Sherwood Castle Holiday Forest

Sherwood Castle Holiday Forest is in Ollerton and Boughton, Newark and Sherwood District, England. Sherwood Castle Holiday Forest is situated nearby to Rufford Lane Ford, as well as near the town Ollerton.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Rufford Abbey and Major Oak.

Rufford Abbey

Photo: Enchufla Con Clave, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rufford Abbey is a country estate in Rufford, Nottinghamshire, England, two miles south of Ollerton. Originally a Cistercian abbey, it was converted to a country house in the 16th century after Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries. Rufford Abbey is situated 4,100 feet southwest of Sherwood Castle Holiday Forest.

Major Oak

Photo: Galli, Public domain.

The Major Oak is a large dead English oak near Edwinstowe, in the midst of Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England. Thought to be between 800 and 1,200 years old, the tree was estimated to weigh 23 long tons and had a canopy of 92 feet at its peak. Major Oak is situated 2 miles northwest of Sherwood Castle Holiday Forest.

St Swithin’s Church, Wellow

Church

Photo: Geoff Dunn, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Swithin's Church, Wellow is a Grade II* listed Church of England parish in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham in Wellow, Nottinghamshire. St Swithin’s Church, Wellow is situated 1¼ miles east of Sherwood Castle Holiday Forest.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ollerton and Rufford.

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.

Rufford

Hamlet

Rufford, in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, is the site of two villages whose inhabitants were evicted in the 12th century. Cistercian monasteries were established and the monks wished to ensure their isolation.

Wellow

Village

Photo: Steve F, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wellow is a village in Nottinghamshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 444, increasing to 470 at the 2011 census, but falling slightly to 463 at the 2021 census.

Sherwood Castle Holiday Forest

Type: Tourist attraction
Category: tourism
Location: Ollerton and Boughton, Newark and Sherwood District, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.18679° or 53° 11′ 13″ north

Longitude

-1.02801° or 1° 1′ 41″ west

Wheelchair access

Open location code

9C5W5XPC+PQ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 293331070

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=attraction

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