I remeber boming up and down there with my friends in the car after I passed my test in 99. I've been down a few times since it closed but for some reason it makes me feel uncomfortable especially on top of the dam in the bottom of the valley. You used to be able to drive much further down on the Mansfield side but they blocked it just past the houses at some point. I just assumed it had become a doggers paradise down there in the evenings. I notice the sign about fly tipping though so that's probably also a large part it. Another good abandoned road to check out is Gravelly Hollow which was the continuation of Burntstump Hill on the east of the A614. It was closed because that junction was supposedly as accident black spot but if you to the B6386 end you can get all the way bacl to the fenced off A614 and theres a couple of nice woodland walks down there at Watchwood and Foxcovert nature reserve. It goes all the way around the back of the old Calverton Pit site which I think is being turned into park land. If you walk from Watchwood car park all the way up towards Whinbush Lane you'll find the Polish Cross memorial. A memorial to a Polish air crew who crashed there in 1940. There's also a tiny section of the abandoned A453 on the south east corner of east midlands airport . If you park at the viewing area at the M1 end of the runway and walk south you should be able to squeeze through the hedge close to the runway center line and that takes you out on to a stretch of abandoed road. The toher part of it is on the corner behind the raddison blu

@alicebutler2007

Ай бұрын

I discovered gravelly hollow from another KZreadr, been a few times but haven't covered much of it, will definitely check out some of the walks you've mentioned👍🏻

"even a hotspot for.." I swear I thought you were going to say "dogging".

@comedyhunter

Ай бұрын

me too LOL.

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@whyyoulidl

Ай бұрын

Same 🤭

I remember Green hills nurseries being down there

Videos like this are the reason i love KZread so much.

@girlsdrinkfeck

Ай бұрын

YT deleting comments thAt does not fit their political agenda isnt

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching Tom

Thank goodness you’re back. Something decent to watch

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Thanks very much for watching ☺️

You have an amazing knack of making any subject you cover a real treat to watch !

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Aaww thank you that's very kind ☺️

Really glad I'm not the only one who likes this sort of thing.

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

I'll keep trying to find more like this in the future

There’s a road like that out of micklefield it’s the old a1. And I’m old enough to remember driving on it!! I tried getting some pics last Sunday but it’s well over grown now

@4:17 and 7:38 I've never seen more beautiful and effective visualisations of wind travelling over a landscape :)

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

I'll have to rewatch 😊

I used that road regularly until it closed, seem to remember there was talk of a bridge or tunnel at the A617 crossing but of course it never happened.

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Something would have been nice for a crossing it'll never happen now. Thanks for watching

@judithfaber2667

Ай бұрын

In the days the A617 was planned pedestrians weren't important. And still aren't considered with new roads

I love all of your walks and will watch them all! I especially love historical walks.

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

So pleased you are enjoying them Terry thank you

Did some poking around on Streetview and it looks like the east section was open to traffic all the way to that turnaround point until at least November 2012, which means nature has done all that in less than a dozen years. Great video!

I always say that nature reclaims what was stolen from it and your video is a prime example. I bet the smell was devine when you made the video, the beautiful, intoxicating Hawthorn was in full bloom. I love old road trekking as does Othilia, my dog. It's safe to let her off her lead so she gets in that undergrowth where a myriad of smells await.

Greart - makes me feel old as I used to use that road in the 1980's!

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching Angela

Still has a better road surface than most of the roads in Ashfield today. On another subject, if you go down there at night you can see multiple cars with flashing interior lights. Possibly having mini discos?

Great video as always Ant, your choice of music gives it so much more atmosphere. I think you should do one on the abandoned section of the A21, just north of Lamberhurst, in Kent. Was always mad busy, but when the Lamberhurst bypass was built in 2010, it was cut off and left to go back to nature. Its a mystical section now, and hard to imagine what it was like. It would make a great video Ant

That was my route to work for years when i worked at Dakatek near Sutton Junction. Threw my 205 GTI around the 90° corner many a morning if I was late for my shift lol! Cant believe how different it looks now. Thanks for another cracking video Ant!

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Or how late you were 😂 That corner was pretty epic if I remember although I was only ever a passenger. You should go back and have another go for old time sake 🤣

Great road when I was younger for thrashing the cars. Never gone back to look at it, but may do now.

Give it another year and that road will disappear under the greenery. Very interesting that, thank you. Maybe a return visit this time next year? All the best.

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Thanks very much for watching ☺️ It may be worth a revisit someday

Ant! I know how much you love the peak district and would love for you to do the back road from Eyam to Grindkeford, we used to live in Eyam and use the road all the time. Not sure how long it has been closed but it has been quite a few years from what i am told. They closed it to cars because of erosion. Thank you for the great work you do.

I can see why the bypass was built, that old road could no longer cope with the volume of traffic and subsequently became a p.i.t.a. bottleneck for commuters. When it boils down, it's just a section of disused road. But there is something so atmospheric about it, and I would love to visit if I ever find myself in that neck of the woods. Many thanks Ant, I loved that video. 👍

You could look at the A6 Road and its original route. Over the years, the A6 has been diverted in many areas to bypass villages and towns. Take Bedfordshire there some small sections of road that are not used anymore or see little use that once were part of the A6 road.

Theres a closed road just like that near me. Star lane leading to spekes bottom . Part of it is used for access to a couple of houses, and part is gated off and is only for walking and cycling. It looks just like your road! Great video, Ant. Thanks fir that. Yes more of the same please!

Used to my favourite cut through to get to the A38 and Ocean Blue Chippy. Did the walk along the abandoned bit during lockdown

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Thanks very much for watching Edward

Brilliant to see this thanks for sharing xx

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Helen thank you x

Amazing Ant. Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Well done. Thank you. Filming as always superb.

Brilliant,,thanks Ant.

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Enjoyed that, thank you!

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Thanks very much for watching

Makes a really nice change from the usual railway and canal walks. I love channels like yours, which is what im planning to do in the future!

Well Ant. If you ever come the Heath at Junc 29. We have several roads / lanes that were severd in the early 60s when the M 1 came through. From All saints church we have church Lane heading southwards towards Palterton. That comes out the other side of both Chesterfield by-pass and the M1.along side the Ramcroft colliery terrace house's, now called the Twin Oaks. There's also the old Mansfield road that heads towards the Ambulance station. And comin our along side Domanics colliery. Now a stone concrete recycling site and into Doe Lea. Then there's the old mill lane that cut off by the A617 then toward Hardwick Hall. If you're ever interested to explore these lanes with my two Gernan Shepherd and myself just give me a shout duck. Or if you want any info just shout out duck. I'm not offended either way me duck. Oh there's also the ice house at Hardwick too ! Anyway ,yes I enjoyed this type of video. Oh on another note these lanes are the type where they're the old pea thpe chippings that we had many of back in the 60s and 70s. The cat eyes have been removed or wasn't installed. And there's no drains either! 👍

Jon on Auto shenanigans only takes 60 seconds on an abandoned road, you've done well to make it nearly 20 mins.

@rustycyclingtrucker

Ай бұрын

Wicked,sweet,awesome

@binky_bun

Ай бұрын

His videos are very quick to be fair. Sometimes I wish he'd spend a bit more time on certain things but I appreciate getting to know what's there. I do enjoy his dry humor though.

@comedyhunter

Ай бұрын

@@rustycyclingtrucker LOL, thank you very much for joining me for another exciting reply, hope you've had a good week 🤣

@comedyhunter

Ай бұрын

@@binky_bun yes I know what you mean they are a bit rushed.

@binky_bun

Ай бұрын

@@comedyhunter to be fair it must take a ton of time to make those videos because he's got to get there to begin with. That Saab must have been to the moon and back at least once.

a nice little bit of history on a ghost road what a nice treat ant xx

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Jan thank you

Thanks for the video, as always great content. best regards from Chicago....

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! 😁

Nice one Ant.

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Many thanks!

What a complete and interesting change video! Railway dereliction we all understand - but roads!! Most interesting, Ant. Thanks for all the trouble you take - but how you find these places, I will never know!

thank you for a very interesting video as you always do .as i live in a very hot and dry part of Australia looking at all that country side makes your video all that more special to me . once again many thanks ant .

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

I'm pleased you are enjoying them. I'd probably have a lot to look at down your way

Ideal for a sci fi movie! Thanks for sharing Ant 👍

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Thanks very much for watching ☺️

How eerie...😮

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

That last section especially

A up did you get video the the lost railways of britain 2 day it was good to see.

Thank you for an unusual and interesting video. I guess in 10-15 years time, some sections of that road will be completely greened-out.

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Thanks very much for watching Malcolm

Fantastic video thanks Ant. It’s lovely just walking thru countryside. It is so green and lush. Would love more of these. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it thanks very much as always

That’s the way I used to head out to Newark and on Into Lincolnshire in my lorry before the a617 was built

Thank you for the walking tour this day. Very interesting and informative to hear. Enjoy your weekend, Ant. 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it thanks very much 😊

abandoned roads are fascinating

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

I'm starting to find them very curious

Thanks for the journey Ant. My wife and I used to travel between Derby and Farnsfield via Mansfield before the A617 was built, but I don't believe we ever used Cauldwell Road. She much preferred bypassing the town center using Sheepbridge Lane and Berry hill Lane. Will now have to check out Cauldwell Lane for myself. Thanks again ! 😊👍

Thanks Ant, an enjoyable video, more would be good.

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it I've got my eye on a couple similar

A very interesting video about a very unusual road.. what amazes me is how you remember all the information you give us ..thank you Ant..

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Dave. I often think the same

Been up there a few times in the late 80s in my RS2000 !

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Absolute classic car

Got worried at "It's also a hotspot for....!" Phew learner drivers. Thought you were going to get demonetised for a minute. 😇

@barrieshepherd7694

Ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly - A sort of Dogger Bank

I've been driving down the 617 on a regular basis for 20 + years and can remember the Rainworth bypass being built.

@TrekkingExploration

28 күн бұрын

I've been local for quite a few years now and this was the first time I've wandered down here. I can just about remember it being built

@clairefirth2383

28 күн бұрын

​@@TrekkingExploration i used kelham as a halfway point between kings Lynn and Macclesfield so can remember the old route taking you through Mansfield and Rainworth before they built all the new bypasses

@TrekkingExploration

28 күн бұрын

@@clairefirth2383 blimey that's quite a journey 😮

That looks really cool love this stuff and will give it a look in when in the area! Hoping you'll consider carrying on from Aylsham North when you are back in Norfolk. As A it's a nice stretch and B there's a nice section of abandoned road and rail bridge for Blicking Road. I'm not sure when it got bypassed but it's really cool it's still there and wasn't mothballed! There's also a path direct to Blickling Hall from there avoiding walking on Blickling Road.

Great stuff, Ant! I always thought you were in your early 30s, but probably not 😅

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

I wish! 😁 Thanks very much 😊

Very interesting. We have a similar abandoned stretch of road near where I live (Northern New Jersey). The road was severed years ago by the construction of I-80. The road on both sides of the abandoned section is still very busy today.

There's a pair of pipes under the A617 just near the fishing lake that are big enough to ride a bike through... I wonder if they're still accessible? It's been at least 10 years since I went through them

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Blimey that sounds intriguing. Might be one for when the foliage has died down

I love this sort of thing

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Thanks very much for watching 😁

Is the Flixborough branch line on your list to do? It joins up to the Trent, north of the M180, was at a company there the other day, looked really fascinating and track still there I’m told.

Looks surreal, a forgotten time warp

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

I bet there's a few like this knocking around

I cycle Cauldwell Road out of Sutton In Ashfield through the woods on a semi-regular occasion and find it indicative of a lot of the old roads in the area that were bisected when the new A Roads were built, many remained in service until higher traffic volume made them too dangerous to cross and nobody wanted to spend money to fix them so they were closed. a planning application was made to build houses on Cauldwell Road in the past couple of years though don't know if it's going ahead but I did have to laugh at one of the complaints against it as they said it would spoil the view! Of what? the Amazon Warehouse 🤔

I liked this "road movie"

Castleton Mount Tor Road OLD A 625 GOOD WALK UP TO THE TOP

May have to pop down there ourselves to do a video.

@TrekkingExploration

14 күн бұрын

Yes do it I'll look for you're pictures

Bit of luck they shut that down, not wide enough for todays Audi/Beemer racers. A bit different, got pavement edges instead of plafforms!!!👍👍

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

I vaguely remember it being open. Some drivers flew down that hill

I was thinking "ah, the old A road, bypassed" - but on looking on old maps, it wasn't even a classified road! It was a yellow road, and the eastern extension to Rainwoth wasn't even that, it was a white road. No wonder it was replaced by a fully-fledged A-Road if the traffic was so heavy on basically a country lane.

Gives fallout vibes, should of used “I don’t want to set the world on fire” by the inkspots for music haha

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

I'll give it a listen 😉 Thank you for watching

Problem now some council or developers will use the road to build yet another housing development some times things are best left alone

Fascinating. Left you a sub look forward to more of the same. Have a good weekend 👍

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Thanks very much indeed 😃

@ChillSlots

Ай бұрын

@@TrekkingExploration​​⁠​​⁠had a peek at this on Google Maps, well worth a look as you can obviously change the date.. have a look if you get a chance the ‘apocalyptic’ part looks very different again in 2011/2012, you could drive further down it then. Amazing how nature took over since then. 👍

Have you been talking to Auto Shenanigans 🤣

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Actually no 😂

@marymoor9293

Ай бұрын

@@TrekkingExploration 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@stephensaines7100

Ай бұрын

Serendipity that you should mention that. I just watched one of his yesterday, on an abandoned M stretch. He's become more refined in recent times, I suspect his subscription base has grown, and respectability with it.

I think that damaged bollard was made by fly tippers trying to get through.

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

It wouldn't surprise me 😞 thanks for watching

So..a filming location you say?

The Midlands is a ghastly area of big sheds,trunk roads, interchanges and roundabouts today.

@rustycyclingtrucker

Ай бұрын

Clearly never spent any time in Derbyshire 🤦‍♂️

@binky_bun

Ай бұрын

If you only every see it from the A1 or M1 yeah it is but then so is every other part of the country if you only drive through it to get to something else. There's some really nice little villages tucked away if you care to look. Southwell is a pretty little town and there's some beautiful places around there and along the river Trent. There's tonnes of history and beautiful walks and parking is usually free unlke some of the more touristy places like the peak district. Get off the trunk roads and you'll find some of the nicest countryside this country has to offer

@ccjelley2390

Ай бұрын

@@rustycyclingtrucker Cheers for the suggestion.. I'm going to book a week's holiday in Swadlincote now to watch all the Chinese goods being distributed around the country, perhaps do some plane spotting around East Midlands Gateway.

@rustycyclingtrucker

Ай бұрын

@@ccjelley2390 enjoy

Sorry a 21 year old daughter! 😮 I assumed you were mid 30s

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Awww thanks. I'll take that 😊

APOCALYPTIC sir, if you please! 😀

ROAD AHEAD CLOSED Should it not read......... CLOSED AHEAD ROAD How you would read it travelling towards it !

Cyclist's dream....better make that plural: "Cyclists' dream"

Prefect for us cyclists..

Apocoliptic……. Bit clickbaity

@TrekkingExploration

Ай бұрын

Thank you 👍

@stephensaines7100

Ай бұрын

@@TrekkingExploration lol...

That road reminds me of the old colwick road that's abandoned and Andover ground.