Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is a county in the East Midlands of England. It borders South Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. The county town is traditionally Nottingham, at 52°57′17″N, 1°09′29″W, though the council is now based in West Bridgford (at a site facing Nottingham over the River Trent).

Nottinghamshire
Geography
Status	Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Origin	Historic
Region	East Midlands
Area - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 27th 2,160 km2 (830 sq mi) Ranked 24th 2,085 km2 (805 sq mi)
Admin HQ	West Bridgford
ISO 3166-2	GB-NTT
ONS code	37
NUTS 3	UKF15/16
Demography
Population - Total (2005 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked 17th 1,041,300 482/km2 (1,250/sq mi) Ranked 10th 762,600
Ethnicity	94.1% White 2.5% S. Asian 1.5% Afro-Carib.
Politics
Nottinghamshire County Council http://www.nottscc.gov.uk/
Executive	Labour
Members of Parliament	Graham Allen Kenneth Clarke Vernon Coaker John Heppell Geoff Hoon John Mann Alan Meale Patrick Mercer Nick Palmer Alan Simpson Paddy Tipping
Districts
Rushcliffe Broxtowe Ashfield Gedling Newark and Sherwood Mansfield Bassetlaw Nottingham (Unitary)

The districts of Nottinghamshire are Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Broxtowe, Gedling, Mansfield, Newark and Sherwood, and Rushcliffe. The City of Nottingham was administratively part of Nottinghamshire between 1974 and 1998 but is now a unitary authority, although it remains part of the county.

National and County cricket player Harold Larwood.

Culture

Nottinghamshire contains the ancestral home of the poet Lord Byron, Newstead Abbey, which he sold in 1818. It is now owned by Nottingham City Council and open to the public.

Settlements and communications

The council house and a tram in Nottingham market square.

The traditional county town, and the largest settlement in the historic and ceremonial county boundaries, is Nottingham. The city is now administratively independent, but suburbs including Arnold, Carlton, West Bridgford, Beeston and Stapleford are still within the administrative county and West Bridgford is now home of the county council.

Places of interest

• Clumber Park
• Creswell Crags
• Rufford Country Park
• Southwell Minster
• Sherwood Forest
• Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem
• Hawton Church
• Nottingham Castle
• Newstead Abbey

Nottinghamshire Media

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  Nottinghamshire numbered districts

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  Robin Hood Statue, Sherwood Forest

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  Hand-drawn map of Lincolnshire and Notthinghamshire from 1576.

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  Newstead Abbey

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  A Cistercian Abbey founded 1147 by Gilbert de Gant. Granted to the Earls of Shrewsbury in 1537. Partly demolished and converted to country house around 1560.

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  Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire - from the north-west

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  A bright morning for Mansfield's Tuesday market, showing the Bentinck Memorial in the centre of the picture.

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  Retford Town Hall with additional Union Jack flag and Union Jack bunting to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's reign in the Diamond Jubilee.

Other websites

• Nottinghamshire County Council
• BBC Nottingham
• Nottinghamshire Indymedia Archived 2008-11-20 at the Wayback Machine
• Visit Nottinghamshire
• Nottinghamshire Police Archived 2020-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
• Flickr Nottingham Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine A collaborative blog from the members of the Nottingham Flickr Group, covering the county as well as the city
• Nottingham Nightclub Guide