Vicar Water Country Park.
Vicar Water.
Today I joined J&G on a visit to this lovely country park. The park is an excellent example of the transformation of colliery spoil tips into beautiful heathland, woodland and grassland. At the top of the site marvellous views in all directions extend into the counties of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire, not to mention the forest of Sherwood. There is ample parking attained via well built roads and an excellent visitor centre. The site is covered by 3 coloured routes. But these can be easily interchanged to suite your own requirements. In fact they can be extended beyond the confines of the park into the neighbouring Sherwood Forest.
All that remains of Cliptone Colliery.Wherever you are in the park there is the constant reminder of days long gone when men dug a living miles under this land for coal. That reminder being the mighty winding wheels that still dominate the landscape for many a mile. It would be a shame if these magnificent monuments were to be lost. Vicar Water is filled by the water from a borehole and the stream fills a much larger Vicar Pond a couple of hundred yards away. Once a trout stocking pond for some duke, now a coarse fishig pond. Birdwise, most of the sightings were on the spoil tip tops. Larks and Tree Pipits providing the activity. George got some lovely closeups of the pipits.
Vicar Pond with the Golden Hand sculptor.Skylark, Tree Pipit, Linnet, Chaffinch.
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