Misk Hills

The Misk Hills consist of a gently undulating sandstone plateau between Hucknall and Annesley in the county of Nottinghamshire in the North East Midlands of England.

They are locally considered to be the first hills in the Pennine Chain, and rise to a high point of 170 metres above sea level from the flat plains to the east.

The view over Hucknall from the easternmost height in the range, Diadem Hill, provided the setting for The Dream, a poem by Lord Byron, the Romantic English poet who lived locally in Newstead Abbey.

[3] The Misk Hills are used for a mixture of dairy and arable farming as well as commercial forestry, and are a popular place for walking, horse riding and cycling.

Nearby Hucknall was targeted by bombers as it had an RAF base, a Rolls-Royce engineering facility and numerous coal mines.