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A bit of private construction behind the landscaped gardens.
©Patrick
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Curious sculpture in the ornamental gardens.
©Patrick
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Originally the home of the Ashwell family, now council offices for Nottingham City Council, principally covering recreation and leisure.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km north<br/>The Grange was built in 1874 for Henry Ashwell. It was bought by Nottingham City Council in 1921 with a donation from Sir Jesse Boot (of Boots the Chemists).
©Patrick
Dist:0.3km north<br/>This climbs up from Woodthorpe to the Mapperley ridge, getting steeper as it gets higher.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Originally the estate of the house (Woodthorpe Grange), now a public park with football pitches and pitch and putt golf.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Now covered by residential housing, in the sixties there were several ponds in this area resulting from the brick works where I used to collect newts.
©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.4km north<br/>An amusing representation of a steam locomotive emerging from a bridge, within a bridge. This was a genuine railway bridge, where the Nottingham Suburban Railway (see information board left - [[1198270]] ) passed under Woodthorpe Drive.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This is the Mapperley side, near Sherwood Vale
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Outside the Bread & Bitter in Mapperley, this was once a bakery but is now a pub run by the Castle Rock Brewery.
©N Harrison
Dist:0.5km north<br/>In Woodthorpe Grange Park, to commemorate the Nottingham Suburban Railway [[1198270]]. This view provides a more detailed look than [[1198264]]
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.5km north<br/>This small area of coppicey woodland was originally the cutting at the northern end of Ashwell Tunnel under Woodthorpe Grange Park. The cutting has been filled in so that it would be difficult to tell that there was once a railway here, if it was not for the bridge at the end where Woodthorpe Drive crosses.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.5km north<br/>This tells the story of the railway and the park quite as well as I can!
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.5km north<br/>A reminder of the days when the Nottingham Suburban Railway ran through the park via the Ashwell Tunnel. The railway was opened in 1889 and was built to serve the brickworks of Mapperley and Thorneywood but passenger trains were also ran. By 1901 passenger services were past their heyday with competition from the start of electric tram service into Nottingham and ceasing completely thirty years later. The brickworks traffic continued until 1951 when the line was finally closed.
©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.5km north<br/>at the top of Woodthorpe Drive and marking the boundary between the City of Nottingham and Arnold Town
©Tom Courtney

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    For those of you who aren't aware, there is a WI in the village which meets on the 4th Wednesday of the month at the Community Centre on Moor Road. Just turn up at 7.15pm …
    chart in Bestwood Village, Sunday 14 March, 2010

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    Security staff had to lock themselves in a safe room while offenders smashed their way into a Nottinghamshire building society.
    Friday 19 March, 2010

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    Friday 19 March, 2010

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