On the Creswell Crags Road are Brook Cottages, 3 stone built cottages of the 19th century.
The site was the subject of the BBC Radio 4 documentaries Unearthing Mysteries and Nature and featured in the 2005 BBC Two television programme Seven Natural Wonders, as one of the wonders of the Midlands.
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The discoveries, made by Paul Bahn, Sergio Rippoll and Paul Pettit, included an animal figure at first thought to be an ibex but later identified as a stag.
Today it is best known for Creswell Crags and Creswell Model Village but in September 1950 was the scene of one of the worst post nationalisation mining disasters.
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Beyond the village, the landscape has two very unusual features: Creswell Crags and Markland Grips, both are dolomitic limestone gorges but the former is much more important as it has been identified as the home to prehistoric man and Creswell Crags hosts many famous caves.
Elmton is a linear village in the parish of Elmton-with-Creswell in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire approximately equidistant from Bolsover Castle and Creswell Crags.
The heritage site of Creswell Crags, famous for its prehistoric cave art, lies close to the village.
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Due to the local topography Arnold can never have been a haunt of eagles, because they inhabit areas of rocky outcrops, which have formed cliffs; the nearest such location being Creswell Crags, some 20 miles north-west as the eagle flies, although the fish-eating European White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) could have caught fish in the River Trent, which lies a mere 4 miles south-east of Arnold, on the other side of the Mapperley Plains ridge.