Nether Langwith and Whaley Thorns, 13th July 2025

Starting at the railway station car park, Sue's 8-mile walk first took eight members across the nearby railway line and into the Poulter Country Park through which passes the 11-mile Archaeological Way which will eventually link Pleasley Pit Country Park and Creswell Crags. The redevelopment of the Archaeological Way has inspired some excellent community arts projects, many of which now form the Sculpture Trail in the park. This is situated on the site of the waste tips of Langwith Colliery which finished production in 1978 after 98 years of production.

Poulter Country Park Sculpture Trail
There are seven unique sculptures in, and near to, Poulter Country Park: 1 - Dragonfly; 2 - Scimitar Flower; 3 - Flint Flower; 4 - Industrial Fossils ; 5 - Top of the World ; 6 - Commemoration; 7 - Bridging the Gap

Flint Flower by Ewan Allinson, said to represent the shape of a flint tool found locally

Top of the World sculpture by Ewan Allinson, inspired by the area's stone-age past

Not seen this time - Industrial Fossils by David Mayne, black ferns that represent the coal of Langwith Colliery

In World War 1 there was a munitions factory on the site, it was dangerous work and six people were killed by separate explosions.  On a wet Saturday night during World War 2, a Canadian fighter plane crashed close to the pit tips, sadly both crewmen died. 

We then crossed from Derbyshire back into Nottinghamshire, stopping for coffee beside the River Poulter in Nether Langwith before walking south to Cuckney Hay Wood.

River Poulter emerges onto Nether Langwith Green

Nether Langwith Green

Cuckney Hay Wood

Lunch in disused limestone quarry

Almost derelict Langwith Mill on the Poulter downstream of Nether Langwith was a cotton mill built in 1786. It was powered by a large water wheel fed from a lake nearby

Langley Mill House being renovated

Back at the station car park ...

...and then welcome refreshments at the busy Jug and Glass after a hot and steamy but enjoyable day

Start: Langwith-Whaley Thorns station car park
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