Best walks from Shirebrook

Shirebrook Station to Worksop Station

An excellent route. A fairly direct, mostly off-road route on good traffic-free tracks, old railway path and field/parkland through the Welbeck Estate, with some pasture (potential cattle) and 3 stiles and 4 short flights of steps near Worksop. Some pavement walking from the stations at either end. Passes through the Welbeck Estate and Creswell Crags; the path runs over a tunnel created by the 5th Duke of Portland; a loop into Creswell village offers shops, buses and trains halfway.

19km.

Steps at the crossing of the A57, which has no assistance for walkers; two further road crossings need care; pasture fields on the fringe of parkland mean potential cattle.

Lunch stop: Creswell Crags Visitor Centre cafe.

Documented by Slow Ways — download GPX route

Shirebrook Station to Mansfield Woodhouse Station

A fairly direct, well-plotted route, a little muddy in places, with lots of green: residential streets, the River Meden crossing, bridleways and tracks running parallel to the railway past the Sports Direct warehouse and a former-colliery country park. Motorcycle 'A' barriers and step-stiles at the railway level crossing are the only obstacles; no cattle or fields. No services in the centre section.

6km.

Two step-stiles either side of a railway level crossing; an overgrown stony path leads down to it. Muddy in places.

Documented by Slow Ways — download GPX route