When standing in Mansfield's bustling market place, a busy bar or shopping until you drop in one of the many retail outlets, it's hard to believe that if you took a 15 minute drive in any direction from Mansfield you'd be in rural surroundings. Being on the fringe of Sherwood Forest has its benefits.

World famous as the legendary home of Robin Hood, this historic Royal Hunting Forest's ancient patchwork landscape of woodland, heath, farms and settlements is an ecologically important home to some of Europe’s greatest trees and lowland heathland that is as rare as rainforest!

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