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If you are coming by car to the Stags then there is plenty of car parking in and around Field Mill (both FREE and otherwise).

FIELD MILL (QUARRY LANE) CAR PARK

The Stags ground has it's own car park. It can hold a couple of hundred cars. And for Ł1.50 you can leave your car there. It does fill up pretty quickly. I suppose it's a case of "better safe than sorry". The car park itself is on a slope, and there's a couple of attendants directing you into certain spaces. But at the final whistle, it's really a free-for-all as everyone tries to get out at once. You could get lucky and get out straight away, but then again your car could be stuck behind someone who takes their time getting out of the ground. Leaving the game before the final whistle to get away quickly is not really an option, unless you're right on the very front row. When you eventually do leave the car park, the choice of turning left or right might be crucial. A short length of road to the left up to the traffic lights, at the end of Quarry Lane, is fairly quick moving (once you've negotiated any supporter's coaches or Police Transit vans) and if a backlog appears to be forming, the police move in and halt the traffic on the main road to get everyone out, but not always!!

Going to the right, takes you up the long length of Quarry Lane. Problems here are the road narrowing and a narrow bridge over the road (plus you can guarantee that someone is trying to come the other way to pick someone up!). When you get to the end, it's a "queue and wait" scenario as the road ends in a T-junction onto a fairly busy road. Despite this being the most popular way out, there's never a traffic cop directing things when you need one. Eventually one will turn up and try his, or her, best to get things going again. Whichever way you decide to leave by, you could be straight out or you could be stuck for anything up to 15 minutes.

THE EARLY DOORS / M.F.I. / PC WORLD / CURRYS CAR PARK

There's a large free car park situated just off of Nottingham Road, which is supposed to be for the customers of the Early Doors pub, MFI, PC World and Currys. This fills up fairly quickly too, as everyone tries to park as close to the ground (and as close to the nearest pub to the ground) as possible. Still, it's free. And The Early Doors is a favourite with the home and away fans alike. Recently, stewards have appeared around this car park, trying to stop football fans parking and signs threatening wheel-clamping are also on display. It's your choice whether to risk it or not.

Getting out of this car park is also a free-for-all affair. It comes down to getting back as quick as possible and making a quick getaway. The exit is onto the A60 (aka Nottingham Road). Turning left, towards the Town Centre is fairly easy, but going right up the A60 (heading towards Nottingham / A1, can take a while to get away because of traffic coming into town and those leaving from Quarry Lane.

WALKERS BINGO / ABC CINEMA & SAFEWAY CAR PARK

Just a bit further up Nottingham Road is a retail park containing Walkers Bingo, the ABC Cinema and Safeway. It's on the same side of the road as the Early Doors car park, on a road called Park Lane. They all have large car parks, but the entrance to the Safeway one has a sign saying "This car park is free for Safeway customers. A charge of Ł5.00 per hour will be made on non-Safeway customers". How they enforce this, I don't know, but don't say you haven't been warned.

Getting away from these car parks is controlled by traffic lights which means that you'll be able to get away fairly quickly, rather than waiting (and hoping) for some kind person to let you out.

EXTRA INFO : Also just up this road is a drive-thru McDonalds restaurant. And between Park Lane and the entrance to the Early Doors car park is a KFC restaurant (A Pizza Hut is also under construction across the road from the Early Doors pub) - just in case you get the urge for a bit of food after the game and therefore let all the traffic clear away before you make your move towards getting home.

QUARRY LANE

There is no parking on Quarry Lane itself. There's no yellow lines but the police stick their traffic cones out to prevent parking. There are a couple of streets off of Quarry Lane that parking is allowed on. These are Highfield Way (which leads on to Sibthorpe Street) and Bradder Way. There are industrial units on parts of these streets but most are shut on Saturday afternoons. As long as you don't block a unit that is open you should be alright, otherwise you'll hear "Will the owner of car registration number..." played over the PA at the ground, much to your embarrassment.

PLEASE NOTE : If a large away following has travelled down then the police will use part of Highfield Way as a place to park the supporters coaches until the end of the game - Just look out for the cones.

...YOU WANT MORE?

There is a large car park at the Retail Park behind the home North Stand end of the ground. On Saturdays this car park is patrolled and cars have been clamped - it is not patrolled for evening matches as far as we are aware. In the town centre, there are two large "pay-and-display" multi-storey car parks (situated at Tesco's and The Four Season's). Each have spaces for up to 500 cars. There's also a couple of "pay-and-display" car parks on Station Street, situated between the Town Centre and Field Mill.