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Balderton Hall was built in 1840 & was home to some of the area's most important and influential figures. Balderton Hall had seven bedrooms three dressing rooms and nine servants rooms, & was surrounded 135 acres of parkland.In the 1930s the site was developed to form Balderton Hospital for the care of people with learning disabilities.The hospital closed in 1993 and is now a growing housing estate.The Hall is now used as offices.
©Geoff Dunn
Balderton Hall was built in 1840 & was home to some of the area's most important and influential figures. Balderton Hall had seven bedrooms three dressing rooms and nine servants rooms, & was surrounded 135 acres of parkland.In the 1930s the site was developed to form Balderton Hospital for the care of people with learning disabilities.The hospital closed in 1993 and is now a growing housing estate, but the clock tower remains
©Geoff Dunn
The new suburb of Fernwood likes to think of itself as a village and so has a Village Hall.
©Jonathan Thacker
The One Stop shop is the only retail premise in Fernwood apart from a hair salon.
©Jonathan Thacker
It is in the grounds of Balderton Hall that the new suburb of Fernwood is being developed.
©Jonathan Thacker
Dist:0.1km<br/>Built in 1840 for local banker Thomas Spragging Godfrey, it served as a family home until 1936 when work started on building a hospital in the parkland. It was officer's accommodation for RAF Balderton during the war and in October 1957 it became the administrative block of the hospital for patients with learning disabilities until it closed in 1993. It is currently offices in a large development of over 1,000 new homes on the former hospital site.
©Richard Croft
Dist:0.1km<br/>This and the Village Hall are as yet the only community buildings in Fernwood. A school is planned and part of it is due to open in 2012.
©Jonathan Thacker
Dist:0.2km<br/>New development in Fernwood
©Richard Croft
Dist:0.3km<br/>The old water tower to Balderton Hospital, now the centrepiece of Fernwood village that has grown up on the site, likely to be developed as a bar / restaurant as the community grows
©Richard Croft
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Clock Tower is a point de vue in a piece of formal planning which is untypical of Fernwood.
©Jonathan Thacker
Dist:0.4km<br/>New buildings on the growing Fernwood Business Park near the A1 south of Balderton
©Richard Croft
Dist:0.5km<br/>New houses in the new parish of Fernwood on the former Balderton hospital site
©Richard Croft
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©Nigel Chadwick
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©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.5km<br/>The middle sign advises which bits of Newark you don't turn off for here.
©Robin Webster

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