BINGHAM -
Nowadays Bingham is a dormitory town for Nottingham, lying as it does,
just 10 miles east of the city centre on the A52 between Nottingham
and Grantham.
CASTLES appear
in England in the mid to late 11th century
and become closely bound up in the story of the Norman Conquest. Defining
them is difficult.
CRESWELL
CRAGS is
a valley in limestone rock with a watercourse (Millward Brook) running through
it and caves on either side. The caves were hollowed out by
the action...
GARDENS -
Nottinghamshire has a strong horticultural tradition going back to the
creation of the 'Dukeries' in the north of the county in the 17th and
18th centuries.
GOOSE
FAIR goes
back some 1,000 years.
Its origins are not, contrary
to belief, based on geese but was a Goods
Fair held to stock up before the onset of winter.
LANDSCAPE -
The landscape of an area is perhaps the most primary source of all for
local historians and it provides a depth of information
which is almost inexhaustible
MANSFIELD -
Mansfield is an ancient Nottinghamshire market town which, by mid-Victorian times, became the county's second largest township.
NEWARK-ON-TRENT's
importance derives from its location at the intersection of major communication
routes: the River Trent, the Fosse Way and the Great North Road.
NOTTINGHAM -
Long before Nottingham was established in the tenth century people had settled
in and around the area north of the Trent flood plain.
PAPPLEWICK
PUMPING STATION is
Britain’s finest working Victorian water pumping station. The site
has recently undergone extensive restoration...
RETFORD
- No castle or major church is associated with Retford
but it has been argued that its very ordinariness makes it “stand
as a template for English small town life”
SHERWOOD FOREST
- In the public imagination Sherwood Forest will forever be a landscape of sturdy oaks trees and dense greenwood inhabited by Robin Hood....
SOUTHWELL
- Southwell is a small town situated north east of Nottingham on the
A612. It is dominated by the Minster which towers above the town...
VILLAGES -
The county is predominantly rural and the warm red brick and pantile-roofed
village and surrounding farmsteads are characteristic features...
WORKSOP -
The historic parish of Worksop covered 18,220 acres and was the largest in Nottinghamshire; in addition to the town it covered the settlements of Radford, Ratcliffe...