Erewash Valley Trail

0845 9072244 0845 . on

or Erewash Borough Council Council Borough Erewash or

0115 9177777 0115 on

or call Broxtowe Borough Council Council Borough Broxtowe call or

www.erewashvalleytrail.co.uk www.erewashvalleytrail.co.uk

for open days. open for

Tel: 07590 818045 07590 Tel:

For more information see see information more For

acres of parkland. of acres

16th Century House in 200 200 in House Century 16th

Thrumpton Hall - Hall Thrumpton •

Delivery through Partnership through Delivery

Tel: 0115 9721777 0115 Tel:

wildlife site and visitors centre. visitors and site wildlife

Pretty village with impressive impressive with village Pretty

Attenborough - - Attenborough •

from Nottingham. from

good access and facilities. and access good town of Beeston and 4 miles miles 4 and Beeston of town

junction of waterways with with waterways of junction Boating centre a mile from the the from mile a centre Boating

Trent Lock - Lock Trent • Beeston Lock - Lock Beeston • Interesting Interesting

centre. Tel: 0115 9153900 0115 Tel:

development as a lace making making lace a as development beautiful parkland setting. parkland beautiful

connected with the town’s town’s the with connected Museum with lake and and lake with Museum

Wollaton Hall - Hall Wollaton • architecture left in Long Eaton Eaton Long in left architecture

fine examples of industrial industrial of examples fine

winning multi-facility park. multi-facility winning

town next to trail, there are are there trail, to next town

Bramcote Hills Park - Park Hills Bramcote • Award Award

Long Eaton - Eaton Long • Busy market market Busy

next to Bramcote Hills Park. Hills Bramcote to next

project partners include: partners project hermit’s cave nearby. cave hermit’s

Impressive geological feature feature geological Impressive

Ancient local landmark with with landmark local Ancient

Hemlock Stone - Stone Hemlock •

people and wildlife. and people Dale Abbey - Abbey Dale •

Canals.

improve and promote the valley for for valley the promote and improve

valley.

Nottingham and Cromford Cromford and Nottingham

structure which dominates the the dominates which structure The partnership continues to work to to work to continues partnership The

junction of the Erewash, Erewash, the of junction

2, very rare type of railway railway of type rare very 2,

Local landmark and on the the on and landmark Local

Bennerley Viaduct - Viaduct Bennerley • Grade Grade major improvements. major

Great Northern Basin - Basin Northern Great •

High Street. High Initiative Fund has helped to deliver deliver to helped has Fund Initiative

Tel: 01773 717353 01773 Tel:

fine Georgian building in the the in building Georgian fine

from partners and the 6C’s Green Green 6C’s the and partners from

Eastwood’s famous author. famous Eastwood’s

Erewash Museum, housed in a a in housed Museum, Erewash

Museum - Museum Museum of of Museum the project and substantial funding funding substantial and project the

past which is told in the the in told is which past

D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Lawrence H. D. •

market town with an industrial industrial an with town market have been a great help in developing developing in help great a been have

Ilkeston - Ilkeston • Busy hill top top hill Busy Association and local history groups groups history local and Association

sites along the valley, most of which have public access. public have which of most valley, the along sites

Tel: 01773 719961 01773 Tel: Canal Preservation and Development Development and Preservation Canal

landscape and leisure facilities. leisure and landscape near to the trail. The map overleaf gives an idea of the wealth of wildlife wildlife of wealth the of idea an gives overleaf map The trail. the to near

Local groups such as the Erewash Erewash the as such groups Local

650 acres of attractive attractive of acres 650

These points of interest give just a flavour of the attractions available available attractions the of flavour a just give interest of points These

Shipley Country Park - Park Country Shipley •

of the organisations shown below. shown organisations the of

railways, lace and brewing. and lace railways, Points of interest along the trail the along interest of Points

in 2009 through a partnership consisting consisting partnership a through 2009 in

Interesting town with history of of history with town Interesting

The concept of the Trail was developed developed was Trail the of concept The Kimberley - Kimberley •

ErEwASh A Smile with every Mile VAllEy TrAil The Erewash Valley Trail is a circular Wildlife of the valley walking and cycling route which takes Strategically the Erewash Valley is important as a wildlife Much of what we corridor connecting the Trent Valley with the countryside of in over 30 miles of waterway and see in the valley Derbyshire. This migration route allows a variety of species, today reflects the major countryside on the Nottinghamshire particularly birds to move into different habitats with the activities of the late 18th and Derbyshire border. There are seasons. The valley has a chain of marvellous wildlife sites with Century. The river has always Attenborough Nature Reserve at the mouth of the river Erewash many shortcuts and links across the offered the prospect of travel and and many nature reserves and designated sites on both sides of transport and prior to the steam age, trail which connect communities and the valley. provide shorter local water power for mills. The remains of Central to the quality of the wildlife habitats is the cleanliness this can be seen on the ground and in the many references to loops and split the of the water and the work of the Environment Agency over Mill in place and road names along the valley. recent years has seen major improvement. Otters and Trout are trail into smaller The industrial revolution increased the need for transport and returning to the valley and rare wetland birds such as Bittern, this is demonstrated by the existence of two canals in the valley. sections. which are regularly seen at Attenborough, are starting to explore These canals transported a variety of products but especially the valley. coal from the local coal fields which was often taken as far As well as wetlands the valley is highly regarded for its grasslands. as London. The major ironworks at Stanton also generated a Many wet meadows are full of colourful wildflowers in the spring significant demand for transport and along with brick making, pottery, and lace supported the canals until the early 20th The valley is a special place which has inspired great and these areas are essential for diverse insect populations. Several such areas have been designated by Nottinghamshire Century when railways authors such as D. H. Lawrence and Alan Sillitoe and the took over. Again the valley Erewash Valley Trail project is supported by local celebrities Wildlife Trust as Blue Butterfly sites recognising their value as grasslands managed with wildlife in mind. boasted two major lines including actors Robert Lindsay and William Roache, fashion run by the Great Northern designer Paul Smith and environmental champion David Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trusts have been Railway which followed the Attenborough. working closely through the Erewash Valley Trail project to line of the A610 and the Although the trail is a major feature of the valley there is undertake wildlife survey work to deepen knowledge of the Midland railway which still much more. The valley is a haven for wildlife providing a area and the valuable habitats it provides. This work will help exists. The need for railway valuable wetland corridor and at the same time a living to establish priorities and guide future work to ensure the area transport resulted in many Stanton Iron Works. landscape for local residents and visitors to enjoy. continues to improve. spin off industries which supported the local economy especially in Long Eaton. However you choose to use the valley, please consider For more information on the wildlife of the valley see special other users and take only memories and leave only foot leaflet on the Erewash Valley Trail website. The mining theme continued in the middle of the 20th century (and tyre!) prints. with coal opencast mining at Newthorpe and gravel extraction at Attenborough which continues nearby to this day and has History of the Valley resulted in the creation of a vast, nationally important, wetland The archaeological record gives mention nature reserve. of 4000 year old Neolithic finds in Cotmanhay, along with evidence of Saxon and Roman The Valley today presence at a number of The valley has long been the playground for local communities places in the valley. The linking settlements in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Much Erewash Museum in of the heavy industry has gone replaced by smaller hi-tech Ilkeston has many employment and as the value of healthy living is recognised interesting local many leisure activities thrive. Walking, cycling, angling, boating, exhibits and its jogging and bird watching are very popular. Dog walkers building lies The Saxon Cross in are major users often providing important feedback and close to the Stapleford. informal policing of the area. ‘Monks Way’, a stone slabbed causeway that formed Attractions such as Shipley Country Park, Attenborough part of a network of routes linking Nature Reserve, DH Lawrence Birthplace and Erewash monasteries such as Dale Abbey and Museum provide local tourism opportunities Strelley Priory, perhaps as far back as and are developing as national tourist the 14th Century. destinations. The valley hosts a range The valley has long been recognised of events throughout the year, see for its agricultural value particularly its Erewash Valley Trail website for grassland and water meadows. Evidence further information. of ancient ridge and furrow (humps and hollows) meadows can be found throughout the valley but notably at Sandiacre next to the Erewash Canal just down stream of Moorbridge Lane. ErEwASh VAllEy TrAil The 30 miles Beacon Hill Old Stables Moorgreen Reservoir Main access points westerN side Watnall Coppice Beauvale High Park Cottages N Beauvale Manor Farm of the Trail Coneygrey Plantation 1 Great Northern or Langley Mill Basin, Derby Road, Langley Mill NG16 4AA Brooksbreasting Farm 2 Lacey Fields Road, Heanor DE75 7hN takes in Coneygrey Farm Ruffs Hazelgrove 3 Long Lane, Shipley Gate NG16 3JE Brinsley Brook W E 4 Bridge Street, Cotmanhay DE7 8rD beautiful Colliers Wood 5 Awsworth Road, Ilkeston DE7 8JF countryside, Moorgreen S Crowhill Farm 6 Monks Close, Ilkeston DE7 5E7 Nether Green Brook Beauvale Brook Westville 1 7 Gallows Inn, Nottingham Road, Ilkeston DE7 5BN wildlife and 1 Greasley Gilt Brook Hollybush Farm Sledder Wood 8 Hallam Fields Road, Ilkeston DE7 4AZ Eel Hole Farm waterways . . . EASTWOOD Beauvale 9 Stanton Lock (connects with NutbrookHome Trail) Wood NG9 3rG 2 Littlefields Farm Bailey Grove 10 Moorbridge Lane, Stapleford City Golf Course NG9 8GT Quarry Wood Coronation Park Hill Top . . . but never far Mill Lane, Sandiacre / Sandiacre Road, Stapleford NG10 5DT Newthorpe 11 12BulwellSandiacre Wood Town Centre NG10 5hw from the towns Gilt Brook Watnall Wood Lacey Fields Farm 3 New Eastwood Newthorpe Common 13 Lock Lane, Sandiacre NG10 5lA and villages on 2 Common Farm New Farm Cottage 4 Giltbrook 14 Bennett Street, Long Eaton NG10 4JF the borders of Watnall 15 Midland Street, Long Eaton (Via Nutbrook Trail) NG10 1ry 5 16 Derby Road, Long Eaton Bulwell NG10 1JU Nottinghamshire 3 New Farm Wood Tamworth Road, Long SnapeEaton Wood NG10 1BD 17 and Train Station NG10 3GS and Derbyshire. The Bungalow New Nuthall High Wood 18 Fields Farm Road, Long Eaton NG10 1AU Nottingham Canal KIMBERLEY High Wood Cemetery The trail is available for Gilt Brook 19 Trent Lock, Lock Lane, Sawley NG10 2Fy AWSWORTH Nuthall Low Wood walkers and cyclists and well Cotmanhay Wood marked with orange Erewash Whisgills The Lake Valley Trail signs. Please look Grasscroft Farm Main access points easterN side for the interpretation panels Cotmanhay Verge Wood 4 Exit 1 Great Northern or Langley Mill Basin, Derby Road, Langley Mill NG16 4AA which highlight the route 26 Shipley Babbington 2 Anchor Road, Eastwood NG16 3RU and local points of interest. Country River Erewash Park 6 3 Tinsley Road and Newmanleys Road off ChurchCinderhill Street, Eastwood NG16 3BS For even more detail Cossall Common Windmill Farm 4 Halls Lane, Giltbrook NG16 2UW see Ordnance Survey Windmill Plantation 5 5 Smithurst Road, Giltbrook NG16 2UD Explorer 260 map. Shipley Common Chilwell Dam Plantation 7 Cossall Marsh Spring Wood 6 Newtons Lane, Awsworth NG16 2SE Broad Oak Plantation Please proceed with Coronation Road, Cossall NG16 2RU Turkey Fields Farm 7 Broxtowe particular care near other Ilkeston Junction Cossall 8 Cossall Village and Nottingham Canal NG16 2RY users, on narrow sections 9 Trowell Village off Nottingham Road NG9 3PF and where the route follows Stonepit Plantation Robbinettes Arm roads. Brickyard Plantation 10 Pit Lane, Trowell NG9 3QH Strelley 6 11 Coventry Lane and Nottingham Canal NG9 3GJ 8 The WESTErN SIDE ILKESTON Larklands 12 Bramcote Hills Park NG9 3GD of the trail is in Derbyshire Catstone Hill 13 Baulk Lane, Stapleford NG9 8BG and follows the Erewash Cator Lane, Chilwell NG9 4AY Canal towpath from Trent Shortwood Farm Shaw's Plantation 14Bilborough Nut Brook Nutbrook Canal Field House Lock northwards to the 15 Attenborough Village and Railway Station NG9 6AS Langley Mill basin. There are Kirk Hallam 16 Attenborough Nature Centre, Barton Lane, Attenborough NG9 6DY minor detours away from 7 17 Trent Riverside Path from Beeston Lock NG9 1NA the towpath at Tamworth Gallows Inn Grange Wood Little Hallam Trowell Moor 18 Trent Meadows off Meadow Lane, Long Eaton NG10 2FQ Road and just north of Martin's Pond Long Eaton where the route 19 Cranfleet Lock off Meadow Lane, Long Eaton NG10 2FX 9 follows the Nutbrook Trail Hallam Fields 20 Trent Lock, Lock Lane, Sawley NG10 2FY Trowell Tottle Brook Wollaton along the flood bank next to Pioneer Meadows 11 the canal. Please Note: Most of these access points have on street parking or car parks nearby. 8 Most also have footpath links across the valley so that the trail can be explored in short The Bigger Picture . . . . Nut Brook River Erewash sections. Nut Brook New Stanton Trail Robin Thompson's Wood Boundary Brook Hood MAP KEy: Erewash Valley Trail 10 Way The Trail links with many long distance routes, Stapleford Hill Shortcuts / Circular Walks (not all suitable for cycling) Stanton Grove 9 Deddington Plantation Hemlock Stone National Cycle Route 6 (part only, see www.sustrans.org.uk) The Lake For more information see:-Thacker Wood 12 Bramcote Hill Bramcote Hills Nature Reserves Baguley's Wood 10 Grove Cottage Nutbrook Trail - www.derbyshire.gov.uk Stanton-by-Dale Bramcote Hills Park Trent Valley Way - www.ontrent.org.uk Stanton Gate Crow Hill Erewash Valley The EaSTErN SIDE is mainly in Sustrans - www.sustrans.org.ukHigh Lodge Farm Golf Course Bramcote Stoney Clouds Nottinghamshire and is well signed. The Big Track - www.thebigwheel.org.uk From the Langley Mill Basin the trail Robin Hood Way - www.robinhoodway.com joins a short section of Derby Road Choose Cycling - www.choosecycling.co.uk Bob's Rock 13 Burnt Hill then follows Anchor Road southwards

Pedals - www.pedals.org.uk Windmill Hill alongside the A610 to link to an BEESTON open space and disused section of Risley Lodge Farm Stapleford the Nottingham Canal. The trail then PuBlIC TraNSPOrT Sandiacre 11 Train stations are shown on the map and for 14 follows the bridleway network through information on local bus services contact a wide section of the valley passing 12 Trent Barton: by Cotmanhay and connecting with a 01773 712265 www.trentbarton.co.uk section of the Nottingham Canal which Exit 13 Nottingham CityGolden Transport: Brook 25 is still in water at Awsworth. From 0115 950607 www.nctx.co.uk Chilwell here the route follows the towpath Premiere Travel: Risley 0115 9851111 www.premierebuses.co.uk southwards to Coventry Lane and then Sandboro' Fields follows a short section of cycleway Springfield Park 17 alongside a road before passing 14 through a corner of Bramcote Hills FOR THE LESS MOBILE – Toton 15 Park. The route leaves the park and Attenborough Much of the route has easy, level access follows Stanley Drive and quiet estate however there are short steep sections River Erewash roads to the open countryside and and controls such as kissingCottage gates Farm at open spaces of Chilwell, connecting some locations – for specific information 15 with Cator Lane and Long Lane on its about rights of way contact: 16 LONG EATON River Erewash 16 way to Attenborough Village. Passing

Nottingham County Council on 08449 808080 Golden Brook close to the ancient church the route Breaston then runs close to the Attenborough Derbyshire County Council on 0845 6058058 Grange Park Brands Hill West Park The Bungalow Nature Centre then turns towards the river Trent following the river upsteam Erewash Canal Barton in Fabis to Cranfleet Lock and back to Trent FOR WATERWAyS LOVERS - Breaston Fields Farm 17 Prickle Pin Lodge Lock. young and old see 18 New Sawley www.waterscape.com for local information River Trent www.wow4water.net for childrens activitiesChurch Wilne Reservoir 18 Top Farm Cottage Sawley Grange Farm

Church Wilne Ivy House Farm Windsurf Club 19 Glebe Farm Sawley Nottingham Yacht Club Scale: Mile

Grounds Farm Trentlock Kilometre Thrumpton River Trent Gotham Hill Sawley Cut 19 Thrumpton Park Sawley Lock House 20 Redhill Tunnels Twenty Lands Plantation Round Spinney Wood Hill Wright's Hill Hillside Cottage Derwent Mouth Lock Red Hill Ratcliffe On Soar Power Station Cottagers Hill Cottagers Hill Spinney Morley's Barn Farm Lockington Grounds Farm Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2011.