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==Recreation== ===Sport=== ====Recreation facilities==== [[File:Sutton-in-Ashfield - Lammas Leisure Centre.jpg|thumb|top|right|Lammas Leisure Centre]] Sutton-in-Ashfield has had a public swimming pool since 1926. The first one was built on Brook Street and was paid for by the local Miners Welfare fund. Initially, the pool was only open during the summer months, with the pool being covered and used as a dancehall in the winter. In 1969, a new 25m-long pool (with high diving board and 4m deep end) was opened next door to the original pool (which was from then on used as a teaching pool).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Brook Street Swimming Pools|publisher=Our Nottinghamshire|url=http://www.ournottinghamshire.org.uk/page_id__516.aspx|access-date=13 August 2015}}</ref> In the 1970s, as part of the construction of the Sutton Centre School, a public ice rink was provided.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sutton Centre Ice Rink|publisher=Lammas Ice Skating Club|url=http://www.lammasisc.co.uk/about-us/4569598389|access-date=13 August 2015}}</ref> In 2008, the Brook Street swimming pools and the Sutton Centre ice rink were closed and the Lammas Leisure Centre on Lammas Road opened. The formal opening was performed by Dame Kelly Holmes. The Lammas Leisure Centre has 2 swimming pools (main and teaching), an ice rink (home to Sutton Sting Ice Hockey Academy), a gym, a multi-purpose sports hall and an indoor bowling green.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lammas Leisure Centre Opening|publisher=Ashfield CHAD|url=http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/video-dame-kelly-opens-new-163-16m-lammas-leisure-centre-1-705958|access-date=13 August 2015}}</ref> ====Sports clubs==== There is a local athletics club, the Sutton-in-Ashfield Harriers & Athletics Club,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sutton-in-ashfield-harriers.com/|title=Sutton in Ashfield Harriers & Athletics Club|website=sutton-in-ashfield-harriers.com|access-date=9 January 2023}}</ref> and swimming club associated with both local schools and the Lammas Leisure Centre itself. There is also the Coxmoor Golf Club on Coxmoor Road (B6139), next to the A611. As a result of local council grant applications for sport development, Sebastian Coe opened a new athletics track for the town at the nearby Ashfield School in February 2007. ====Sutton Town AFC==== Sutton Town was a football club founded in 1923. Known as the Snipes, the team was a member of the Midland League from 1923 to 1927. The club was reborn in 1958 and was a member of the Midland League until 1982 when the club became a founding member of the Northern Counties East League.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fchd.info/SUTTONTA.HTM|title=Football Club History Database - Sutton Town [Ashfield]|website=www.fchd.info}}</ref> In 1992, the team name was changed to Ashfield United, but the team folded after the 1996β97 season.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fchd.info/ASHFIELU.HTM|title=Football Club History Database - Ashfield United|website=www.fchd.info}}</ref> North Notts Football Club began operations in 2000 as a member of the Central Midlands League, changing its name to [[Sutton Town AFC]] for the 2001β03 season.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fchd.info/N-NOTTS.HTM|title = Football Club History Database - North Notts}}</ref> The team finished runner up in 2002β03, winning promotion to the Northern Counties East League. In 2004-05 the club won promotion to the NCEL Premier Division. However, in 2007β08, the club resigned from the NCEL and moved down the football pyramid to the Central Midlands League.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fchd.info/SUTTTXNN.HTM|title=Football Club History Database - Sutton Town 2002|website=www.fchd.info}}</ref> The club was promoted to the East Midlands Counties League in 2013 but in June 2014 the club resigned from the league after they were unable to come to a suitable agreement over a lease at home ground "The Fieldings" that would enable them to get promoted in the future, which was a league requirement.<ref>{{cite news|title=Snipes ponder future after resignation|url=http://www.chad.co.uk/sport/football/snipes-ponder-future-after-resignation-1-6695624|access-date=29 August 2014|publisher=chad.co.uk|date=26 June 2014}}</ref> ====Greyhound racing==== A [[Greyhound racing in the United Kingdom|greyhound racing]] track was opened around the Avenue Ground situated on the Mansfield Road behind the Pot Makers Arms, a venue used by Sutton Town AFC. The first meeting took place on 14 May 1932. The racing was independent (not affiliated to the sports governing body the [[National Greyhound Racing Club]]) and was known as a flapping track, which was the nickname given to independent tracks.<ref>{{cite book|last=Barnes|first=Julia|title=Daily Mirror Greyhound Fact File, page 413|year=1988|publisher=Ringpress Books|isbn=0-948955-15-5}}</ref> Racing came to an end there on 13 May 1972.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://greyhoundracingtimes.co.uk/2019/01/08/sutton-in-ashfield/|title=Sutton in Ashfield|date=8 January 2019|publisher=Greyhound Racing Times}}</ref> ===Kings Mill reservoir=== [[Image:Kings Mill Reservoir, Mansfield (4).jpg|thumb|Kings Mill Reservoir at dusk]] The reservoir, which lies within Sutton in Ashfield itself and not in the neighbouring town of Mansfield, is home to the Mill Adventure Base<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/education/outdoor-and-environmental-education/outdoor-education/the-mill|title = The Mill Adventure Base | Notts Outdoors}}</ref> with sailing activities. This is one of three Nottinghamshire adventure bases, with the other two at [[Holme Pierrepont]] (Lakeside) and [[Worksop]] (Sandhill), all of which are available for people aged 11β19. The sailing club has used the reservoir since 1959.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.suttoninashfieldsailingclub.co.uk/wp/|title=Sutton In Ashfield Sailing Club|website=Sutton-in-Ashfield Sailing Club .....on Kings Mill Reservoir}}</ref> Kings Mill received its name from a mill on the north-east of the reservoir, once owned by John Cockle and his wife, who gave [[Henry II of England]] a night's lodgings and breakfast during his reign.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/suttoninashfield1907/sutton8.htm#miller|title = Nottinghamshire history > History of Sutton-in-Ashfield or past links with the present, (1907)}}</ref> ===Nature=== To the west is the {{convert|250|acre}} [[Brierley Forest Park]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.greenflagaward.org.uk/winners/GSP000999/ |title=Description of Brierley Forest Park |access-date=26 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090909032817/http://www.greenflagaward.org.uk/winners/GSP000999/ |archive-date=9 September 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> built on the site of Sutton Colliery, also known as Brierley Colliery, which was named due to many of the miners coming from [[Brierley Hill]]. It is a nature reserve and opened in 1999, it holds the [[Green Flag Award]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.greenflagaward.org.uk/winners/east-midlands/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815064436/http://www.greenflagaward.org.uk/winners/east-midlands/|url-status=dead|title=List of Green Flag Award holders|archivedate=15 August 2009}}</ref> Kings Mill Reservoir is also a nature reserve.
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