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Nottinghamshire lies on the Roman Fosse Way, and there are Roman settlements in the county, for example at Mansfield. The county was settled by Angles around the 5th century, and became part of the Kingdom, and later Earldom, of Mercia.

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Discover NOTTINGHAM Nottingham is home to a multitude of different architectural styles, with buildings dating from the 1100s. Architects such as Alfred Waterhouse, Thomas Chambers Hine and Nottingham's own Watson Fothergill produced elaborate buildings in the 19th century to meet the expansion generated by increasing industrial output ...

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CLUMBER PARK Clumber Park is a country park in the Dukeries near Worksop in Nottinghamshire. It was the seat of the Pelham-Clintons, Dukes of Newcastle. It is owned by the National Trust and open to the public. Clumber, mentioned in Domesday Book was monastic property in the Middle Ages. The park is an excellent place for long walks and has several miles of paths ...

CRESWELL CRAGS Creswell Crags is a limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England near the villages of Creswell, Whitwell and Elmton. The cliffs of the ravine contain several caves that were occupied during the last ice age, between around 43,000 and 10,000 years ago ...

NEWSTEAD ABBEY Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire, originally an Augustinian priory, is now best known as the ancestral home of Lord Byron. The priory of St. Mary of Newstead, a house of Augustinian Canons, was founded by King Henry II about the year 1170, as one of many penances following the murder of Thomas Becket ...

SHERWOOD FOREST Sherwood Forest is a Royal Forest in Nottinghamshire that is famous through its historical association with the legend of Robin Hood. Continuously forested since the end of the Ice Age, Sherwood is today reduced to a 423 square-kilometre remnant surrounding the village of Edwinstowe, the site of Thoresby Hall ...

SOUTHWELL MINSTER Southwell Minster is a minster and cathedral, in Southwell, Nottinghamshire. It is considered an outstanding example of Norman and Early English architecture. The distinctive pyramidal spires of lead (or Rhenish caps or pepperpot spires as they are known locally), the only example of their kind in the UK ...

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