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Dist:0.2km<br/>A water skier has just left the starting jetty, towed from the aerial cableway. This allows several people at a time to enjoy a ski run without the need for boats - apart from the one just visible left of picture which is there to pick up those who get separated from their tow!
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking down on the Water Ski lake at Holme Pierrepont. The high ground has been formed from excavated materials during the construction of the regatta lake.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>The gantry supports a continuous cableway providing a water ski facility which does not require the use of boats.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is the name given to the area of former gravel workings at the eastern end of Holme Pierrepont Country Park. It derives from the way that this area was worked leaving long narrow strips of water divided by narrow banks. The formation of the ponds shows up better on the 1:25000 maps than the 1:50000
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km<br/>Part of the National Watersports Centre at Holme Pierrepont. The water ski lagoon has a slalom course and ski jump as well as a ski cableway. http://www.nationalwatersportsevents.co.uk/v4/res_website.asp?supplierCode=nwc100
©Lynne Kirton
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©Tim Heaton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Monument in St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont
©Lambert
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©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.3km<br/>The embattled tower and recessed spire of the parish church of St Edmund are typical of Nottinghamshire, but "externally the impression is of a classical church with a certain Gothic hangover...the S aisle has three-light windows with posthumous Gothic tracery", dating from 1666 (Nikolaus Pevsner).
©John Sutton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Holme Pierrepont Church spire and part of the Hall can be seen in the distance.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km<br/>The east end of the parish church of St Edmund, parts of which are classical in style and date from 1666, and a corner of the 16th-century Hall, once much larger. The house's fine Tudor brickwork was covered in fashionable stucco early in the 19th century and only resurfaced in 1975.
©John Sutton
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©Lambert
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Hall has been in the hands of the Pierrepont family since 1284. Dating from the early sixteenth century the present building is renowned as being one of the best examples of a brick built house in Nottinghamshire.
©Garth Newton
Dist:0.3km<br/>An early 16th C brick built hall.
©Peter Barr
Dist:0.3km<br/>With St Edmond's Church to the left. As early as the 12th century the Manor of Holme was in possession of the Manvers family, and the second name was added in 1280, when the sole heiress was married to Henry Pierrepont, a descendent of the Pierreponts who came to England with William the Conqueror. in France. The house was built in 1500 by William Pierrepont and is the oldest brick building in Nottinghamshire.
©Kate Jewell

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