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Visit the Major Oak, Nottinghamshire

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A dog friendly stop on the road from Sheffield to Newark. Avoids motorway. Free car park for RSPB members. Cafe was dog friendly.

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Louise_Herschel

Walnut 615 Points
16 February 2025

Plenty of trails & walks

We did the bigger wildwood trail. It bypasses the major oak initially but you do pass it on the way back!

There are plenty of trails to do, but at least 3 are signposted with the wildwood trail being the bigger. You can download a map to plan your route if needed, but once we had decided the route, we just followed the paths. The woodland is fairly spaced out and there was plenty of opportunity for dogs to be off lead.

I didnt have any inconsiderate encounters with any dogs we met and if they saw my boy on the lead, they put theirs on.

We went shortly after there had been some rain and although slightly boggy in places, there were plenty of paths around to avoid bog! There is a cafe & visitor centre. There's a little shopping village which you can walk through.

I'd highly recommend it as a walk. The car park is a bit annoying, and people do inconsiderately park, making it hard to maximise the availability to park. Add on people ignoring the one way system to try and beat you to a space. There is a £5 pay and display (which you can do on your mobile). if you're an rspb member, it's free. I can imagine it gets incredibly busy in the summer months/ half term. I believe there is some residential nearby with no street parking limits.

Edited: 16th February 2025. The details of this listing may have changed, and though the Driving with Dogs team do our best to confirm the accuracy of every listing, we cannot guarantee that the details are fully up to date and accurate.