Jack’s Folly

Jack’s Folly is a forest in Walesby, Newark and Sherwood District, England. Jack’s Folly is situated nearby to the village Walesby, as well as near the hamlet Haughton.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Our Lady and St Peter’s Church, Bothamsall and St Edmund’s Church, Walesby.

Our Lady and St Peter’s Church, Bothamsall

Church

Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Our Lady and St Peter's Church, Bothamsall is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Bothamsall, Nottinghamshire, England. The church is part of the Lound Hall Estate, Bothamsall.

St Edmund’s Church, Walesby

Church

Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Edmund's Church, Walesby is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Walesby, Nottinghamshire.

Holy Trinity Church, Kirton

Church

Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Holy Trinity Church, Kirton is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Kirton, Nottinghamshire.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Edwinstowe and Ollerton.

Edwinstowe

Photo: Andy Stephenson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire is the last surviving tract of primeval forest in England. In medieval times it was a royal hunting forest – the shire or sher wood of Nottinghamshire – and it became the setting for the legend of Robin Hood.

Ollerton

Town

Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Ollerton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ollerton and Boughton, in the Newark and Sherwood district, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England, on the edge of Sherwood Forest in the area known as the Dukeries.

Boughton

Village

Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Boughton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ollerton and Boughton, in the Newark and Sherwood district, in Nottinghamshire, England, two miles east of the town of New Ollerton.

Jack’s Folly

Type: Forest
Location: Walesby, Newark and Sherwood District, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.234° or 53° 14′ 2″ north

Longitude

-0.9926° or 0° 59′ 33″ west

Open location code

9C5X62M4+JX

OpenStreetMap ID

way 291482728

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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