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The East Midlands is probably best known for its Robin Hood connections and,
indeed, there are many associated sites to visit. Here are other places of
interest for visiting Pagans (I am sure there are many more and would be
happy to put enquirers in touch with any of my RCs in the different regions):
Nottinghamshire:
Oxton Camp - Iron Age hillfort.
There is a standing stone in Bramcote Park.
Cresswell Crags are palaeolithic caves, with cave art in some of them.
Bottesford Church contains the 'Witchcraft Tomb'.
Wellow has one of the few permanent maypoles in the country and holds a traditional May celebration on Spring Bank Holiday Monday.
Southwell Minster has a chapter house full of Green Men.
Gotham (remember the tale of the Three Wise Men?) is in Notts.
Lincolnshire:
Honington Camp is an Iron Age fort.
The Cathedral has a few Green Men and the famous Lincoln Imp.
Rutland:
There is a turf maze at Wing, on the southern edge of Rutland Water - only 8 remain, in Britain.
Leicestershire:
Borrough Hill is a magnificent Iron Age hillfort.
Breedon Church is Saxon and stands on an Iron Age hillfort - very atmospheric!
The Hallaton Hare Pie Scramble and Bottle Kicking takes place on Easter Monday.
Derbyshire:
A Pagan's dream! Full of Bronze Age burial grounds, stone circles, cairns and tumuli.
Stanton Moor - around 70 cairns and stone circles. The best known is the Nine Ladies, currently threatened by quarrying proposals - Eco-warriors are at the site.
The Nine Stones, on Harthill Moor. Only four of them - thought to be the remains of a burial chamber.
Arbor Low. A recumbent circle of around 50 stones, with four in the centre. Has a Bronze Age tumulus on one edge and Gib Hill (another Bronze Age tumulus) is yards away.
Wet Withens is a circle on Eyam Moor (Eyam is famous as the 'Plague Village' - well worth a visit).
The three Barbrook Circles are on East Moor, near Baslow. The area also has cairns.
Well-dressing goes on in many villages - Tissington is probably the best known. Lovely place, with several wells.
Cromford has a wonderful old bookshop, called Scarthins. Books from floor to ceiling, with veggie cafe upstairs.
Matlock Bath has a Museum of Mining - the area is well known for it's ores and minerals. There is a petrifying well there, too.
Castleton - caves (notably the Blue John mine) and, of course, the famous Garland Ceremony on May 29th.
Ashbourne has it's Shrove Tuesday Football.
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