Best walk from Newstead
Nottinghamshire · East Midlands of England
MapJump on a train, get off at Newstead Station and lose yourself in a beautiful hike for the day.
Hucknall Station to Newstead Station
9km.
Tranquil river crossing through gently hilly, wooded Sherwood Forest country. Suburban footpaths, parkland, field paths, woodland, riverside, and gravel tracks. Newstead Abbey was Lord Byron's ancestral seat; Byron is buried at the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Hucknall. Newstead Colliery (closed 1987) has a pit-wheel monument on the route.