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 |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Nottingham and Mansfield.
Nottingham
Mansfield
Newark-on-Trent
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Newark-on-Trent is a market town in Nottinghamshire, on the edge of Sherwood Forest, with a population in 2021 of 30,000. It’s best known as the place where King Charles I surrendered during the English Civil War.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Worksop and Hucknall.
Worksop
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Worksop is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England. Located close to Nottinghamshire's borders with South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, it is on the River Ryton and not far from the northern edge of Sherwood Forest.
Hucknall
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Hucknall is a market town in the Ashfield district of Nottinghamshire, England, 7 miles north of Nottingham, 7 miles southeast of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, 9 miles from Mansfield and 10 miles south of Sutton-in-Ashfield.
Beeston
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Beeston is a town in the Borough of Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, England, it is 3 miles south-west of Nottingham. To its north-east is the University of Nottingham's main campus, University Park.
Arnold
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Arnold is a market town in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands of England. It is an important suburb of the city of Nottingham.
Edwinstowe
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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.
Nottinghamshire
- Type: County with 1,140,000 residents
- Description: ceremonial county of England
- Also known as: “Ceremonial County Nottinghamshire” and “Notts”
- Neighbors: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire
- Category: ceremonial county of England
- Location: East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude of center
53.1667° or 53° 10′ northLongitude of center
-1° or 1° westPopulation
1,140,000Elevation
174 feet (53 metres)OpenStreetMap ID
node 302323934GeoNames ID
11609044Wikidata ID
Q23092
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Nottinghamshire” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nottinghamshire”
- Arabic: “نوتنجهامشير”
- Arabic: “نوتنغهامشاير”
- Arabic: “نوتنغهامشير”
- Armenian: “Նոթթինգեմշիր”
- Asturian: “Nottinghamshire”
- Azerbaijani: “Nottinqemşir”
- Balinese: “Nottinghamshire”
- Basque: “Nottinghamshire”
- Bavarian: “Nottinghamshire”
- Belarusian: “Нотынггэмшыр”
- Belarusian: “Нотынгемшыр”
- Bengali: “নটিংহ্যামশায়ারে”
- Bosnian: “Nottinghamshire”
- Breton: “Nottinghamshire”
- Bulgarian: “Нотингамшър”
- Catalan: “Nottinghamshire”
- Cebuano: “Nottinghamshire”
- Chinese: “Nottinghamshire”
- Chinese: “诺丁汉郡”
- Chinese: “諾丁漢郡”
- Chinese: “諾丁罕郡”
- Chinese: “諾定咸郡”
- Cornish: “Nottinghamshire”
- Czech: “Nottinghamshire”
- Danish: “Nottinghamshire”
- Dutch: “Nottinghamshire”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نوتنجهامشير”
- Esperanto: “Nottinghamshire”
- Estonian: “Nottinghamshire”
- Finnish: “Nottinghamshire”
- French: “Nottinghamshire”
- Galician: “Nottinghamshire”
- Georgian: “ნოტინგემშირი”
- German: “Nottinghamshire”
- Greek: “Νότιγχαμσαϊρ”
- Greek: “Νοτς”
- Gujarati: “નોટિંગહામશાયર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Nottinghamshire”
- Hebrew: “נוטינגהאמשייר”
- Hindi: “नॉटिंघमशायर”
- Hungarian: “Nottinghamshire”
- Icelandic: “Nottinghamshire”
- Ido: “Nottinghamshire”
- Indonesian: “Nottinghamshire”
- Interlingua: “Nottinghamshire”
- Irish: “Nottinghamshire”
- Italian: “Nottinghamshire”
- Japanese: “ノッツ”
- Japanese: “ノッティンガムシャー・シニア”
- Japanese: “ノッティンガムシャー”
- Japanese: “ノッティンガムシャー州”
- Kannada: “ನಾಟಿಂಗ್ಹ್ಯಾಮ್ಶೈರ್”
- Korean: “노팅엄셔주”
- Kurdish: “Nottinghamshire”
- Ladin: “Nottinghamshire”
- Latin: “Nottinghamiensis comitatus”
- Latvian: “Notingemšīra”
- Lithuanian: “Notingamšyras”
- Luxembourgish: “Nottinghamshire”
- Macedonian: “Нотингемшир”
- Manx: “Nottinghamshire”
- Marathi: “नॉटिंगहॅमशायर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nottinghamshire”
- Northern Frisian: “Nottinghamshire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nottinghamshire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nottinghamshire”
- Norwegian: “Nottinghamshire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nottinghamshire”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Snotingahāmscīr”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Snotingahāmsċīr”
- Ossetian: “Ноттингемшир”
- Panjabi: “ਨੌਟਿੰਘਮਸ਼ਰ”
- Panjabi: “ਨੌਟਿੰਘਮਸ਼ਾਇਰ”
- Persian: “ناتینگهامشایر”
- Persian: “ناتینگهامشر”
- Polish: “Nottinghamshire”
- Portuguese: “Nottinghamshire”
- Romanian: “Nottinghamshire”
- Russian: “Ноттингемшир”
- Scots: “Nottinghamshire”
- Serbian: “Нотингамшир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nottinghamshire”
- Slovak: “Nottinghamshire”
- Slovenian: “Nottinghamshire”
- Spanish: “Nottinghamshire”
- Swedish: “Nottinghamshire”
- Tajik: “Ноттингемшир”
- Tamil: “நோட்டிங்ஹம்ஷிர்”
- Telugu: “నాటింగ్ హమ్ షైర్”
- Thai: “นอตทิงแฮมเชอร์”
- Turkish: “Nottinghamshire”
- Turkish: “Törensel Nottinghamshire Kontluğu”
- Ukrainian: “Ноттінгемшир”
- Urdu: “ناٹنگھمشائر”
- Venetian: “contea de Nottingham”
- Vietnamese: “Nottinghamshire”
- Volapük: “Nottinghamshire”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nottinghamshire”
- Welsh: “Swydd Nottingham”
- Western Frisian: “Nottinghamshire”
- Western Panjabi: “نوٹنگمشائر”
- Wu Chinese: “诺丁汉郡”
- Yiddish: “נאטינגהאמשיר”
- Yue Chinese: “諾定咸郡”
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