Or by car, and using the Free Park and Ride facility on the Forest at Gregory Boulevard.

The Forest, once home to Nottinghams horseracing course, is now a large open space almost in the City Centre. It has pleasant walks, football pitches, play areas, bowls greens and a cafe in summer periods. It is also the location for the annual world famous Goose Fair every October.

The adjacent Rock Cemetery, although not an immediately obvious place for a pleasure journey,  is well worth a visit - and there are occasional conducted walking tours advertised in the local press

The cemetery is beautifully maintained and contains a vast array of memorials and monuments  - many of them real examples of the stonemasons' craft in years gone by. One can very easily eat up a couple of hours walking round this area!

The public gallows stood at the Mansfield Road/Forest Road entrance to the cemetery until the date of the last public execution in 1827, though no trace of these remain

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