Location

Sherwood Observatory

A planetarium on one of the higher ridges of Nottinghamshire — a dark, round sky held inside a building that used to keep water, and now keeps wonder.

Sherwood Observatory planetarium at dusk: circular brick base, square upper deck and dome
Coxmoor Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire NG17 5LF

Find the dome

Sherwood Observatory sits on Coxmoor Road (the B6139) near Sutton-in-Ashfield, beside Coxmoor Golf Course, a few miles south of Mansfield.

On-site parking is available at the observatory. Sutton Parkway station is about 1.6 miles away.

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Why this room

The planetarium is a 59-seat chamber built into a former underground Victorian reservoir. Brick arches, a modern dome, and a night sky that does not care what time you woke up. It is hard to stay braced when the ceiling is full of stars.

That is the point of holding Space to Breathe here rather than in a hall with strip lights. The architecture does half of the inviting. You only have to accept it.

It is also the evening we can promise you. Cloud, rain and a British sky stay outside; the night in the dome does not cancel. Nina can hold a private session at a location of your choosing when the gathering has to happen somewhere else — a garden, a field, a room that already belongs to you. Same guide, same invitation to pause, and a real sky, which means weather. For a night that will be there regardless, this is the room.

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