Pictures of the National Forest Photographs, information, facts, etc.

Contents

The pages are listed from south east to north west.

Select area to view:

• Introduction
• Alrewas area
• Needwood Forest
• Barton under Needwood
• Branston and Tatenhill
• Burton upon Trent
• Rosliston
• Swadlincote
• Albert Village/Ch. Gresley
• Foremark
• Staunton Harold
• Calke, Dimminsdale
• Moira
• Conkers
• Donisthorpe
• Oakthorpe
• Ashby, New Lount
• Sence Valley
• Snibston
• Thringstone
• Whitwick
• Thornton
• Beacon Hill

• Map of National Forest

Snibston Discovery Park and The Grange Nature Reserve

Situated in Coalville, the Discovery Park is a great place to take the family with many interesting exhibits and outside big play experiments for the children.

Situated at the northern end of the site is The Grange Nature Reserve. Snibston Grange, (once the gardens of the site's Colliery Manager), was declared Leicestershire County Councils' first local nature reserve in May 1993.

The pools are heavily used for angling and due to this and their small size, there is little or no bird life living on them. There is about 1 1/2 miles of walks around the park and nature reserve.

Above right: Entrance sign cleverly made of old pit equipment, including a rail car.

Right: Deer sculptures made from bits of old pit equipment welded together. (Best viewed from a distance!)

Above: Inside the Exhibition Hall. Right: The outdoor science play area.

Below: The Grange Nature Reserve.

Below left and right: Views of The Grange Nature Reserve. The pools are very popular for coarse angling.