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The Industrial Archaeology Section will be holding it’s annual maintenance working party at Morley Park blast furnaces. We will be undertaking fence repairs, vegetation management and litter picking. Everyone is welcome to come along and help, or simply to learn about the site. We will meet on the lane leading to Morley Park farm at 1000.

John Morrissey will lead a one-and-a-half mile walk on paved surfaces throughout, some on slopes. We will look inside the Museum and the Church of St Edward King and Martyr, and then at some of the other 72 listed buildings (everything except a castle!).

Meet at 10.30am inside the 1794 Donington Manor Hotel, High Street, Castle Donington, DE74 2PP for tea/coffee and biscuits (no charge) and to see the fine contemporary plaster ceiling in the dining room. The Hotel is a striking building and lies on the High Street just north of the traffic lights beside the small bus interchange serving Skylink services from Derby and Nottingham.

Parking is available at the Donington Manor Hotel for the duration of the walk. The Derby to Leicester Skylink bus service runs every 15 minutes from Derby bus station and the journey to Castle Donington takes about 30 minutes.

THIS VISIT IS FULLY BOOKED