Butler's Hill is a residential area near to the town centre of Hucknall

Hucknall

Hucknall, formerly known as Hucknall Torkard, is a town in Greater Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, in the district of Ashfield. The town was historically a centre for framework knitting and then for mining but is now a focus for other industries as well providing housing for workers in...

. It is approximately seven miles north-west of Nottingham

Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...

, England

England

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Butler's Hill has its own tram stop on the Hucknall branch of the Nottingham Express Transit

Nottingham Express Transit

Nottingham Express Transit is a light-rail tramway in the Nottingham area in England. The first line opened to the public on 9 March 2004, having cost £200 million to construct. The scheme took sixteen years from conception to implementation...

. The footbridge over the tram stop links Butler's Hill with Bestwood Village

Bestwood Village

Bestwood Village is a village in the Gedling district of Nottinghamshire.It is part of the civil parish of Bestwood St. Albans. A small part of the village falls within the Ashfield district council area...

 via the Mill Lakes, part of Bestwood Country Park.

The nearby Broomhill park was the former site of Sherwood Zoo

Zoo

A zoological garden, zoological park, menagerie, or zoo is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred....

, which went bankrupt

Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a legal status of an insolvent person or an organisation, that is, one that cannot repay the debts owed to creditors. In most jurisdictions bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor....

in 1976