Nottinghamshire

Greens Windmill

Located in Sneinton on the edge of Nottingham City center, it's one of the highest points on the hills around the city's edge. Provides good 'urban' photographic views to the south over the Trent valley.

Green's mill is a fully working, flour producing windmill and is open to the public. You can take a tour around/up the mill and meet Dave the miller. It was owned and operated in the 19th century by the mathematical physicist George Green.

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Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre

Built along the side of the River Trent just outside Nottingham. Includes a very long rowing coarse, a fast flowing canoe slalom coarse and calmer practice lakes. It's free to enter any part of Holme Pierrepont and there's plenty of free car parking. During the summer months there's always plenty of activity on the white water canoe / kayak cause. There are walk ways and foot bridges all along the coarse and grassy banks to view from.

Right next to the Slalom coarse is Holme Lock on the River Trent. There's always plenty of narrow boats moored along the lock and river banks.

If you carry on along the lane that leads to the main Holme Pierrepont centre, (or turn left when leaving the car parks) after about a mile you'll see a left turn sign for 'Ski Tow Centre'. I think this is part of Holme Pierrepont, but most visitors miss it as it's sort of 'separate' and not easily reached from the main car - unless you walk about 1 mile!!

The Ski Tow centre is for water skiing, but instead of motor boats the skiers are pulled around by a mechanical pulley system (think of a ski lift). This makes it great for viewing as there's always a Skier or Ski Boarder passing you.

Southwell Minster

Southwell Minster is a minster and a cathedral, located in the town of Southwell in North Nottinghamshire, 14 miles north east of Nottingham. It is the seat of the Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham. Southwell Minster is considered to be a great example of Norman and Early English architecture. The distinctive pyramidal spires of lead (or 'pepperpot'), the only example of their kind in the UK, uniquely overlap the footprint of the tower walls and are particularly noteworthy.

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Suffolk

Thorpeness

Thorpeness is a small seaside village just up the coast from Aldeburgh in Suffolk. The whole village was built as a holiday village in what had been the old fishing hamlet of Thorpe, by a Scottish landowner - Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie. The whole place is very pretty in a quaint English village kind of way, with a lovely pond in the centre. All the houses look similar - like something for hundreds of years ago.

Most famous for 'The House in the Clouds', a house built at the top of an old water tower. But the old windmill, that used to pump water up to the old water tank, next to the raised house is equally photogenic.

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