Discover Sherwood Forest and Clumber Park with a lovely Spa hotel
Overview
A great weekend in a wonderful part of the country, discovering the lovely Sherwood Forest and Clumber Park; Autumn is a great time of the year for this weekend as many of the trees should be changing colours, giving spectacular views. There will be wooded and open areas as well as lakeside and riverside walking.
The walking will be easy to moderate as the area is quite flat. As with all our weekends we can tailor the walks to the needs of your group, we can offer the option of a shorter or longer walk on some of the days.
A great hotel is the prestigious Clumber Park Hotel & Spa. It has great Leisure Facilities, plenty of free parking and its own pub – The Normanton Arms. You can even book a treatment if you want. We can however source alternative hotels depending on your budget.
Social activities As with all our walking weekends we can run a number of social activities for your group in the evening. These can range from a simple quiz to skittles or a Race Night.
The Detail
Variations:
A Sample two day walking programme
Day One We can walk directly from the hotel and explores Clumber Park, which is a beautiful expanse of wood and heath land covering more than 3,800 acres managed by The National Trust. There is a countless variety of wildlife and over 120 types of trees.
The morning walk will be around 6 miles and will see us going through some of the woods, Hardwick village (a pretty village originally built for the labourers), the famous avenue of lime trees (planted around 1840; its the longest such avenue in Europe) and the lovely Clumber Lake. The afternoon walk will discover more woodland and some of the open heath land as well as more of Clumber Lake. This will be a further 4 miles.
Day Two Today we walk into the heart of the Sherwood Forest. We will visit the visitors centre and famous Major Oak (it is between 800 and 1,000 years old and local folklore says Robin Hood used it as a shelter). The walk has area of woodland, some great sweeping avenue views and the return follows a lovely riverside path. The walk will be around 6 miles.
