Guides · 2026-10-29
Living near Sherwood Forest: Edwinstowe, Ollerton, Clipstone, Rainworth, Ravenshead and Blidworth compared
Around Sherwood Forest, a third to more than half of the land is green space or woodland. We compare six villages on crime, schools, buses, GP access and broadband from the official data.
If you want woods on the doorstep without being far from a town, the villages around Sherwood Forest are hard to beat. They are not all alike, though, and the differences show up clearly in the figures.
Six villages side by side
| Village | Green space within 3 km | Crime per 1,000 residents a year | Schools within 3 km | Bus stops within 800 m | Nearest GP | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edwinstowe | 53.4% | 53 | 3 | 23 | 0.1 km | 85.6% |
| Ollerton | 46.4% | 82 | 7 | 12 | 1.4 km | 50.6% |
| Clipstone | 58.9% | 73 | 7 | 17 | 1.0 km | 85.6% |
| Rainworth | 46.2% | 134 | 5 | 24 | 0.2 km | 85.6% |
| Ravenshead | 50.8% | 28 | 2 | 41 | 0.5 km | 91% |
| Blidworth | 34.2% | 90 | 4 | 24 | 0.1 km | 85.6% |
What stands out
- Clipstone has the most green space of the six, 58.9% of the surrounding area, with Edwinstowe, Ravenshead, Ollerton and Rainworth all above 45%.
- Ravenshead records 28 reports per 1,000 residents a year, one of the four lowest figures of the 121 places in Nottinghamshire and Nottingham with a crime figure on PlaceFit. It also has 41 bus stops within a 10-minute walk.
- Edwinstowe has a GP 0.1 km from the centre and lower recorded crime (53) than its neighbours apart from Ravenshead.
- Rainworth records the most crime of the six (134).
- Broadband is weaker around Ollerton, where about 50.6% of homes can get gigabit, against 91% around Ravenshead.
For families, Ollerton and Clipstone have the most schools in range, seven each. For low recorded crime and buses, Ravenshead stands out. PlaceFit lets you weight green space, schools and everything else to suit you.
Crime figures are reports to the police per resident, not a measure of how safe a street feels. Each place is measured over the 2021 neighbourhoods centred within about 3 km, so neighbouring places share some of the same records, and anywhere close to a busy centre has a higher rate per resident because more people pass through than live there.
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Figures as published on PlaceFit's area pages on 22 October 2026, measured over about 3 km around each place's centre unless stated. Sources: police.uk street-level crime and anti-social behaviour, September 2025 to August 2026, per Census 2021 resident; Get Information about Schools (DfE); NaPTAN bus stops (DfT), within 800 m; NHS England GP practices and branch surgeries (ODS), straight-line distance; Ofcom Connected Nations (broadband July 2025, by postcode district); OS Open Greenspace and OS Open Zoomstack; Environment Agency Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.