The traditional county town, and the largest settlement in the historic and ceremonial county boundaries, is the City of Nottingham. The city is now administratively independent, but towns including Arnold, Carlton, West Bridgford, Beeston, and Stapleford are still within the administrative county, and West Bridgford is where the county council are based. Council, Nottinghamshire County. "Sherwood Forest Country Park". Nottinghamshire County Council . Retrieved 22 August 2020.

Nottinghamshire is home to the Sherwood Forest, known for its association with the legend of Robin Hood. [23] [24] The county town is the city of Nottingham. Towns include Mansfield, Beeston, Carlton, Sutton-in-Ashfield, West Bridgford, and Worksop. Nottinghamshire Demographics | Age, Ethnicity, Religion, Wellbeing". Varbes . Retrieved 10 February 2023. Thoresby Hall was formally owned by Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull acquired the Thoresby lands in 1633, but was killed in the Civil War in 1643. His son Henry Pierrepont, the 2nd Earl, built the first grand house, attributed to the architect Talman, about 1670. [25] Thoresby Hall is now a hotel but the park is open to visitors. [26] Thoresby Hall Laser to scan Robin Hood's prison under Nottingham city". news.BBC.co.uk. BBC News. 20 April 2010. Archived from the original on 1 November 2010 . Retrieved 25 September 2010.

Nottingham

The county has an area of 2,160km 2 (830sqmi) and a population of 1,154,195. The latter is concentrated in the Nottingham built-up area in the south-west, which extends into Derbyshire and has a population of 729,997. The north-east of the county is more rural, and contains the towns of Worksop (44,733) and Newark-on-Trent (27,700). The county is divided into eight districts; seven are part of Nottinghamshire, a two-tier non-metropolitan county, and the City of Nottingham is a unitary area. Labour market statistics for October 2005". www.EastMidlandsObservatory.org.uk. East Midlands Observatory. 2005. Archived from the original on 12 March 2016 . Retrieved 24 December 2005. In 2002, Crocus nudiflorus (Autumn crocus) was voted by the public as the county flower of Nottinghamshire. [29] [30] Nottinghamshire was mapped first by Christopher Saxton in 1576; the first fully surveyed map of the county was by John Chapman, who produced Chapman's Map of Nottinghamshire in 1774. [11] The map was the earliest printed map at a sufficiently useful scale (one statute mile to one inch) to provide basic information on village layout, and the existence of landscape features such as roads, milestones, tollbars, parkland, and mills.

Nottinghamshire has international twinning arrangements with the province of Wielkopolska ( Greater Poland) in western Poland, and with the province's capital city, Poznań. [28]Annual average temperature for the United Kingdom". www.MetOffice.com. Met Office. 2000. Archived from the original on 4 March 2010.

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sherwood Forest". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.24 (11thed.). Cambridge University Press. p.853. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Nottinghamshire § Geology". Encyclopædia Britannica (11thed.). Cambridge University Press. p.827.

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Full Freeview on the Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter". UK Free TV . Retrieved 19 November 2022. During the industrial revolution, the county held much needed minerals such as coal and iron ore, and had constructed some of the first experimental waggonways in the world; an example of this is the Wollaton wagonway of 1603–1616, which transported minerals from bell pitt mining areas at Strelley and Bilborough, this led to canals and railways being constructed in the county, and the lace and cotton industries grew. In the 18th and 19th centuries, mechanised deeper collieries opened, and mining became an important economic sector, though these declined after the 1984–85 miners' strike. Dr. Peter Jarvis The Pelagic Dictionary of Natural History of the British Isles (2020), p. 686, at Google Books Sign up to our dedicated Tour of Britain newsletter to keep up to date with all the latest news and information.