Place:Nottinghamshire, England

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NameNottinghamshire
Alt namesNottinghamsource: Family History Library Catalog
Nottssource: Wikipedia
NTTsource: Curious Fox: UK Counties and Shires [online] (2002). accessed 16 Dec 2002
TypeHistoric county, Administrative county, Modern county
Coordinates53.017°N 1°W
Located inEngland
Contained Places
Borough
Nottingham
Borough (municipal)
Mansfield ( 500 - )
Newark on Trent
Chapelry
Askham
Awsworth
Balderton
Bawtry
Besthorpe
Boughton
Bradmore
Bramcote
Broxtowe (chapelry)
Bulcote
Carburton
Carlton upon Trent
Coddington
Cossall
Cottam
Darlton
Edwalton
Flawborough
Gamston (near East Retford)
Girton
Halam
Haughton
Holme
Kimberley
Kingston on Soar
Ollerton
Ragnall
Scarrington
Scrooby
Skegby
Stokeham
Syerston
Thoroton
Thrumpton
West Drayton
Civil parish
Alverton
Annesley
Arnold
Askham
Aslockton
Auckley ( - 1895 )
Averham
Awsworth
Babworth
Balderton
Barnby Moor
Barnby in the Willows
Barton in Fabis
Basford
Bathley
Bawtry
Beckingham
Beeston
Besthorpe
Bestwood Park
Bevercoates
Bilborough
Bilsthorpe
Bingham
Bleasby
Blidworth
Blyth
Bole
Bothamsall
Boughton
Bradmore
Bramcote
Brewhouse Yard
Brinsley
Broadholme
Broughton Sulney
Bulcote
Bunny
Burton Joyce
Calverton
Car Colston
Carburton
Carlton in Lindrick
Carlton upon Trent
Caunton
Caythorpe
Chilwell
Clarborough
Clayworth
Clifton with Glapton
Clipston (near Nottingham)
Clipstone (near Mansfield)
Coddington
Collingham ( 1970 - )
Colston Bassett
Colwick
Cossall
Costock
Cotgrave
Cotham
Cottam
Cromwell
Cropwell Bishop
Cropwell Butler
Cuckney
Darlton
Dunham
Eakring
East Bridgford
East Drayton
East Leake
East Markham
East Stoke
Eastwood
Eaton
Edingley
Edwalton
Edwinstowe
Egmanton
Elksley
Elston
Elton
Epperstone
Everton
Farndon
Farnsfield
Felley
Finningley ( - 1974 )
Fiskerton cum Morton ( 1884 - )
Flawborough
Fledborough
Flintham
Fulwood
Gamston (West Bridgford)
Gamston (near East Retford)
Gedling ( - 1935 )
Girton
Gonalstone
Gotham
Granby
Grassthorpe
Greasley
Gringley on the Hill
Grove
Gunthorpe
Halam
Halloughton
Harby
Harworth
Haughton
Hawksworth
Hawton
Hayton
Haywood Oaks
Headon cum Upton
Hickling
Hockerton
Hodsock
Holbeck
Holme Pierrepont
Holme
Hoveringham
Kelham
Kersall
Keyworth
Kilvington
Kimberley
Kingston on Soar
Kinoulton
Kirkby in Ashfield
Kirklington
Kirton
Kneesal
Kneeton
Lambley
Laneham
Langar
Langford
Langwith
Laxton
Linby
Lindhurst
Littleborough
Lodge on the Wolds
Lound
Lowdham
Mansfield ( 500 - )
Maplebeck
Marnham
Mattersey
Meering
Misson
Misterton
Newark on Trent
Newstead
Normanton on Soar
Normanton on Trent
Normanton on the Wolds
North Clifton
North Collingham ( - 1970 )
North Leverton with Habblesthorpe
North Muskham
North Wheatley
Norton Cuckney
Norton
Norwell Woodhouse
Norwell
Nottingham St. Mary ( - 1897 )
Nottingham St. Nicholas ( - 1897 )
Nottingham St. Peter ( - 1897 )
Nuthall
Ollerton
Ompton
Orston
Ossington
Owthorpe
Oxton
Papplewick
Park Leys
Perlethorpe cum Budby ( 1899 - )
Plumtree
Radcliffe on Trent
Ragnall
Rampton
Ranskill
Ratcliffe on Soar
Rempstone
Rolleston
Ruddington
Rufford
Saundby
Saxondale
Scaftworth
Scarrington
Scrooby
Selston
Shelford
Shelton
Sibthorpe
Skegby
Sokeholme
South Clifton
South Collingham ( - 1970 )
South Leverton
South Muskham
South Scarle
South Wheatley
South Wilford ( 1894 - 1935 )
Southwell
Spalford
Stanford on Soar
Stanton on the Wolds
Stapleford
Staunton
Staythorpe
Stoke Bardolph
Stokeham
Strelley
Sturton
Styrrup with Oldcotes ( 1866 - )
Sutton Bonington
Sutton on Trent
Sutton
Syerston
Teversall
Thorney
Thoroton
Thorpe Bochart
Thorpe
Thrumpton
Thurgarton
Tollerton
Torworth
Toton
Treswell
Trowell
Tuxford
Tythby
Upton
Walesby
Walkeringham
Warsop
Wellow
West Burton
West Drayton
West Leake
West Markham
West Newark ( 1894 - 1935 )
West Stockwith
Weston
Whatton
Widmerpool
Wiggesley
Wilford
Willoughby on the Wolds
Winkburn
Winthorpe
Wiverton Hall
Wollaton
Woodborough
Woodhouse Hall
Wyeston
Wysall
District municipality
Ashfield District ( 1974 - )
Bassetlaw District ( 1974 - )
Broxtowe District ( 1974 - )
Gedling District ( 1974 - )
Mansfield District ( 1974 - )
Newark and Sherwood District ( 1974 - )
Nottingham District ( 1974 - )
Rushcliffe District ( 1974 - )
Extra parochial area
Brewhouse Yard
Felley
Fulwood
Haywood Oaks
Lindhurst
Lodge on the Wolds
Meering
Newstead
Park Leys
Rufford
Wiverton Hall
Woodhouse Hall
Former parish
Attenborough ( - 1866 )
Hamlet
Alverton
Broadholme
Chilwell
Felley
Harby
Spalford
Wiggesley
Hundred
Bassetlaw Wapentake
Bingham Wapentake
Broxtowe Wapentake
Newark Wapentake
Rushcliffe Wapentake
Thurgarton Wapentake
Inhabited place
Bircotes
Carlton by Nottingham
Clifton
East Retford
Elkesley
Hucknall
Huthwaite
Jacksdale
Long Eaton
Mansfield Woodhouse
Manton
Netherfield
Norton Disney
Nottingham
Ollerton and Broughton
Pentrich
Rainworth
Ravenshead
Sutton in Ashfield
West Bridgford
Worksop
Parish (ancient)
Annesley
Arnold
Averham
Babworth
Balderton
Barnby in the Willows
Barton in Fabis
Basford
Beckingham
Beeston
Bevercoates
Bilborough
Bilsthorpe
Bingham
Bleasby
Blidworth
Blyth
Bole
Bothamsall
Broughton Sulney
Bunny
Burton Joyce
Calverton
Car Colston
Carlton in Lindrick
Caunton
Clarborough
Clayworth
Clifton with Glapton
Colston Bassett
Colwick
Costock
Cotgrave
Cotham
Cromwell
Cropwell Bishop
Dunham
Eakring
East Bridgford
East Drayton
East Leake
East Markham
East Stoke
Eastwood
Eaton
Edingley
Edwinstowe
Egmanton
Elksley
Elston
Elton
Epperstone
Everton
Farndon
Farnsfield
Finningley ( - 1974 )
Fledborough
Flintham
Gamston (near East Retford)
Gedling ( - 1935 )
Gonalstone
Gotham
Granby
Greasley
Gringley on the Hill
Grove
Halloughton
Harworth
Hawksworth
Hawton
Hayton
Headon cum Upton
Hickling
Hockerton
Holme Pierrepont
Hoveringham
Kelham
Keyworth
Kilvington
Kinoulton
Kirkby in Ashfield
Kirklington
Kirton
Kneesal
Kneeton
Lambley
Laneham
Langar
Langford
Laxton
Linby
Littleborough
Lowdham
Mansfield ( 500 - )
Maplebeck
Marnham
Mattersey
Misson
Misterton
Newark on Trent
Normanton on Soar
Normanton on Trent
North Clifton
North Collingham ( - 1970 )
North Muskham
North Wheatley
Norton Cuckney
Norwell
Nottingham St Nicholas
Nottingham St. Mary ( - 1897 )
Nottingham St. Nicholas ( - 1897 )
Nottingham St. Peter ( - 1897 )
Nuthall
Orston
Ossington
Owthorpe
Oxton
Papplewick
Plumtree
Radcliffe on Trent
Rampton
Ratcliffe on Soar
Rempstone
Rolleston
Ruddington
Saundby
Scrooby
Selston
Shelford
Shelton
Sibthorpe
South Collingham ( - 1970 )
South Leverton
South Muskham
South Scarle
South Wheatley
Southwell
Stanford on Soar
Stanton on the Wolds
Stapleford
Staunton
Strelley
Sturton
Sutton on Trent
Teversall
Thorney
Thorpe Bochart
Thorpe
Thurgarton
Tollerton
Treswell
Trowell
Tuxford
Tythby
Upton
Walesby
Walkeringham
Wellow
West Burton
West Leake
West Markham
Weston
Whatton
Widmerpool
Wilford
Willoughby on the Wolds
Winkburn
Winthorpe
Wollaton
Woodborough
Wysall
Parochial area
Brinsley
Registration district
Basford Registration District
Bassetlaw Registration District ( 2005 - 2012 )
Bingham Registration District ( 1837 - 1974 )
East Retford Registration District ( 1837 - 2005 )
Mansfield Registration District ( 1837 - 2012 )
Newark Registration District ( 1837 - 2012 )
Nottingham Registration District ( 1837 - )
Nottinghamshire Registration District ( 2012 - )
Radford Registration District ( 1837 - 1880 )
Rushcliffe Registration District ( 1974 - 2012 )
Southwell Registration District ( 1837 - 1974 )
West Bridgford Registration District ( 1976 - 1988 )
Worksop Registration District ( 1837 - 2005 )
Rural district
Basford Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Bingham Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Blyth and Cuckney Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Civil parishes of Kingston upon Soar and Ratcliffe upon Soar Rural ( 1894 - 1927 )
East Retford Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Leake Rural ( 1894 - 1935 )
Misterton Rural ( 1894 - 1935 )
Newark Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Nottingham Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Skegby Rural ( 1894 - 1935 )
Southwell Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Stapleford Rural ( 1894 - 1935 )
Worksop Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Suburb
Attenborough ( - 1866 )
Basford
Edwalton
Hyson Green
Township
Aslockton
Auckley ( - 1895 )
Barnby Moor
Bathley
Blyth
Caythorpe
Clipston (near Nottingham)
Clipstone (near Mansfield)
Cropwell Butler
Cuckney
East Stoke
Finningley ( - 1974 )
Gamston (West Bridgford)
Grassthorpe
Gunthorpe
Holbeck
Kersall
Kneesal
Langwith
Lound
Normanton on the Wolds
Norton
Norwell Woodhouse
Ompton
Ranskill
Saxondale
Scaftworth
Sokeholme
South Clifton
Staythorpe
Stoke Bardolph
Styrrup with Oldcotes ( 1866 - )
Sutton Bonington
Sutton
Torworth
Toton
West Stockwith
Wyeston
Unitary authority
Nottingham District ( 1974 - )
Nottingham
Unknown
Bulwell
Holgrave
Hucknall-under-Huthwaite
Lenton
Little Carlton
North Leverton
Ordsall
Portland Row
Radford
Screveton
Sherwood Forest
Snenton
Stanton Hill
Underwood
West Retford
Urban district
Arnold
Beeston and Stapleford ( 1935 - 1974 )
Beeston
Carlton by Nottingham
East Retford
Eastwood
Hucknall
Kirkby in Ashfield
Mansfield Woodhouse
Sutton in Ashfield
Warsop
West Bridgford
Worksop
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Nottinghamshire (abbreviated "Notts") is a county in the "East Midlands" of England, which now borders South Yorkshire to the northwest, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditional county town is Nottingham, though the county council is based in West Bridgford in the borough of Rushcliffe, at a site facing Nottingham over the River Trent.

The districts of Nottinghamshire (formed in 1974) 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, remaining part of Nottinghamshire for ceremonial purposes.

In 2011 the county was estimated to have a population of 785,800. Over half of the population of the county live in the Greater Nottingham conurbation (which stretches south into Derbyshire). The conurbation has a population of about 650,000, though less than half live within the city boundaries.

History

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Nottinghamshire lies on the Roman Fosse Way, and there are Roman settlements in the county; for example at Mansfield, and forts such as at the Broxtowe Estate in Bilborough. The county was settled by Angles around the 5th century, and became part of the Kingdom, and later Earldom, of Mercia. However, there is evidence of Saxon settlement at the Broxtowe Estate, Oxton, near Nottingham, and Tuxford, east of Sherwood Forest. The name first occurs in 1016, but until 1568, the county was administratively united with Derbyshire, under a single Sheriff. In Norman times, the county developed malting and woollen industries. During the industrial revolution, the county held much needed minerals such as coal and iron ore, and had constructed some of the first experimental waggonways in the world; an example of this is the Wollaton wagonway of 1603–1616, which transported minerals from bell pitt mining areas at Strelley and Bilborough, this led to canals and railways being constructed in the county, and the lace and cotton industries grew. In the 18th and 19th centuries, mechanised deeper collieries opened, and mining became an important economic sector, though these declined after the 1984–85 miners' strike.

Until 1610, Nottinghamshire was divided into eight Wapentakes. 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 numbers of tourists who visit places like Sherwood Forest, City of Nottingham, and the surrounding villages in Sherwood Forest. To reinforce the Robin Hood connection, the University of Nottingham in 2010 has begun the Nottingham Caves Survey, with the goal "to increase the tourist potential of these sites". The project "will use a 3D laser scanner to produce a three dimensional record of more than 450 sandstone caves around Nottingham".

Nottinghamshire was mapped first by Christopher Saxton in 1576; the first fully surveyed map of the county was by John Chapman, who produced Chapman's Map of Nottinghamshire in 1774. The map was the earliest printed map at a sufficiently useful scale (one statute mile to one inch) to provide basic information on village layout, and the existence of landscape features such as roads, milestones, tollbars, parkland, and mills.

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