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Part of the Robin Hood Way between Bulwell and Watnall where it skirts Hucknall aerodrome.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.1km<br/>Many of the trees in the wood show multiple trunks which suggests that it was coppiced at one stage.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>One of a pair of ponds popular for coarse fishing. "No barbed hooks allowed".
©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.2km<br/>Seen from the Robin Hood Way near Hucknall aerodrome.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>The rough patch in the foreground appears to have been part of the old perimeter road.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km<br/>The runway is no longer used. The distant buildings are part of the Rolls Royce testing facility. The original 'Flying Bedsteads' which made use of vertical thrust jets later developed in the successful Harrier jump jet was tested here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Thrust_Measuring_Rig
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km<br/>A late sown crop still hardly grown compared with http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1876411 , already in head.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km<br/>Once used by Rolls Royce for testing, the main runway is now out of use. The local flying club maintains two grass runways to the right of the far end of the main surfaced runway.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km<br/>An old established pedestrian route, as indicated by the fact that it is bounded by hedges.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km<br/>The established right of way used to carry straight on here but was diverted to cross the motorway using the same bridge as the B6009 on Long Lane.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km<br/>Now used as a private fishery.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km<br/>Some of the older barns, now becoming derelict. The farm was originally Bulwell Wood Hall.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km<br/>No longer in use as a farm. It would be interesting to know the origin of the name as there are no pools or stream adjacent. Postscript 2011 Thanks to an email from Chris Jordan whose ancestors owned the farm, some light can be shed on the name. Until around 1900, the farm was called Hellhole Farm (clearly shown as such on OS maps), which is conjectured to have derived from Shiloh. The local vicar* clearly campaigned to have the name changed to something less derogatory, and was obviously successful as the 1900 OS maps show the current name. What the maps also show is that as Hellhole Farm, it lay several hundred metres to the north of the current location, on the edge of Starth Wood. One wonders whether the change of location was partly done to ensure that the old name did not linger! * The source of this information can be found here http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/vonhube1910/watnall4.htm
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.5km<br/>The farm itself is no more, only the silos visible remain. The track also serves as a public bridleway.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.5km<br/>Its presence here is a mystery as there is no building for some way around. It may have originally been used by miners from Watnall Colliery, which closed in 1950.
©Alan Murray-Rust

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