Mansfield - Is there anything to do there/surrounding areas?

Martynt74

Martynt74

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We're buying a car from Mansfield on Saturday. It's around a 2hr drive down from Preston and so i debated turning it into an overnight stay.

I looked on google images and it seems a fairly generic town centre. Just trying to work out whether it's worthwhile actually doing so or whether to drive back home the same day. Especially as the weather isn't looking too good.
 
You could go for a wonder round clumber park or Sherwood Forest and the major oak, there’s creswell craggs too all a short drive from each other , also the peak district , Matlock / bakewell etc are short drive away
 
Deuteronomy said:
You could go for a wonder round clumber park or Sherwood Forest and the major oak, there’s creswell craggs too all a short drive from each other , also the peak district , Matlock / bakewell etc are short drive away
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Cheers, i drove through Matlock once (funnily enough on the way to pick up a previous car from Nottingham!)

Would you suggest finding a smaller hotel somewhere like that rather than staying in the centre?

Good point on the Peak District though, maybe i should just find a nice country hotel and just potter around that.
 
In the eighties, I was driving an oil tanker for Castrol and we’d often take 3 or 4 loads of transformer oil to Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, to change the oil in the transformers.
We would stay in Nottingham for a couple of days as a rule, but it was a bit of a dive in those days, so some bright spark suggested trying Mansfield for a change.
It wasn’t a dive, but it was a dead and alive hole then, although the local women seemed to like us, one said to me that she liked my accent, and as a Cockney I was amazed at that.
To me, the best part of the area was the road south, that linked up with the M1 and took us home.
I wouldn’t say that it was a place to avoid, but I wouldn’t rush back either.
 
I grew up in Mansfield :)

Head out to Edwinstowe and the major oak, just a big tree but has a vibe about it. This is good area for clumber park (just a huge estate really not much to see but a nice walking) Sherwood pines has a few activity things going on, bike hire, Go ape etc. Cresswell crags is worth a visit good visitor center and neothlic finger paintings. Again all around and not far from Edwinstowe.

Mansfield town center is best avoided now unfortunately used to be really good for pubs but a ghost town now.
 
@Martynt74 I didn'r realise you are in Preston these days! I'm off at J33 on the six. Are you going down to Manc and over Snake Pass? Or 62 then 1 (maybe cutting the corner via Huddersfield)?

Back on topic, you could go spotting closed collieries.
 
Tuppy_Glossop said:
@Martynt74 I didn'r realise you are in Preston these days! I'm off at J33 on the six. Are you going down to Manc and over Snake Pass? Or 62 then 1 (maybe cutting the corner via Huddersfield)?

Back on topic, you could go spotting closed collieries.
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Ah not far at all, i often go paddle boarding on the Lune at junction 34. We're just down near Salmesbury. Preston has started improving quite a bit for nice bars etc, doesn't feel i'm missing as much from Manchester anymore!

No idea yet on route, most likely just whack the post code into Google maps, but the return journey could be whichever way we want.


@SPG cheers, to be honest that's all we're really after, just somewhere nice and quiet, somewhere to stop over night and have a bit of a walk out and some decent food to avoid spending 5 hours in a car.
 
You lucky *******, i paddle down and get unbelieveably jealous of those houses.

In fact i recall seeing one for sale a few months back, probably not the same one as this one may have been just the other side of the motorway, but there are some lovely places around there.

Will keep an eye out, i have an email about the Blue Nativ recently on Vivino which caught my eye.
 
Ah absolute moron. I could've parked up at yours, gone for a paddle and then returned and drank all your booze :D
 
Martynt74 said:
We're buying a car from Mansfield on Saturday. It's around a 2hr drive down from Preston and so i debated turning it into an overnight stay.

I looked on google images and it seems a fairly generic town centre. Just trying to work out whether it's worthwhile actually doing so or whether to drive back home the same day. Especially as the weather isn't looking too good.
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It depends what you are into. We sometimes go to Mansfield as the area has 4 good antiques shops and some good Warhammer shops and some Fantastic coffee shops and Afternoon Teas if you are into those. Still not found anywhere that sells better coffee then the TeaHouse at Carbank. With a stop off at https://www.newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk/sfacc/ The Forest Archer if you like medial weapons and leather as well as some interesting shops.

An alternative is to drive to Hucknall not far from Mansfield and get the Tram into Nottingham. You can hop on and off the tram all day stopping at all the city attractions. Nottingham has Zero Latency if you are into VR, Coffee shop full of cats and all sorts really. Some of the Escape Rooms are decent.

Take a look at Sherwood Pines as well as Sherwood Forest.
 
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