Day Thursday
Date 21/08/2025
Start Time 10:00 am
Walk Name Pleasley Pit, Testing for Gas, and Lady Chatterley's Lover
Description This is an excursion to

● the developing, interesting Pleasley Pit Colliery Museum,
● an outstanding figurative sculpture, Testing for Gas, on the second highest point in Nottinghamshire (crafted from an old slag heap, which also overlooks Hardwick Hall),
● and the village which DH Lawrence used as the setting for the Chatterley’s manor house.
The walk starts at the pit and we’ll walk an 8 mile loop, down to the statue and Teversal village and return on a different route to Pleasley. Most of the walk is along paths created from old colliery railway tracks and the whole day out will be full of deep joy
Walk Leader Mick N
Notify Please text 07949 596702 by 6PM the day before to sign up
Start Point Entrance to Pleasley Pit Visitor Centre
Start Point Details Pleasley Pit, Pit Ln, Pleasley, Mansfield NG19 7PH


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Grid Reference SK 49955 64438 - nearest postcode: NG19 7FJ
Grade A2
Distance 8 miles
Additional Information If you’re travelling by bus, with the walk leader, then the #53
Sheffield to Mansfield bus leaves Sheffield Interchange at 8.30
and arrives at Pleasley Pit at 9.50. (£3 fare single)
There’s a bus back to Sheffield at 16.00 and gets us back for
17.25.
There’s ample car parking at Pleasley Pit.
Toilets at Pleasley Pit, & Teversal Visitors Centre.
Dress for the weather and bring your lunch and drinks, and there
are cafes at the pit (open 10-2) and Teversal (closes at 2)
I’m choosing shoes, (and I always carry my poles when walk
Dog Friendly
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