Steve led this10½ mile walk starting at the Brierley Forest Park in Huthwaite. The park takes
its name from the former colliery on the site, officially known as Sutton Colliery but
known locally as Brierley Pit after the Staffordshire miners who came
from the area of Brierley Hill to sink the pit in the early 1870s.
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| The start |
The walk climbed on good tracks up Silverhill, the highest point (almost) in the county at 204.3 metres. Originally it was a mine spoil heap on the site of the former colliery of the same name which closed in the 1990s. The summit is crowned with a bronze statue Testing for Gas, a
kneeling coal miner with a Davy lamp. Listed on the base are the names of the principal collieries in the county 1819–2005.
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| Spring flowers in Teversal |
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| Approaching Hardwick Hall |
Lunch was taken in the Stable Yard of Hardwick Hall ...
... before leaving the grounds past the stone masons' cottage.
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| Looking back at the Hardwick Estate |
