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Helmsley Road, MANSFIELD, NG21 0DG

Off Helmsley Road.

The northern end of Helmsley Road peters out here shortly after a driveway - on the left - provides access into the extensive grounds of Dawn House School. Dawn House is Dawn House School is a special school for children and young people of between 5-19 years with a severe or complex communication difficulties or Asperger’s Syndrome. Ahead lies Clipstone Forest and beyond that, Strawberry Hill Heath (a 23 hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest) (SSSI).

Here the Mansfield Way (a medium distance trail) is approaching Helmsley Road where walkers wishing to continue to follow the trail need to cross this residential road and to descend on the opposite side of it to pick up former route used by the Mansfield-Southwell Railway. A 2.5 mile long railway was built from Rolleston Junction on the Nottingham-Lincoln line to Southwell in 1847. In April 1871 the line was extended to Mansfield. This extension helped further development of the coalfield east of Mansfield, so much so that the increasing amount of coal-related traffic resulted in the whole line being doubled in the 1920s. The line closed to passengers in 1959.

A left hand gateway at the northern end (i.e. the cul-de-sac end) of Helmsley Road provides access into the extensive grounds of Dawn House School. Dawn House is a special school for children and young people of between 5-19 years with a severe or complex communication difficulties or Asperger’s Syndrome. To the north of the school grounds, along a forestry track extension of Helmsley Road is a path that leads into Clipstone Forest.

Heading south towards the B6020.

For NCN Route 6 without brackets. This implying that tis is on the route. However, Route 6 does not go along here and I don't think it ever did. With brackets it should be pointing in the other direction too!