Vicar Water

Vicar Water
Vicar Pond, which is fed by Vicar Water
Location
CountryEngland
CountyNottinghamshire
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationClipstone Country Park
MouthRiver Maun
 • location
Clipstone
Vicar Water
River Maun
Clipstone Junction
B6030 Mansfield Road Bridge
Waterworks Drive pumping station
Baulker Lane Bridge
Former railway bridge
Railway bridge
Former railway bridge
Vicar Pond
Railway
Footbridge
Vicar Water Country Park
Footbridge
Ponds

Vicar Water is a small river in Nottinghamshire, England. It is a tributary of the River Maun, and runs through an area which was once the royal hunting ground of Clipstone Park. It gained its present name in the early nineteenth century, and was dammed in 1870, in order to make a trout fishery, which was used to stock the lakes at nearby Welbeck Abbey. Since the cessation of coal mining, much of it has been incorporated into a country park, and is a designated Local Nature Reserve.