Resort

About the resort

Nottingham is located in the county of Nottinghamshire in the central part of Great Britain. The first associations that its name usually evokes are the legend of Robin Hood, a robber who hunted with his pack in Sherwood Forest. These stories have a historical rationale: when the King of England, Richard the Lionheart, returned from the crusade, his opponent, the Sheriff of Nottingham, settled in Nottingham. Richard captured the castle, which was also reflected in folk tales. But the history of the city began long before these events.Nottingham was founded by the Saxons back in the 7th century and it got its name from t ...

Nottingham is located in the county of Nottinghamshire in the central part of Great Britain. The first associations that its name usually evokes are the legend of Robin Hood, a robber who hunted with his pack in Sherwood Forest. These stories have a historical rationale: when the King of England, Richard the Lionheart, returned from the crusade, his opponent, the Sheriff of Nottingham, settled in Nottingham. Richard captured the castle, which was also reflected in folk tales.

But the history of the city began long before these events.Nottingham was founded by the Saxons back in the 7th century and it got its name from the name of the Saxon ruler of Snod - Snottingham, which meant "settlement belonging to Snod";later, "c" at the beginning of the word stopped being pronounced.In the 11th centuryon the opposite side of the Trent River, the English king William the Conqueror built a castle-fortification on a hill.The population of both banks began to trade with each other in the "neutral territory", at the foot of the hills - a place that now exists under the old name of Market Square.

In the form of Nottingham, buildings of different eras are combined - from medieval castles and houses to baroque palaces, from slums of workers of the 18th and 19th centuries to modern shopping centers.

WEATHER

The climate in Nottingham is moderate, changeable, summers are both hot and cold.The maximum temperature in the summer months varies from +20 to +25 ° C.It is coldest in January and February.

HOW TO GET

The nearest East Midlands airport is located in Leicestershire, between the cities of Leicester, Derby and Nottingham.Buses from the airport to Nottingham depart every 20 minutes, cost £6.50 and take 45 minutes.The prices on the page are indicated for April 2019

You can also fly from London (Stansted Airport), and from there there are Central Trains to Nottingham.

Trains arrive at the station, located in the southern part of the city, from Birmingham (journey time 1.5 hours), Manchester (2 hours) and London (2 hours), Liverpool, London, the cities of the West Midlands and the north of Britain.

TRANSPORT

The main types of public transport in Nottingham are tram and bus.A ticket for one trip on a tram will cost 2.20 GBP, on a bus - from 2 GBP.You can plan a route and find out details about the numerous tolls in Nottingham on the official website
One of the types of tolls in Nottingham is called Robin Hood.

Bikes can be rented for £1.50 per day with a Citycard at one of the city's many bike parks.

ENTERTAINMENT AND SIGHTS

Sight number 1 is, of course, Nottingham Castle, now a museum with an exposition that tells about the history of the city.Right outside the gates of the castle is a monument to the legendary fighter for justice, Robin Hood.Sherwood Forest, near the village of Edwinstow, where Robin and his companions are believed to have lived, is now a parkland.It is notable for its long-lived oak, whose age is estimated at 800-1000 years.

In addition, it is worth looking at:

Wollaton Hall, a Renaissance palace surrounded by a picturesque park, now houses the Natural History Museum;
the Gothic Church of St. Barnabas (1841-1844), located at the intersection of Derby Road and North Circus Street;
the largest Nottingham medieval church of the Holy Virgin Mary;
Galleries of Justice - a museum of crimes and punishments;
"City of Caves" - a branch of the Museum of Crimes, tells about the conditions in which people worked in underground labyrinths;
the town hall (Nottingham Council House), built relatively recently, in 1927-1929, in the neo-baroque style.The 61-meter-high dome crowns the building and majestically rises above the Old Market Square, the largest square in the country.

Nottingham is home to several hundred restaurants, reflecting the region's ethnic diversity.Mansfield Road is home to inexpensive restaurants, while Mintons Tearoom in Grizzly, a suburb of Nottingham, offers home-cooked meals.

In the vicinity

An hour's drive from Nottingham (about 52 km north) is the Creswell Crags limestone canyon, in the rocky cliffs of which several caves were discovered, in which people lived during the last ice age. Here in 2003 rock paintings and bas-reliefs made by ancient people were discovered - but before that it was believed that there was no rock painting on the territory of Great Britain. The images at Creswell Crags are thus considered the northernmost examples of cave art in Europe. You can get to Creswell Crags by taking the next train from Nottingham to Worksop on the Robin Hood Line, then the No. 77 bus.

Many tourists want to visit Newstead Abbey (Newstead Abbey) 18 km from Nottingham (half an hour by car) - it is known as the ancestral estate of the poet George Gordon Byron.Byron's tomb is in the church town of Hucknell (about 10 km north of Nottingham).