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Nottinghamshire is an English county in the East Midlands. It sits on extensive coal measures, up to 900 metres (3,000 feet) thick and occurring largely in the north of the county. There is an oil field near Eakring. These are overlaid by sandstones and limestones in the west and clay in the east. The centre and south west of the county, around Sherwood Forest, features undulating hills with ancient oak woodland. It is famous for its involvement with the legend of Robin Hood.
Nottinghamshire lies on the Roman Fosse Way, there are many Roman settlements in the county, Mansfield is an example. The county was settled by Angles around the 5th century, and became part of the Kingdom, and later Earldom, of Mercia. Part of Nottinghamshire was settled by the Saxons, settlements include Oxton, Newark, and Tuxford.
Nottingham's original name is unfortunate - before the Danes renamed it, the small village was called Snotta, or Snot, from Old English meaning ‘a place abounding with caverns or holes dug underground' and certainly prehistoric people left such dwellings at the bottom of a steep rock under this town. The countys name first occurs in 1016 and it was known as Snotinghamscir. In1568 the county was administratively united with Derbyshire, under a single Sheriff.
Until 1610, Nottinghamshire was divided into eight wapentakes or hundreds. Sometime between 1610 and 1719 they were reduced to six – Newark, Bassetlaw, Thurgarton, Rushcliffe, Broxtowe and Bingham, some of these names still being used for the modern districts. Oswaldbeck was absorbed in Bassetlaw, of which it forms the North Clay division, and Lythe in Thurgarton.
Nottinghamshire is famous for its involvement with the legend of Robin Hood. This is also the reason for the amount of tourists who visit places like Sherwood Forest, City of Nottingham and the surrounding villages in Sherwood Forest. It is also famous as the start of the civil war. On August 12th, 1642, King Charles I issued a proclamation to all subjects residing on the north side of the Trent, or within twenty miles southward thereof, to assemble at Nottingham on the 22nd of August, "where we intend to erect our Standard Royal, in our just and necessary defence, and whence we resolve to advance forward for the suppression of the said Rebellion, and the protection of our good subjects among them, from the burthen of the slavery and insolence under which they cannot hut groan until they be relieved by us." Those that came armed the King promised to at once take into his pay, and at the mine time he asked for loans of money, which he would repay us soon as God enabled him.
On the wall of the General Hospital, on Standard Hill, at Nottingham, there is a tablet which reads: "On a mound about 60 yards to the rear of this tablet Charles I raised his Standard, August 25th, 1642." He had set it up on a tower in the Castle three days earlier. Sir William Penniman expressed the opinion that it would be a good deed to burn down the Town below, because its people had not come forth to serve their King." Sir Edmund Verney, the Knight-Marshal and Standard-bearer of England, when the Standard was set up, stepped forward and passionately exclaimed that "they who would take that Standard from him must first wrest his soul from his body.’’ Then the drums and trumpets sounded, and the troops shouted : "God save the King!" The King commenced the War in Nottingham, apparently because of its central position, and his belief that the people would rally to his support, but they did not.
Nottinghamshire lies on the Roman Fosse Way, there are many Roman settlements in the county, Mansfield is an example. The county was settled by Angles around the 5th century, and became part of the Kingdom, and later Earldom, of Mercia. Part of Nottinghamshire was settled by the Saxons, settlements include Oxton, Newark, and Tuxford.
Nottingham's original name is unfortunate - before the Danes renamed it, the small village was called Snotta, or Snot, from Old English meaning ‘a place abounding with caverns or holes dug underground' and certainly prehistoric people left such dwellings at the bottom of a steep rock under this town. The countys name first occurs in 1016 and it was known as Snotinghamscir. In1568 the county was administratively united with Derbyshire, under a single Sheriff.
Until 1610, Nottinghamshire was divided into eight wapentakes or hundreds. Sometime between 1610 and 1719 they were reduced to six – Newark, Bassetlaw, Thurgarton, Rushcliffe, Broxtowe and Bingham, some of these names still being used for the modern districts. Oswaldbeck was absorbed in Bassetlaw, of which it forms the North Clay division, and Lythe in Thurgarton.
Nottinghamshire is famous for its involvement with the legend of Robin Hood. This is also the reason for the amount of tourists who visit places like Sherwood Forest, City of Nottingham and the surrounding villages in Sherwood Forest. It is also famous as the start of the civil war. On August 12th, 1642, King Charles I issued a proclamation to all subjects residing on the north side of the Trent, or within twenty miles southward thereof, to assemble at Nottingham on the 22nd of August, "where we intend to erect our Standard Royal, in our just and necessary defence, and whence we resolve to advance forward for the suppression of the said Rebellion, and the protection of our good subjects among them, from the burthen of the slavery and insolence under which they cannot hut groan until they be relieved by us." Those that came armed the King promised to at once take into his pay, and at the mine time he asked for loans of money, which he would repay us soon as God enabled him.
On the wall of the General Hospital, on Standard Hill, at Nottingham, there is a tablet which reads: "On a mound about 60 yards to the rear of this tablet Charles I raised his Standard, August 25th, 1642." He had set it up on a tower in the Castle three days earlier. Sir William Penniman expressed the opinion that it would be a good deed to burn down the Town below, because its people had not come forth to serve their King." Sir Edmund Verney, the Knight-Marshal and Standard-bearer of England, when the Standard was set up, stepped forward and passionately exclaimed that "they who would take that Standard from him must first wrest his soul from his body.’’ Then the drums and trumpets sounded, and the troops shouted : "God save the King!" The King commenced the War in Nottingham, apparently because of its central position, and his belief that the people would rally to his support, but they did not.