Clumber Park

Clumber Park is a rustic park in the Dukeries close to Worksop in Nottinghamshire, England. It turn out to be the seat of the Pelham-Clintons, Dukes of Newcastle. It is owned via the National Trust and open to the general public. The park is indexed Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. Clumber Park is over 3,800 acres in quantity, together with woods, open heath and rolling farmland. It incorporates the longest double avenue of lime timber in Europe. The road emerge as created by way of the 5th Duke of Newcastle inside the 19th century and extends for greater than miles. Clumber Lake is a serpentine lake protecting 87 acres, south of the internet site of Clumber House and extending 2 km to the east.

The lake changed into partially rebuilt in the Nineteen Eighties and all over again in 2004 after laid low with subsidence from coal mining. Hardwick Village lies within the park, close to the jap forestall of the lake. The park changed into left to the human beings of Worksop thru the Duke of Newcastle and acquired with the aid of using the National Trust in 1946. Some of the park turned into closed to the general public. There is automobile get proper of entry to for the areas which can be open to the public. Close to the number one parking region is a cricket pitch with a thatched roof pavilion in the fashion of a cottage clad in rustic cut up logs. Along the road side are massive open regions to park and picnic.