Edwinstowe
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Edwinstowe is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England, on the edge of Sherwood Forest and the Dukeries. It is associated with the legends of Robin Hood and Maid Marian, and to a lesser extent Edwin of Northumbria, from where the village gets its name. The civil parish population at the 2011 census was 5,188. A 2019 estimate put it at 5,261, and was 5,320 at the 2021 census.
Sherwood Forest Art & Craft Centre, Forest Corner (off the B6034 Swinecote Road, Edwinstowe towards Budby road). They were oiginally stables for Edwinstowe Hall, then used as laboratories for the coal mining industry.
St Mary’s Church, Edwinstowe
The Major Oak, Sherwood Forest
The Visitor Centre
The Dukeries
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The Dukeries is an area of the county of Nottinghamshire so called because it contained four ducal seats. It is south of Worksop, which has been called its "gateway". The area was included within the ancient Sherwood Forest. The ducal seats were:Worksop Manor: a home of the Dukes of Norfolk, and nearest to Worksop;
Welbeck Abbey: seat of the Dukes of Portland;
Thoresby Hall: seat of the Dukes of Kingston ; and
Clumber House: seat of the Dukes of Newcastle, since demolished.
Thoresby Hall, rebuilt 1868–1874 for Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers, is now a hotel