Destination East Midlands

The East Midlands is known historically for its food - Red Leicester, Lincolnshire sausages, Melton Mowbray pork pies, Stilton cheese, Bakewell tarts, and Bramley apples. D. H. Lawrence is the region's best known author, although only gained full recognition in the late twentieth century. Also from Nottingham, William Booth who founded The Salvation Army in 1865.

• East Midlands at-a-glance

» Destination Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a mixture of a rural economy in the west, with a former coal mining economy in the east. Derbyshire is the location of Fitzwilliam Darcy's mansion in the Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice. Some scenes were filmed here for the 2005 film adaptation of the novel, starring Keira Knightley …

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» Destination Leicestershire

Leicestershire was recorded in the Domesday Book in four wapentakes: Guthlaxton, Framland, Goscote and Gartree. These later became hundreds, with the division of Goscote into West Goscote and East Goscote, and the addition of Sparkenhoe. In 1087, the first recorded use of the name was as Laegrecastrescir …

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» Destination Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a rural area where the pace of life is generally slower than much of the UK. Sunday is still largely a day of rest, with shops generally open only in Lincoln, larger market towns, and resorts and industrial towns of the North Sea coast. Some towns and villages still observe half-day closing on Thursdays …

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» Destination Northamptonshire

Much of Northamptonshire's countryside appears to have remained somewhat intractable with regards to early human occupation, resulting in an apparently sparse population and relatively few finds from the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods. About 500 BC the Iron Age was introduced into the area …

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» Destination Nottinghamshire

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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» The Peak District

The Peak District is an upland area in central and northern England, lying mainly in northern Derbyshire, but also covering parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, and South and West Yorkshire. Most of the area falls within the Peak District National Park, whose designation in 1951 made it the first national park in the British Isles …

» Discover Rutland

The only towns in Rutland are Oakham, the county town, and Uppingham. At the centre of the county is the large artificial reservoir, Rutland Water, with a similar surface area to Windermere. It is an important nature reserve serving as an overwintering site for wildfowl and a breeding site for ospreys …