Calverton and Oxton Five Woods Walk, 27th March 2022


Paul's 8.9 mile walk took fourteen of us up Bonner Hill (the ridge between Calverton and Woodborough) and then past Ramsdale Park Golf Course to Fox Wood, Fox Covert Plantation.Watchwood Plantation and Gorse Covert to Oxton, returning by Thorndale Plantation.
The start at Calverton Library


This fort on Bonner Hill was an important local feature in both Iron Age and Roman times and is acknowleged as one of the finest examples in Nottinghamshire

Passing Ramsdale Park Golf Course - great views to the east

Memorial in Watchwood Plantation commemorating the deaths of three Polish airmen of 300 Mosovian Squadron who crashed there on October 13, 1940

Oxton Bog, source of the Dover Beck

Oxton Dumble joins Dover Beck on its way to the Trent at Caythorpe.  Just downstream are the remains of Oxton Mill,  first of the eleven mills on the Dover Beck
One of the woods