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Nottingham from the east, c. 1695, painted by Jan Siberechts. Nottingham is situated on an area of low hills [42] along the lower valley of the River Trent, and is surrounded by the Sherwood Forest in the north, the Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire Coalfield in the west, and the Trent and Belvoir Vales in the east and south.
Loxley House is the administrative office of Nottingham City Council and an office base for the Department for Work and Pensions and Nottingham City Homes in the south of Nottingham city centre. It is situated on Station Street, opposite Nottingham railway station and adjacent to Trent House , the former Boots print works that is now the ...
Edwalton contains some of Nottingham's most expensive properties: Valley Road, Melton Road, Croft Road and Village Street include properties worth over a million pounds. Edwalton Hall, the largest, was once the residence of the Chaworth family and is now an exclusive complex of mews houses and apartments .
The Park is a private estate, managed by Nottingham Park Estate Ltd, a company governed by Act of Parliament. [13] Living on the estate incurs both council tax and a local charge ('Park Rates'). The park rates cover maintenance of roads, pavements, the gas light network, the trees and the public green spaces.
Broadmarsh is an historic area of Nottingham, England. The area was subjected to large scale slum clearance, creating large spaces used for regeneration.A shopping centre, car park, bus station and road complex created in the early 1970s cut-through the traditional thoroughfares from the city centre to the rail and canalside area.
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It stands upon the site of the house which the Plumptre family erected for themselves when they first came to Nottingham in the 13th century. [1] The first information of "The Flying Horse," is from 1400 when John de Plumtre founded Plumptre Hospital. The property forming the endowment included the oldest portion of The Flying Horse in The Poultry.
John Boot (1815–1860) opened a shop selling herbal remedies in Goosegate in the City of Nottingham in 1849. [1] Over the next 70 years his son, Jesse Boot, through a series of innovations; trading only in cash, the use of large-scale industrial production methodologies, the establishment of a major distribution and retailing network including the opening of over a thousand stores allowing ...