Destination Nottinghamshire, England

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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» Destination 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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• Discover Nottinghamshire at-a-glance

» Attenborough Nature Reserve

Attenborough Nature Reserve is a nature reserve at Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, located 7 Kilometres south west of Nottingham city centre At its centre is a building called Attenborough Nature Centre, comprising visitor services and educational facilities. The reserve now covers 145 hectares of lakes, wetland, grassland and scrub …

» 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 …

» Hawton Church

Hawton is an English civil parish of some 70 inhabitants. It is situated to the south of Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, near the River Devon. It played an important part in the English Civil War as a Roundhead encampment against the Royalist stonghold in Newark, and a redoubt earthworks are still visible within the village. It is most famed for the parish church of All Saints, built in the 14th and 15th centuries …

» 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 …

» Rushcliffe Country Park

Rushcliffe Country Park is an open park space covering approximately 210 acres, located on Mere Way just south of Ruddington on the A60 in the borough of Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire. The park is free to enter & attracts approximately 250,000 visitors a year. Rushcliffe Country Park has maintained the Green Flag award for two years; the national standard for parks & green spaces in the United Kingdom & Wales …

» Rufford Abbey

Rufford Abbey is an estate in Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, England. It was originally a Cistercian abbey. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century it became a country house. Part of the house was demolished in the 20th century, but the remains, together with the grounds, are open to the public …

» 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 …

» Sherwood Observatory

Sherwood Observatory is an amateur astronomical observatory in Nottinghamshire, England, owned and operated by Mansfield and Sutton Astronomical Society. The main dome is 6.5m in diameter and houses a 0.61 m Newtonian Reflecting telescope. There is a club meeting room that hosts society meetings and lectures and also serves as a lecture theatre for the public on open evenings. The complex has workshop, kitchen, office, storage and toilet facilities …

» 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 …

» Welbeck Abbey

Welbeck Abbey near Clumber Park in North Nottinghamshire was the principal abbey of the Premonstratensian order in England and later the principal residence of the Dukes of Portland. The Abbey's estate was first mentioned in the Domesday Book, where it is recorded as belonging to one Hugh FitzBaldric …

» Wollaton Hall

Wollaton Hall is a country house standing on a small but prominent hill in Wollaton Park, Nottingham, England. The house is now Nottingham Natural History Museum, with Nottingham Industrial Museum in the out-buildings. The surrounding park land is regularly used for large-scale outdoor events such as rock concerts, sporting events and festivals …

» Wollaton Park

Wollaton Park is a deer park and home of Wollaton Hall, Nottingham Natural History Museum and Nottingham Industrial Museum in the heart of Nottingham. In this park, during World War II members of the U.S. 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment were billeted waiting to be parachuted into Europe. A small plaque commemorates this event. Subsequently German prisoners of war were billeted here for employment in the locality between 1945 and 1947 …