Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. The area is steeped in history and culture and the legend of Robin Hood. Sherwood Forest is a very popular place to explore all year around and the City of Nottingham is vibrant and lively.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rufford Abbey and National Holocaust Centre and Museum.
Rufford Abbey
Photo: Enchufla Con Clave, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rufford Abbey is a country estate in Rufford, Nottinghamshire, England, two miles south of Ollerton. Originally a Cistercian abbey, it was converted to a country house in the 16th century after Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries.
National Holocaust Centre and Museum
Museum
The National Holocaust Centre and Museum, previously known as Beth Shalom, is a Holocaust memorial centre near Laxton in Nottinghamshire in England. Opened in September 1995, Beth Shalom was the first venue in Britain dedicated to the Holocaust as its primary…
St Andrew’s Church, Eakring
Church
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Andrew's Church, Eakring is a Grade II* listed Church of England parish church at Eakring, near Southwell. It belongs to the Deanery of Newark and Southwell in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Edwinstowe and Ollerton.
Edwinstowe
Photo: Andy Stephenson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire is the last surviving tract of primeval forest in England. In medieval times it was a royal hunting forest – the shire or sher wood of Nottinghamshire – and it became the setting for the legend of Robin Hood.
Ollerton
Town
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ollerton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ollerton and Boughton, in the Newark and Sherwood district, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England, on the edge of Sherwood Forest in the area known as the Dukeries.
Boughton
Village
Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boughton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ollerton and Boughton, in the Newark and Sherwood district, in Nottinghamshire, England, two miles east of the town of Ollerton. Boughton is situated 3 miles north of Nottinghamshire.
Nottinghamshire
- Also known as: “County of Nottinghamshire” and “Notts”
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.1667° or 53° 10′ northLongitude
-1° or 1° westPopulation
1,160,000Elevation
207 feet (63 metres)Abbreviation
“NTT”Open location code
9C5X5282+M2GeoNames ID
2641169
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Satellite Map
Discover Nottinghamshire from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cornish to Swedish—“Nottinghamshire” goes by many names.
- Cornish: “Nottinghamshire”
- Dutch: “Nottinghamshire”
- Esperanto: “Nottinghamshire”
- Finnish: “Nottinghamshire”
- French: “Nottinghamshire”
- German: “Nottinghamshire”
- Ido: “Nottinghamshire”
- Italian: “Nottinghamshire”
- Luxembourgish: “Nottinghamshire”
- Norwegian: “Nottinghamshire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nottinghamshire”
- Polish: “Nottinghamshire”
- Portuguese: “Nottinghamshire”
- Romanian: “Nottinghamshire”
- Russian: “Ноттингемшир”
- Slovak: “Nottinghamshire”
- Spanish: “Nottinghamshire”
- Swedish: “Nottinghamshire”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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