Guided Walks

We arrange entertaining guided walks around Beeston taking in places and buildings of historic interest.  The walks are based on the Beeston Heritage Trail (published by the Beeston and District Civic Society, see our publications list) and the details are publicised on this web site, through the Society Newsletter and also in the Borough of Broxtowe Guided Walks '11 brochure.  

 

Thursday 9th June 2011
starting at 6:45 p.m. 

Victorian and Edwardian Middle Class Estates

 in Chilwell and Beeston

  (2 miles, just over 2 hours)

from Hop Pole public house, High Road/Chilwell Road, Beeston, (Grid ref. SK 520 360), ending near Beeston Police Station. This walk takes in four residential estates built in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first of these is the Cottage Grove estate, laid out in 1848 (and now a conservation area), and then the walk will pass through the Belle Vue Park (1881), the Imperial Park, and the St John’s Grove area (1878: conservation area 1994)., It will give you some idea of how middle and lower middle class housing areas were created on the rising slopes towards Bramcote, at different periods and with different social classes in mind. led by Prof. John Beckett For more details call 0115 925 2577.  Public Transport to the start:  TrentBarton Indigo or NCT 36 or YourBus Y36, to Hop Pole / Wilmot Lane stop. Return afterwards by the same bus services from the Beeston Police station stop or Beeston Bus Station.

 

Thursday 28th July 2011 
starting at 7:00 p.m.

Beeston Heritage Trail: Beeston east

(just over 2 miles, 2.5 hours)

from 131 Queens Road, at the former Valley Mission (now Denz Children’s Play Centre), NGR SK 536 369, opposite Texaco garage. A linear walk, starting from Queens Road , built as a bypass, we work our way through a former industrial area, with terraces of housing for its workers, an unusual war memorial, then a scientific observatory built by a local FRS, before finishing near to Dagfa House led by Robin Phillips and Alan Dance For more details call 0115 967 7260.  Public Transport to the start:  NCT 13 & 14 to Hawthorn Grove (on Queens Road), or TrentBarton Indigo to University West entrance (and a five minute walk along Queens Road). On street car parking: either near Denz Children’s Play Centre on Queen’s Road, or close to our finishing point at Beeston Evangelical church, NGR SK 534 375.  To walk back from the finish to our starting point will take about 10 minutes downhill  Public Transport from the finish: NCT route 36, YourBus Y36 orTrentBarton Indigo.

 

Sunday 11th September 2011 (during Heritage Open Day)
starting at 2:30 p.m.

Beeston Heritage Trail: Beeston Old Village  

(just over 2 miles, just over 2 hours)

from the Podium, Beeston Square.           Close to the Bus Station and the Multi-storey Car Park.  (Grid ref. SK528 368) Starting from the turnpike road which runs through Beeston’s modern centre we move to its original centre, the Manor House, then to houses built as farms in the 17th century.  Returning to the main road we walk to the parish churchyard, with unusual monuments, and memories of the Plague, a solid 19th-century school building refurbished for the 21st century, and the remains of our medieval village cross re-instated by the schoolmaster. led by Robin Phillips For more details call 0115 967 7260.  Public Transport to the start:  TrentBarton Indigo or NCT 13, 14 & 36 or YourBus Y36, to Beeston Bus Station. Return afterwards by the same routes.