About us
Welcome to Ravenshead Parish Council's website, designed to provide information on our activities and give details of facilities available in the Village.
MEETINGS AND DUTIES
The Parish Council has existed since 1987 and comprises 11 Councillors, elected every four years, with a paid part-time Clerk and Proper Officer and meetings are held throughout the year in the Leisure Centre on Longdale Lane.
The full Parish Committee meets at 7.30pm on the third Thursday of each month with the exception of August and December. The Public session starts at 8.30pm.
The Planning Committee meets on the first Monday of each month with the same exceptions, except as from time to time, demand requires
The Finance and General Purpose Committee meets three times per year.
The Development Committee will meet as demand requires and new development proposals arise.
The agenda for each meeting is available for viewing in the Village Library, located in the precinct
The Leisure Centre is run by the Parish Council. It has two sports halls, bowling green, tennis courts, ball court and football pitches. The addition of a Multi Use Games Arena (MUGA) and a state of the art 3G pitch in July 2010, provides sporting facilities for all.
Parish Councils have a range of statutory duties and can raise funding, using a Precept system linked with Council Tax, to provide things such as street furniture and part-finance Village activities. Most of our spend is used for the provision of Leisure Centre Facilities and children's play parks at Haddon Road and Abbey Gates.
Village Facilities
Ravenshead is a pretty dormitory village located on the main Mansfield to Nottingham road, the A60, which passes Ravenshead at Newstead Abbey Park main entrance lying within our boundary at the junction with Longdale Lane and The Hutt Public House. The surrounding borders of Ravenshead are mainly open fields, farms and forest, linked with Blidworth Waye, Rigg Lane, Ricket Lane, Calverton Rd and Kirkby Road.
It is a large village comprising just over 2300 houses, two primary schools and a wide range of other facilities. There is a small shopping precinct, which contains a chiropractor, two estate agents, hairdressers, solicitors, butchers, greengrocers, ironmongers, newsagents, two take-aways and a Spar supermarket. There is also a post office, chemist and library, to which the Police Contact Point is annexed. This is staffed by Volunteers on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 1400pm to 1600pm & Saturdays 1000am to 1200pm.
There is a doctor's surgery and a village hall run by a committee where social events, plays and meetings are held. The Church of Saint Peters on Sheepwalk Lane is well attended with the adjacent church hall to provide a venue for Brownies, dancing classes and social events.
In pictures (click a thumbnail for a larger version)
Walks in and around Ravenshead
Ravenshead offers some fascinating walks. Click the links below to find out more:
- Short walks
- Longer walks
Walks credits and acknowledgements
Walks devised by The Ravenshead Group of The Ramblers Association. Sponsored by Ravenshead Parish Council. Produced by permission from Estate Publications. %uFFFDEstate Publications.
(c) Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Licence num. 100019031
Historical notes
The shopping precinct was built in the early 1960s and the Post Office opened in 1966.
Swinton Rise is named after Herbert Swinton who moved to the area from Hucknall about 1930 and developed large areas of land off Sheepwalk Lane.
All the mature pine trees in Church Drive were planted by Vera Cox (nee Swinton), daughter of Herbert Swinton.
The Sherwood Ranger opened in 1971, the name reflecting the close connection of the district with the former Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry.
Vernon Crescent was named after Vernon, the only child of Mr and Mrs William Dovey, who died from polio at the age of 2. William Dovey bought much of the land at the south end of Sheepwalk Lane and on Longdale Lane, and built a number of the earliest houses here between 1930 and 1936.
Cambourne Gardens: Whilst clearing the land for housing here in 1966, workmen found the Fishpool Gold Hoard. It was the biggest find of gold coins ever in Britain, comprising 1237 coins and also 4 rings, 4 pieces of jewellery and 2 lengths of chain
The Little John pub was build about 1837 by Rowland Ward, a Blidworth draper and farmer.
Chapel Lane is named after the United Free Methodist Chapel, built 1864 and demolished 1960. The church stood where house number 12 now is.
At number 40 Chapel Lane is the Slaney Stone, recording the death on 24th January 1893 of John Slaney of Longdale Farm.