Colliers Wood

Colliers Wood is a nature reserve in Greasley, Broxtowe District, England. Colliers Wood is situated nearby to the village Moorgreen, as well as near Greasley.

Places of Interest

Highlights include D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum and Moorgreen Reservoir.

D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum

Museum

Photo: nick macneill, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum preserves the writer's home of D. H. Lawrence in Eastwood, near Nottingham. It is one of the four houses the family occupied in Eastwood.

Moorgreen Reservoir

Reservoir

Photo: Garth Newton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Eastwood Library

Library

Photo: Alan Murray-Rust, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hucknall and Eastwood.

Hucknall

Photo: Chris Eaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Hucknall is a market town in the Ashfield district of Nottinghamshire, England, 7 miles north of Nottingham, 7 miles southeast of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, 9 miles from Mansfield and 10 miles south of Sutton-in-Ashfield.

Eastwood is a town and civil parish in the Broxtowe district of Nottinghamshire, England, 9 miles northwest of Nottingham. Mentioned in Domesday Book, it expanded rapidly during the Industrial Revolution.

Greasley

Village

Photo: Victuallers, Public domain.

Greasley is a civil parish north west of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England. Although it is thought there was once a village called Greasley, there is no settlement of that name today as it was destroyed by the Earl of Rutland.

Colliers Wood

Type: Nature reserve
Category: recreation area
Location: Greasley, Broxtowe District, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.0263° or 53° 1′ 35″ north

Longitude

-1.2854° or 1° 17′ 7″ west

Open location code

9C5W2PG7+GR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 181253769

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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