patterson:- Image, which shows the same section of Forge Lane but which was taken some twelve years earlier.

  This abutment is all that remains of a bridge that once carried the Leen Valley Extension Railway over Image The Leen Valley Extension Railway was built by the Great Northern Railway to provide the company with access to the coal workings in the area. The railway ran from Kirkby South Junction to Langwith Junction. Reference:- https://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=316103 . An OS map dated 1937-61 from the National Library of Scotland https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=15&lat=53.1853&lon=-1.2347&layers=10&right=osm shows the point at which the railway crossed Forge Lane. Today the old track-bed provides the basis for the Image, including a branch line that ran to the Silverhill and Teversal collieries and now forms the Image *** See also these photographs by Chris Morgan:- Image, James Hill:- Image and John Slater:- Image

This is what appears to be the remains of a dismantled railway bridge. The 1:50,000 Modern Day Landranger™ map clearly shows the "dismtd rly" line that crosses over this area.