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The East Midlands is one of the regions of England and consists of most of the eastern half of the traditional region of the Midlands. It consists of the combined area of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and most of Lincolnshire.
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Discover DERBYSHIREDerbyshire 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 there for the 2005 film adaptation of the novel, starring Keira Knightley ... |
| DERBYSHIRE: Buxton, Chesterfield, Derby, Derby Industrial Museum, ... see all Derbyshire |
Discover LEICESTERSHIRELeicestershire 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 ... |
| LEICESTERSHIRE: Beacon Hill, Belvoir Castle, Bosworth Battlefield, Charnwood Museum, Donington Park, Moira Furnace, ... see all Leicestershire |
Discover LINCOLNSHIRELincolnshire 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 generally only shops in Lincoln, larger market towns, and resorts and industrial towns of the North Sea coast remaining open. Some towns and villages still observe half-day closing on Thursdays ... |
| LINCOLNSHIRE: Cleethorpes, Lincoln, Lincoln Cathedral, Skegness, ... see all Lincolnshire |
Discover NORTHAMPTONSHIREMuch 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 ... |
| NORTHAMPTONSHIRE: Castle Ashby, Delapré Abbey, Kirby Hall, Northampton Cathedral, Rockingham Castle, Silverstone Circuit, ... see all Northamptonshire |
Discover NOTTINGHAMSHIRENottinghamshire 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 ... |
| NOTTINGHAMSHIRE: NOTTINGHAM, Clumber Park, Creswell Crags, Newstead Abbey, Sherwood Forest, Southwell Minster, ... see all Nottinghamshire |
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