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A new Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre was authorised in 2015. In August 2018 the RSPB opened the new development with a shop and café, having been granted permission to manage the woods in 2015. Part of an agreement with Natural England was that the land where the existing 1970s visitor centre was located would be restored to wood pasture.
The Visitor Centre. Nottinghamshire County Council's Sherwood Forest Visitors' Centre is located near the village and was redeveloped and improved in 2017 at a cost of £5.3 million. This centre is operated in partnership by the Council and the RSPB. [13] [14]
The forest offers a visitor centre, walking, cycling, mountain biking, [3] jogging, a parkrun, [4] orienteering, bushcraft, a cafe, a children's adventure trail, tree climbing, ranger activities, segway, a Robin Hood hideout and a raised walkway. [1] [5] It is the largest park in the East Midlands of England, with an area of 3,300 acres. [6]
There are open fields to the west and north. There are scattered wooded areas throughout the parish, but much of the south contains a heavily forested portion of Sherwood Forest called Sherwood Pines Forest Park, with visitor facilities and attractions 0.81 miles (1.3 km) south of the village. [5]
A new visitor centre with shop and café was built in 2016. [2] In May 2022 a pair of Black-winged Stilts arrived at Potteric Carr and made a nest at Piper Marsh. They were successful in fledging four juveniles which remained until the end of July. It was the first recorded breeding by this species in Yorkshire.
Articles relating to Sherwood Forest and its contents. It is a royal forest in Nottinghamshire , England, famous because of its historic association with the legend of Robin Hood . The area has been wooded since the end of the Last Glacial Period (as attested by pollen sampling cores ).
The boating lake at Sherwood Forest with The Pancake House on the right. The first Center Parcs holiday village in the United Kingdom was opened in July 1987. [5] It is located in 400 acres (1.6 km 2) of woodland at Sherwood Forest, near Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
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