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Note the extra sign tied onto the post. It warns that it is illegal to ride motorbikes, quad-bikes and mopeds without written permission along this farm road. The sign says: Are You Driving This Community Crazy? Offroaders beware! Unless you have permission and paperwork you could be PROSECUTED and HAVE YOUR BIKE TAKEN AWAY, it could even be CRUSHED. Stay safe, Stay legal
©Kate Jewell
Dist:0.2km<br/>Snapped travelling northbound approaching junction 26. No matter how fast we drove we couldn't get under it!
©Graham Hogg
Dist:0.2km<br/>This wall, bounding the Strelley Hall grounds, is constructed of Bulwell Stone, a local very impure, coarse grained and flaggy magnesium limestone. It is too soft for most aggregate purposes, but serves as a good ornamental building and rockery stone. This photograph shows clearly the effects of weather and ivy growth on the soft stone over a couple of hundred years. Bulwell Stone was used extensively in the past as a local building stone. Walk round the older parts of Nottingham and nearly every front garden or yard is enclosed by a Bulwell Stone wall. Notable instances of its use include [[4574]], [[659723]] and the lower courses of the Houses of Parliament.
©Kate Jewell
Dist:0.2km<br/>Main Street is actually the only street in Strelley and, although there is a serviceable farm road, there is no public vehicular right of way over the motorway to Swingate. Note the diamond shaped ventilation holes in the small brick barn on the right.
©Kate Jewell
Dist:0.2km<br/>The road through the village ends in a bridleway. A 1950s family/childhood treat was to take the corporation bus to Strelley terminus, then walk through the village and over the fields to Kimberley, returning to the city on a blue Midland General bus. Things have changed since then, and just ahead the path - now the Robin Hood Way, according to the map - doglegs over the M1.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is as far as you can go if you're driving. The Robin Hood Way long distance path follows this farm road over the motorway, (see [[604271]]), through to Swingate in [[SK5043]]. Lodge Farm Cottage is on the left.
©Kate Jewell
Dist:0.2km<br/>The substantial network of bridleways in the area is matched by an abundance of horses.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>With an unusual modern extension at this end.
©Trevor Rickard
Dist:0.2km<br/>The new fourth lane has been completed here, but the speed limits are still in place and the inside lanes and hard shoulders are coned off.
©Trevor Rickard
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking north from the bridleway bridge on the way to Turkey Fields Farm, [[604248]] and [[607877]].
©Kate Jewell
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking north along Main Street, which is a no through road. There are two vehicles just ahead waiting for the delivery truck to reverse back from Home Farm and then turn around.
©Trevor Rickard
Dist:0.2km<br/>It's hard to believe the M1 is only a few good stone's-throws away to the west of this peaceful lane - see [[[2421247]]].
©John Sutton
Dist:0.3km<br/>View eastwards as the track meets Main Street. Entrance to Strelley Hall on the other side of the road.
©Trevor Rickard
Dist:0.3km<br/>View west with the motorway bridge just beyond the trees.
©Trevor Rickard
Dist:0.3km<br/>There are switch boxes at the top and bottom of this substantial flight of stairs
©Alan Murray-Rust

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