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Thieves Wood

(Average user rating4 unrated 3.8/5)
 
Thieves Wood car park offers access into the wood. Throughout the week in the car park is a concessions stand serving hot and cold drinks along with freshly cooked food.  Please be a responsible dog owner and clear up after your dog.

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How to get there:

Kirkby In Ashfield is the nearest town or village.

Thieves Wood has two car parks off the B6139 Kirkby in Ashfield to Ravenshead road.

OS Grid Reference: SK544566
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Thieves Wood Car Park

User Comments

5 Stars 5 Stars

I love Thieves Wood, I walk my dog there. Howevere I find that the lack of bins in the car park area is disgusting and the posters telling to flick your dog poo into the bushes just dreadful. I would like to walk in the forest with my grand daughter but its just too full of dog muck, visible and unseen. Most dog owners are in the habit of picking up their dog mess... so why not provide a bin in the car park area so people can do this, and therefore make the wood a much cleaner and even nicer place

Ruth, 20/Feb/2012
5 Stars 5 Stars

Great wood for walking and riding your bike but take care as some of the dog walkers feel they own this wood and also avoid the dog trail as it is full of dog mess. Cafe is brilliant and very friendly and cheap. Some people hate cycle riding in the wood so take care how you react to them and their dogs be polite and stop it is the best option. I use this wood at least five times a week and just wish we all could get along and I do not have to have dog mess to cope with and people having sex at night.

Jonathan Annable, 29/Aug/2011
4 Stars 4 Stars

Beautiful woods and pathways, however as others have said it is spoilt by dog mess and horse mess on the paths mainly near to the car park, the paths get better the further out you walk. I avoid the dog loop as its disgusting! Fabulous food stall selling 'real' coffee, cappuccino etc

Mrs B, 9/Aug/2011
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