BEESTON - Although situated only four miles west of the centre of the City of Nottingham, Beeston has retained a feeling of independence.

BERRY HILL REHABILITATION CENTRE FOR MINERS - The Berry Hill Hall Rehabilitation Centre, the first of its kind was established in Mansfield in 1939 ...

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.

BROMLEY HOUSE LIBRARY - The idea for a library in Nottingham was conceived in December 1815 when the John Pearson wrote to the Duke of Newcastle announcing plans ...

CARRINGTON - Carrington lies about one and half miles north of the city centre of Nottingham, astride Mansfield Road and Hucknall Road...

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.

CAVES UNDER NOTTINGHAM - The city of Nottingham stands on an outcrop of Triassic sandstone that forms low hills on the north side of the River ...

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...

EDWALTON - Edwalton is an unremarkable village; until less than a century ago its population had not exceeded 300...

FOREST FIELDS - The area known as Forest Fields lies to the north of the Forest Recreation Ground, Nottingham. It inclines northwards from Gregory Boulevard...

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.

HOSPITALS - In the last century and a half the concept of hospitals has changed dramatically. The greatest change is that they now come under the NHS...

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

LAXTON - Laxton is a parish in central Nottinghamshire, in Newark and Sherwood District Council. It is about 4,000 acres in extent. The village lies roughly in the centre ...

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...

PLUMTREE
Physically Plumtree village in Nottinghamshire has remained very much the same over the past two hundred years. The village lies...

RADCLIFFE-ON-TRENT - The village of Radcliffe on Trent lies five miles south-east of Nottingham on the south bank of the River Trent.

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 - Sherwood is predominantly a dormitory suburb of Nottingham, about two miles north of the city centre on the Mansfield Road, formerly the Mansfield...

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..

SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD - The large historic parish of Sutton-in-Ashfield covered an area of 5,861 acres and comprised the townships of Sutton-in-Ashfield and Huthwaite ...

THE DUKERIES - The origins of The Dukeries lay within the confines of Sherwood Forest and were maintained as a game preserve for the aristocracy...

TOLLERTON - Tollerton was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 where it was spelled Troclaveston suggesting that the name of a person is ...

UPTON HALL - Little is known about the original Upton Hall, other than a home had been there since the 1300s. In 1620 Owen Oglethorpe lived in Upton Hall...

VILLAGES - The county is predominantly rural and the warm red brick and pantile-roofed village and surrounding farmsteads are characteristic features...

WEST BRIDGFORD - The village of West Bridgford grew up by the south bank of the River Trent, where the land was level. Further south it rises slightly...

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...