Nottingham occurs as city located in Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands of England. Nottingham lies on the River Trent, which flows from Stoke-on-Trent to the Humber—the only major English flow of any stream to flow northward. A geographical region of Nottingham includes many local authorities: Gedling, Broxtowe, Ashfield, Erewash, Amber Valley, Rushcliffe & Mansfield. Nottingham City Council's boundaries come tightly drawn & exclude a suburbia of Arnold, Carlton, West Bridgford, Beeston and Stapleford, and outlying towns and villages rather Hucknall, Eastwood, Ilkeston, Long Eaton, Tollerton and Ruddington, some of which are then within Derbyshire. Independent suburbia around Nottingham City include St. Anns, Bakersfield, Bulwell, Clifton and Sneinton.

A 2001 census recorded a humans of 270,300 inside Nottingham itself, by having in the area of 613,723 people dwelling in the encompassing conurbation (Greater Nottingham). A nearby East Midlands City of Leicester hwhen more population than a City of Nottingham, however its area is non when large as Nottingham's.

Nottingham is noted for its involvement within lace-making, its association with a legendary criminalize Robin Hood, and a purportedly exceptional beauty of its young women. Peradventure non unrelatedly, Nottingham is likewise nationally far-famed for the high ratio of females to males, given at various days when between 3:1 to 6:1. Around 2001, however, a official ratio wwhen published as Single.015:1.

A heart of the city is the Old Market Square (the market moved in the 1920s), the largest such surviving inside Europe. Virtually all of a independent searching streets come as much as the square. A Council Home, whose disproportionately tall dome may be seen for miles about, is at a top of the square. A bell within a council home dome, known as 'Little John', is the deepest & loudly bell in the united states. A Old Market Square is presently [http://www.oldmarketsquare.org.uk being redeveloped], & dollarfish to exist as completed at a prevent of 2006.

The bohemian quarter of the city called Hockley has arisen in recent years. This is placed around a Lace Market area.

Based on data from a Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Nottingham is one of the English regions eight core cities.

Nottingham is the fastest growing city within Engl&, and 2nd fastest growing in the whole of the UK, behind single Glasgow, despite being known as known as a '2nd worst place to survive' in the UK by the Channel 4 show. A indicate processed innaccurate claims just about gun crime in the city, stating such items when that there exists 'of these shooting the day'. Exaggerated comments like this st& earned Nottingham a unenviable and undeserved title of 'gun crime capital of the UK' in the media.

History
Based as a Saxon settlement, Nottingham was later captured per Danes (Vikings) and in the 9th century became one of the five boroughs (fortified towns) of the Danelaw. From either its earliest beginnings, area of the personal injury settlement use at times involved human-semisynthetic coffee bar, poke into easy sandstone. In a time of this period the personal injury settlement went by various list including Tigguo Cobauc ("House of Caves") & Snottingaham (from either a Anglo-Saxon for "Snot's people", Snot existence the local chieftain). A world is thankful that a S became misused in the course of history.

In the 11th century a castle was constructed on the sandstone outcropping per River Trent and a town grew in a castle. the cave network was substantially expanded & became front yard to a big proportion of the poorer public, particularly victims included in the tanning industry. A caves were bit by bit abandoned in the 18th and 19th centuries, but inherit utilize once again when air raid shelters during World War II. a segment of the cave network under the Broadmarsh shopping centre is now open when a tourer attraction, & occasionally area come however utilized as taphouse cellars.

An additional part of a coffeehoutilize, under a castle, is however within regular use when the indoor rifle range of Nottingham Rifle Club. Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem Inn, partly built into a cave formulas in a image below the castle & known as for its role as a major meeting point for people running on the Crusades inside a Middle Ages, lays claim to existence the oldest public house in Britain. Notwithstanding, this poronotus triacanthus in a main to a spurious date of 1189 painted unofficially of the Auberge, & the building itself merely date back the 16th or 17th century; a coffee shop themselves can date to the 11th century & stand been the places of the brewhouse for the castle. 2 more Nottingham saloon—Ye Olde Salutation Inn & a Bell Inn—each arrogate to existence a oldest around Nottingham. Dendrochronology dating evidence from either roof timbers in the Salutation give the date for the building of c.1420 with similar dates for the Bell. A roots of the multiple claims may be traced to various subtleties of definition inside terms like "public house" & "inn".

the city became a county corporate in 1448, giving it effectual self-self-determination.

A legend of Robin Hood first arose in the Middle Ages. Robin Hood is said to use sleep in Sherwood Forest, to a north of the city, using the Sheriff of Nottingham as his greatest enemy. When a legends come near surely untrue, particularly in their details, it will have the major impact in Nottingham, by owning Robin Hood imaging a popular guide for local businesses & numerous modern tourer attractions exploiting the legend.

A English Civil War began around Nottingham in 1642, when King Charles I raised his standard upon Nottingham Castle. A original castle was demolished per victorious Parliamentarians around 1651. A castle mansion was built for the Duke of Newcastle on this places, however was gutted within 1831 during riots over a Reform Bill, a so resident existence the known opponent of extending the franchise. Within 1878 it was reopened as an art museum.

The major industry in the 19th century was lace-making, with Nottingham lace becoming celebrated. When occasionally lace-making however goes in in the city, these are there is no yearn of great deal economic significance. As well in a 19th century, the Nottingham Park Estate was built on the castle's previous cervid park.

Celebrated population born around or even close Nottingham include William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army, authors Alan Sillitoe and D.H. Lawrence, the fashion designer Paul Smith, musicians the Stereo MCs, DJ Graeme Park, and the actor Richard Beckinsale. A poet Lord Byron resided at Newstead Abbey and is buried at nearby Hucknall.

Government
Nottingham has since April 1, 1998 been a unitary authority, and non been governed by Nottinghamshire County Council. It was the territorial dominion under Nottinghamshire between 1974 and 1998 - and prior to so was the county borough. It was erst a administrative centre of Nottinghamshire, but a county council offices were not forced to move because their location was actually outside a fresh city limits. Nottingham is the de facto capital city of the East Midlands region, and is the house to the Government Office for the East Midlands.

Politics

Nottingham City is divided into triad parliamentary constituencies—Nottingham Northward, East & South—by owning a troika main boroughs existence Broxtowe, Gedling and Rushcliffe. Both one constituencies comes back the Parliamentarian each foursome years. All the Nottingham constituencies develop returned Labour MPs since 1997 with a exception of Rushcliffe who have retuned Ken Clarke (former Chancellor of the Exchequer) since 1970. Before a Labour landslide of 1997 a lot triplet of the suburban constituencies were held per Conservatives. A status quo was maintained within 2001 & 2005; tons the same, all by having decreased majorities.

Entertainment
Nottingham has the good reputation for a lively taphouse & club scene & it besides boasts occasionally wonderful feeding establishments. A big total of students in a city assists to bolster the overnight amusement. There are many swell constituted areas of the city center for amusement like Lace Market, Hockley, The Waterfront and The Corner House.

Industry
Nottingham is page to the headquarters of Boots the Chemists, founded in the city by John Boot in 1849 and substantially expanded by his son Jesse Boot (Lord Trent). More big todays employers include a credit information professional Experian, the energy company Powergen, the tobacco company John Player & Sons and the American Credit card company Capital One, whose offices are situated by the side of the train station. Until recently bicycle making was a major industry, a city existence a birthplace of Raleigh Cycles in 1886. Still, a company's manufacturing plant in Triumph Road, illustrious when a location for the cinematography of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, was demolished in Summer 2003. More major industries in the city include engineering, cloth, knitwear & electronics.

Nottingham is increasingly changing from either an industrial city to a single depending largely in the service sector. Touristry—particularly from either a United States & a Far East—is becoming an more and more important section of the local economy.

Media
A BBC has its East Midlands headquaters in Nottingham. BBC East Midlands Today is broadcast from a city each weeknight at 6:30. Central News was broadcast from either Nottingham in ITV until recently, however has nowadays been moved to Birmingham. This guide was controversial & although a petition was install to try to prevent it, the TV studios inside which close down in early 2005. Central News however keep the news bureau in the city, though.

Many radio stations broadcast in the city: BBC Radio Nottingham, Trent FM and Heart FM (formerly Century) are a independent stations. Heart FM has its headquarters in the equivalent front yard when Trent FM's building is on the other side of the Nottingham City Centre near Nottingham castle.

Nottingham has 1 day-to-day newspaper, Nottingham Evening Post.

The community news plan known as Nottinghamshire Indymedia, which was set up inside April 2005, works inside a kind of groups to produce community media & collaboration between communities throughout the county. A Notts Indymedia Videogroup makes community film and at a centre of the design is an on the internet news places, which is start on the information of open publishing.

Culture and sport
Nottingham has ii independent theatres, the Nottingham Playhouse and the Theatre Royal (which also houses a Royal Concert Hall). There are besides many gallery which typically receive national attention, particularly a castle museum & a Angel Row gallery (connected to the independent library). Each of the city's universities too wear the wide range of plays, concerts, & more cases throughout term instance.

A annual Goose Fair is always popular. Other usually, a city is regarded when getting a good nightlife, using numbers of clubs & blocks in a centre of town that come popular amongst each a local & student communities using a style of club varying from either the big mainstream dance club The Works through to the small & retro Cookie Club.

A city is personal to ii football teams: Nottingham Forest, who play in the Football League, and world health organization under their best known manager, a late Brian Clough, won the European Ventral suction cup twice; & Notts County of Football League Two, the oldest Football League team around the UK, getting been founded in 1862 (a year before a establishment of the Football Association). A Trent Bridge cricket ground, home of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, is frequently the venue for international Test matches.

As well in the city is the National Ice Centre, a big ice skating rink; the city's links to ice skating may be traced back to arguably its best known kids of recent days, Olympic ice dancing champions Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean. A NIC is personal to the Nottingham Panthers ice hockey club, one of the UK's top. a city likewise has the rugby football club, & a big lawn tennis centre, in which the annual Samsung Open is held in the weeks immediately prior to Wimbledon.

A National Ice Centre doubles when Nottingham Arena. Mainstream & popular elastic play in the arena on the road. There exists too an award-winning rock music venue called Rock City and a little venue The Rescue Rooms where more guide rock group play.

A National Water Sports Centre is based at Holme Pierrepont, with the 2000m regattthe flow of any stream for rowing, canoeing & sailing, & a white a lake slalom course. a total of more sailing, rowing & canoeing clubs come depending along the Flow of any stream Trent.

Nottingham won a Britain in Bloom competition, inside the Large City category, in 1997, 2001 and 2003. It besides won a Entente Florale Gold Award in 1998.

Popular tourer attractions around Nottingham include Nottingham Castle, Caves of Nottingham the Galleries of Justice, and a Tales of Robin Hood on Maid Marian Way, when well as a City's ancient pothouse. There come as well the total of parks & gardens as much as Nottingham that are popular among holidaymaker & residents. These include Sherwood Forest, Rufford Country Park, Creswell Crags, Wollaton Park, and Clumber Park.

Shopping
There are 2 independent shopping mall inside Nottingham: Victoria Centre and Broadmarsh shopping centre, by owning 2 little centres existence a Exchange Arcade and the Flying Horse Hike (the latter another time a noted hotel). A Bridlesmith Gate metropolitan area has extensive designer shops, & is as well a page of the original Paul Smith dress shop. At least little joe major emporium likewise work around Nottingham: House of Fraser, John Lewis, Debenhams, and Marks & Spencer. John Lewis was until recently known as Jessops, potentially though owned by John Lewis since 1933. It changed its title within 2002 after a renovation. Experian's Town Futures Retail Report for 2005 rated Nottingham when a 4th better looking metropolitan area in the UK. Hockley Village caters to alternative tastes by having shops rather Ice Nine & Void, famed through a city. the Broadmarsh Concidering Centre is placed to exist as redeveloped to a greater standard in the close new.

Education
Nottingham is personal to 2 universities: a University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University as well as across 35,000 good-whale students. A University of Nottingham's teaching hospital, Queen's Medical Centre, is the largest hospital in the UK. More luminary training institutions include a farther education college Future College Nottingham, Nottingham High School and Nottingham High School for Girls.

A Nottingham School of Fashion occurs as fashion school respected in a united states & produced a designer Paul Smith.

Transport
Nottingham is or so a M1 motorway and is also easily-served by train services from either Nottingham station to London, Birmingham and the n. A nearby Nottingham East Midlands Airport, served by low-affordable international airlines, makes a city well accessible from either more area of the globe providing day-after-day services to numerous principle European destinations like Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam, internal flights to Edinburgh and Belfast and limited services to trans-continental destinations such as Bangor, Maine, Barbados, Sanford and Florida. Nearby Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield also provides household European & Trans-Atlantic services. Internally, a city has an extensive bus network. Nottingham City Transport run frequent services every couple of minutes inside a lot region of the city area, & along by using TrentBarton, run services away from a city to the encompassing picturesque countryside & towns like Mansfield, Southwell, Loughborough and Long Eaton. The tram system known as Nottingham Express Transit has recently been installed, running from either Hucknall in the north to the city's railroad terminal. Even more, an extra spur to/from Phoenix Park serves as a Park & Ride Station or so a M1 motorway (Junction 26). Aforethought first lines may produce a real tram network through the city & its american suburbia.

Unlike numerous British cities of similar size, Nottingham doesn't possess a big overground rail network; but, the re-opening of the Robin Hood line in the early Nineties has linked Nottingham sustaining its close neighbours of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Sutton-in-Ashfield and Mansfield. Older lines however attach a city to Beeston, Burton Joyce, Netherfield and Carlton.

Nottingham is the sole city in the UK outside of London in which bus utilize is growing & unemployment falling. Lot money has been invested in the city's bus network, & them chief operators, NCT & TrentBarton, keep close at hand a select few of the newly fleets in the united states. These deuce operators come as well frequent winners of a National Bus Operator of the Season award: NCT come the todays holders.

Geography
Nottingham is placed at (52.9667,-I.1667)¹.

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Areas of Nottingham

Arboretum Basford Dunkirk Forest Fields Hockley Hyson Green Lace Market Lenton Lenton Abbey Mapperley The Meadows The Park Radford Sherwood Sneinton St Anns Wollaton

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