Oxclose Wood

This young woodland provides an excellent place to explore enjoying great views over the local countryside. Its surfaced paths are suitable for walkers and cyclists, and its two waymarked trails make it easy to navigate around the site. A lovely place to walk, reflect, be creative and simply enjoy the beauty you walk among!

Oxclose Wood was once a site of colliery spoil, now transformed into a community woodland. The coal from this region was not as easy to mine as it was around the Chesterfield area, meaning that deep shafts had to be sunk. Such a process produced a lot of waste material, or "gangue" which grew into the sizeable spoil heaps that were commonly seen around the area. A process of coal washing, landscaping, fertilsing and planting has enabled this beautiful woodland to develop and flourish.

Today you can take a stroll around or cycle along a network of paths within the woodland and, depending on the season, see a whole host of wildlife.  From the top of site you can look out over towards Hardwick Hall, Pleasley and the Derbyshire foothills, sometimes catching aglimpse of a buzzard as it wheels on the thermals. With the aid of a pair of bincoulars, on a clear day, you can look across to the proud towers of Lincoln Cathderal. Below, you can literally fly across the countryside with your eyes, taking in the communities of Mansfield woodhouse, Mansfield, Shirebrook, warsop and Church Warsop.

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