Upcoming Tours
Lost in the Wolds Weekender
Highlights: lost villages, foraging, area of outstanding natural beauty.
Lost in the Hills: Bike, Camp, Festival
Highlights: quirky festivals, ancient pubs, scenic rides, chilled camping.
Notts Food & Wine
Highlights: South Notts villages, Stilton cheese, locally made wine, canal paths, country lanes, old railway tracks.
1845 Nottingham Enclosure Act
Highlights: commons, slums, housing developments, urban history, aperitivo.
The Dukeries Weekender
Highlights: The eccentric 5th Duke of Portland and his labyrinthine underground tunnels; the reactionary 4th Duke of Newcastle and his delusional feudal fantasies; dissolved medieval monasteries, enormous country houses and bucolic parkland, inter-woven by miles and miles of level gradient, cycle-friendly public bridleways.
The Luddites
Highlights: The Domestic Lace Industry; Framework Knitting Workshops; Slum Housing; Vernacular Villages; Frame Breaking; Protest, Anarchy and Revolution (almost).
Vienna in Long Eaton
Highlights: Massive Tenement Lace Factories; Abstract Viennese Secessionism; Edwardian Civic Grandeur; High Arts & Crafts Mansions.
North Notts Coalfields
Highlights: Bauhaus Headstocks; a Colliery Model Village Housing Estate; a Ducal Vanity Project.