Bestwood Village

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Bestwood Village is a village in the Gedling district of Nottinghamshire.It is part of the civil parish of Bestwood St. Albans.

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.

It was once a colliery village, 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. [Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1979. "The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire". page 72.Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin.] .

Bestwood is part of Nottinghamshire's Hidden Valleys area.

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