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  A walk around Grassmoor Image : Previous - (42 of 51) - Next : Image This is the access into Grassmoor Country Park https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/images/Grassmoor%20Country%20Park_tcm44-194014.pdf at the eastern end of Chapman Lane, which was once the main access road into the old Grassmoor Colliery. Some 40m behind the viewpoint and on the left is a short Image to New Street.

Reclaimed from the former Grassmoor Colliery, the park lies at the northern end of the Five Pits Trail. The Trail is a network of surfaced tracks for recreational use which mostly follows the route of the Great Central Railway. It connects the former collieries of Grassmoor, Williamthorpe, Holmewood, Pilsley and Tibshelf.

  This short public footpath (some 140m) connects Chapman Lane (at the viewpoint) with New Street. Some 40m to the right of the viewpoint is an access point to Image For a photograph of the western end of Chapman Lane, click here Image

  A walk around Grassmoor Image : Previous - (43 of 51) - Next : Image This photograph of the Grassmoor Country Park https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/images/Grassmoor%20Country%20Park_tcm44-194014.pdf was taken from a point some 100m inside the park from its entrance at the eastern end of Chapman Lane.

  A walk around Grassmoor Image : Previous - (7 of 51) - Next : Image Looking in a northerly direction view in Grassmoor Country Park https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/images/Grassmoor%20Country%20Park_tcm44-194014.pdf shows the approximate site of Sluggards Row. The term relates to a row of miners' cottages on East Street. Although the cottages were built just a few yards from Grassmoor Colliery, the occupants were always last to get into work and the name 'sluggards' stuck. https://derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/countryside/access/greenways/audiotrails/grassmoor_country_park/default.asp

  A walk around Grassmoor Image : Previous - (8 of 51) - Next : Image Looking in a north-easterly direction this is the view upon entering Grassmoor Country Park https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/images/Grassmoor%20Country%20Park_tcm44-194014.pdf from Birkin Lane. See also this photograph by:- Graham Hogg:- Image

A bridge carrying Birkin Lane, at Grassmoor Country Park, at the start of the Five Pits Trail, has been painted with a mural with themes of mining.

Reclaimed from the former Grassmoor Colliery, the park lies at the northern end of the Five Pits Trail. The Trail is a network of surfaced tracks for recreational use which mostly follows the route of the Great Central Railway. It connects the former collieries of Grassmoor, Williamthorpe, Holmewood, Pilsley and Tibshelf.