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This is a list of places of interest in the British county of Nottinghamshire. See List of places in Nottinghamshire for a list of settlements in Nottinghamshire.
Name | Image | Location | Type | Description | Notes |
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Annesley Old Church | Annesley | Church | Medieval church built in 1356 by the Annesley family. | Grade I listed building [1] Scheduled Ancient Monument | |
Name | Image | Location | Type | Description | Notes |
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Attenborough Nature Reserve | Attenborough | Nature reserve | Site of Special Scientific Interest | ||
D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum | Museum | Eastwood | Museum dedicated to the life of D. H. Lawrence. | ||
Durban House Heritage Centre | Museum | Eastwood | Museum dedicated to the history of Eastwood. | ||
Name | Image | Location | Type | Description | Notes |
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Newstead Abbey | Newstead | Priory | Augustinian priory founded in 1170, best known as the home of Lord Byron. | Grade I listed building | |
Papplewick Pumping Station | Papplewick | Pumping station | Victorian pumping station built in 1881 to provide water for the city of Nottingham. | Grade II* listed building Scheduled Ancient Monument | |
Name | Image | Location | Type | Description | Notes |
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Colwick Cutting | Sneinton | Woodland | Site of Special Scientific Interest | ||
Galleries of Justice Museum | Nottingham | Museum | |||
Green's Mill | Sneinton | Windmill | Grade II listed building | ||
Nottingham Castle | Nottingham | Castle | Grade I listed building | ||
Nottingham Contemporary | Nottingham | Museum | |||
Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre | Ruddington | Museum | Museum dedicated to transport, housed in the northern terminus of the Great Central Railway. | ||
Wollaton Hall | Nottingham | Country house | Elizabethan country house built in 1580, now a museum dedicated to natural history. | Grade I listed building | |
Name | Image | Location | Type | Description | Notes |
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Holme Pierrepont Hall | Holme Pierrepont | Historic House | Grade I listed building | ||
Nottinghamshire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. The county borders South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The largest settlement is the city of Nottingham (323,632), which is also the county town.
Hucknall, formerly Hucknall Torkard, is a market town in the Ashfield district of Nottinghamshire, England. It lies 7 miles (11 km) north of Nottingham, 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, 9 miles (14 km) from Mansfield and 10 miles (16 km)south of Sutton-in-Ashfield. It is the second-largest town in the Ashfield district after Sutton-in-Ashfield.
Sutton-in-Ashfield is a market town in Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of 48,527 in 2019. It is the largest town in the district of Ashfield, four miles west of Mansfield, 2 miles (3 km) from the Derbyshire border and 12 miles (19 km) north of Nottingham.
Blidworth is a village and civil parish approximately five miles east of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 4,457, this dropped to 4,295 in the 2021 census. Its history can be traced back to the 10th century, although many of the current houses were built in the first half of the 20th century to provide housing for workers at Blidworth Colliery (1926–1989). These are mainly in estates north of Dale Lane, known as New Blidworth. The area around Main Street, west of Beck Lane and including the church, is Old Blidworth, containing some of the oldest buildings. Blidworth Bottoms is a hamlet about 0.5 km south of Old Blidworth, while Haywood Oaks is the portion of the village south of Dale Lane and the south eastern rural area of the parish surrounding Haywood Oaks Lane.
Kirkby-in-Ashfield is a market town in the Ashfield District of Nottinghamshire, England. With a population of 25,265, it is a part of the wider Mansfield Urban Area. The Head Offices of Ashfield District Council are located on Urban Road in the town centre.
Ashfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It is in the English county of Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, to the north west of the city of Nottingham in the Erewash Valley along the border with neighbouring county Derbyshire.
Ashfield cum Thorpe is a civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, between the town of Framlingham to the East and the village of Debenham to the West.
Charles Eamer Kempe was a British Victorian era designer and manufacturer of stained glass. His studios produced over 4,000 windows and also designs for altars and altar frontals, furniture and furnishings, lychgates and memorials that helped to define a later nineteenth-century Anglican style. The list of English cathedrals containing examples of his work includes: Chester, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield, Wells, Winchester and York. Kempe's networks of patrons and influence stretched from the Royal Family and the Church of England hierarchy to the literary and artistic beau monde.
Hidden Valleys is a name, coined in 2004, used to describe an area of interesting historical and scenic value between the city of Nottingham and the town of Mansfield in the English ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire. Promotional literature and tourist information for the Hidden Valleys were created to encourage tourism in an area that had been blighted by industrial decline. Partners in the project were: Ashfield District Council; Gedling Borough Council; the East Midlands Development Agency; Nottinghamshire County Council; and the Coalfields Regeneration Trust. It was intended by the partners that the name would help the Ashfield area compete with the Peak District and Sherwood Forest.
Skegby is a village in the Ashfield district of Nottinghamshire, England. It lies on the B6014 road, two miles west of Mansfield and one mile north of Sutton-in-Ashfield, close to Stanton Hill. Skegby sits on both sides of a deep valley near the source of the River Meden. It was a civil parish until 1935, when it was absorbed into Sutton-in-Ashfield.
Richard Charles Sutton was an architect based in Nottingham. He was born 1834 and died on 18 October 1915.
All Saints' Church, Annesley is a parish church in the Church of England in Annesley, Nottinghamshire.
The Church of St Mary Magdalene, Sutton-in-Ashfield is a parish church in the Church of England in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
St. Helen's Church, Selston is a parish church in the Church of England in Selston, Nottinghamshire.
The Church of St Peter and St Paul, Hucknall is a parish church in the Church of England in the Westville suburb of Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Charles Hodgson Fowler was a prolific English ecclesiastical architect who specialised in building and, especially, restoring churches.
James Fowler, known as 'Fowler of Louth', is best known as a Victorian English church architect and associated with the restoration and renovation of churches. However, he was also the architect of a wide variety of other buildings. A listing of his work compiled in 1991 traced over 210 buildings that he designed or restored. He is known to be the architect for 24 new churches and his work also included 40 vicarages or rectories, 13 schools, four almshouses, a Savings Bank, a convalescent home and hospital as well as country houses and estate housing. Most of Fowler’s work was in Lincolnshire and particularly around Louth, but he also worked in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, London, Sussex and Devon.
Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of the Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area and the second largest settlement in Nottinghamshire. It gained the Royal Charter of a market town in 1227. The town lies in the Maun Valley, 12 miles (19 km) north of Nottingham. It had a population of 110,500 at the 2021 census, according to the Office for National Statistics. Mansfield is the one local authority in Nottinghamshire with a publicly elected mayor.
Louis Ambler FSA FRIBA was an English architect.