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Nottinghamshire

CLUMBER AND HARDWICK                                 SK 629 745

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Greek Garden Temple

The Greek Doric style temple across Clumber Water was built in about 1765 for the Duke of Newcastle. 

CLUMBER AND HARDWICK                            SK 621 738

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  Clumber Bridge

  The Clumber Bridge was designed by Stephen Wright in      about 1770.

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ELKERSLEY                                                                 SK 644 773

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​Apleyhead Lodge

Apleyhead Lodge is a gateway and attached lodges to Clumber Park and was designed by Stephen Wright in about 1770. 

MANSFIELD                                                                SK 548 606

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Old Rock Houses

The last person to live the Rock Houses was John Bramwell, who was born in 1815. At the end of the 19th century he made a garden in the stack-yard where people who lived at the top of the rock had made besoms in the mid 19th century. 

NOTTINGHAM

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  ​Robin Hood's Cave

NOTTINGHAM

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  Chinese Bell Tower

  The bell tower in Nottingham Arboretum was designed   by Marriott Ogle Tarbotton in 1857 and is a replica of the   one looted by soldiers from a temple in Canton during   the Opium Wars. Two of the canons were captured at   Sebastopol during the Crimean War in 1854-55. The   other two are replicas. 
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  The structure was damaged in 1956 when the bell was   removed to the regimental museum at Preston.

PERLETHORPE CUM BUDBY                           SK 653 699

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  The Buck Gate

  The Buck Gate was a pair of early 19th century   ornamental gate piers with life-sized lead figures of buck   deer.

  It was re-sited with new figures in  1959.

RUFFORD                                                                     SK 641 648

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West Gate

The West Jacobean Revival style gate at Rufford was built in the mid 19th century and was probably designed by Salvin.

WELBECK

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  ​New Gate

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WELBECK

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Russian Log Cottage

In 1884, a Russian Log Cottage, or 'dacha', was built for the 6th Duke of Portland as a shooting box. It was in part of Sherwood Forest known as Birklands.

It fell into disrepair and was demolished sometime after World War II.

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Wentworth House

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  The Copula 

WOLLERTON                                                       SK 548 391

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  Lenton Lodge

  Lenton Lodge is the former gate lodge to Wollerton Hall   and was built in 1823-25. It was designed in the   Elizabethan Revival style by Sir Jeffrey Wyatvile for the   6th Lord Middleton. The gates were originally operated by   an underground mechanism.

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