Bestwood Village

Bestwood Village is a village in the Gedling district of Nottinghamshire. It is part of the civil parish of Bestwood St. Albans. A small part of the village falls within the Ashfield district council area. There have been several new housing estates built recently including the redevelopment of the former Bayles and Whylie factory site which was a former glue mill. It is to the east of Hucknall and north of Bulwell. It is neighboured to the North by the village of Papplewick. It is also close to the Bestwood Park Estate which is in the City of Nottingham. Bestwood Estate is a different part of Nottingham within the Nottingham city boundary and this is approximately 3 miles south of Bestwood Village.

It was once a colliery village, indeed the one immortalised by D.H.Lawrence in Sons and Lovers (1913), but is now considered a more affluent area of the Nottingham conurbation.

Bestwood Mill Lakes are an attractive park in the village, the lakes having been constructed for use by now-defunct water mills.

Bestwood Country Park is an area of heath, grassland, wetland and formal garden which can be accessed from the village.

Bestwood Lodge was built in the Gothic style for the Tenth Duke of St Albans in 1862-65 by the architect Samuel Sanders Teulon.

Bestwood Pumping Station, 2 miles north west of the village, was built in 1871-4.

The surviving headstock and winding house of Bestwood Colliery in the Nottinghamshire Coalfield, with its vertical steam engine of 1873, has been preserved to commemorate Bestwood's industrial heritage. It stands at the entrance to the park and is now a listed building.^[1].

Bestwood is part of Nottinghamshire's Hidden Valleys area.

References

External links

• Bestwood Country Park information and pictures