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Rural northern Nottinghamshire , with its easy rolling landscapes and large estates, was transformed in the nineteenth century by coal - deep, wide seams of the stuff that spawned dozens of collieries, and colliery towns, stretching north across the county and on into Yorkshire. Almost without exception, the mines have closed, their passing marked only by the old pit head winding wheels left, bleak and solitary, to commemorate the thousands of men who laboured here. The suddenness of the pit closure programme imposed by the Conservative government in the 1980s knocked the stuffing out of the area and only now is it beginning to revive. One prop has been the tourist industry, for the countryside in between these mining communities holds several enjoyable attractions, the best-known of which is Sherwood Forest - or at least the patchy remains of it - one-time haunt (allegedly) of Robin Hood. Byron is a pip-squeak in the celebrity stakes by comparison, but his family home - Newstead Abbey - is here too, there are some pleasant woodland walks in the NT's Clumber Park and, last but certainly not least, there's Hardwick Hall , a beautiful Elizabethan mansion. To reach this quartet of attractions by bus from Nottingham is easy enough with the exception of Hardwick Hall, for which you'll need your own transport.
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