Proctor's Pleasure Park is now a caravan park. It used to provide boating, train rides, sand pits and side shows. It was so popular, that people came from Leicester, Loughborough and Nottingham on day trips in special trains.

Beyond the Pleasure Park are water-filled gravel pits. The gravel was deposited about 40,000 years ago during the last Ice Age when the whole area was like the Artic tundra and roamed by woolly rhinos, mammoths and reindeer.