We’ve just got back from a weekend at Teversal in Nottinghamshire. We stayed at the Camping and Caravanning Club Site and it was excellent. The site is open all year with the majority of the pitches being hardstanding and the showerblocks were excellent. The site staff were very friendly and the shop was extremely well equipped with daily papers that you didn’t have to order, odds and sods that you might have forgotten or needed and superb local sausages and bacon from nearby farms. They also have a number of local walking maps you can purchase for a few pence. There was a pub serving food 5 minutes walk down the road and all the walking you could manage in a weekend.

Accross the road from the site entrance are the Teversal Trails that follow the track beds of former colliery railways which together with the local footpaths provide excellent walking opportunities through countryside that is steeped in history and has an abundance of wildlife. The Teversal Trails Visitor Centre has plenty of parking and is an information centre plus cafe that has plenty of local leaflets, craft displays, reference books and friendly advice if you need it. Within easy walking distance is Old Teversal, once owned by Lord Carnarvon who was chiefly responsible for the discovery of Tutankhamun and DH Lawrence was reputed to have stayed there and got the inspiration for his famous book, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. There are a number of trails you can follow, all aptly named, and one to note is the Lady Spencer Walk that takes you to the National Trust’s Hardwick Hall. 

There is also a short walk through Silverhill Wood that takes you to the highest peak in Nottinghamshire, 205m, and on top of this is a statue of a miner in memory of all the coal mines within the area. There is a rather sad plaque on the base of this statue that has a long list of names of all the miners who died ‘ testing for gas’. Teversal and Silverhill collieries at their peak employed over 1000 men, were each working for over a hundred years and annually produced a million tonnes of coal.

There’s plenty to do and see from the site and we thoroughly recommend it for a weekends stay or longer.