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The NG postcode area, also known as the Nottingham postcode area, [2] is a group of 29 postcode districts in the East Midlands of England, within seven post towns.These cover southern and central Nottinghamshire (including Nottingham, Mansfield, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Newark-on-Trent and Southwell), parts of south-west Lincolnshire (including Grantham and Sleaford) and small parts of Derbyshire ...
The single or pair of letters chosen for postcode areas are generally intended as a mnemonic for the places served. [1] Postcode areas, post towns and postcode districts do not follow political or local authority administrative boundaries and usually serve much larger areas than the place names with which they are associated.
Postcode areas shown with former postal counties. This is a list of postcode districts in the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies. A group of postcode districts with the same alphabetical prefix is called a postcode area. All, or part, of one or more postcode districts are grouped into post towns. [1]
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.
Clifton is a suburb and historic manor in the city of Nottingham, in Nottinghamshire, England.As of the 2021 census, it had a population of 22,936. [1]Clifton has two council wards in the City of Nottingham (Clifton West and Clifton East as of 2018) [2] with a total population taken at the 2011 census (prior wards of Clifton North and Clifton South) of 26,835.
Woodthorpe is part of the Borough of Gedling in Nottinghamshire, England, next to the Nottingham city boundary and the areas of Mapperley, Daybrook, Sherwood and Arnold. References [ edit ]
Boundary changes in April 1952 adjusted Nottingham's southern boundary in this area to follow the centre of the River Trent, transferring the County Hall site and other areas on the south bank of the Trent (including the nearby City Ground stadium of Nottingham Forest F.C.) to the neighbouring urban district of West Bridgford. [7]
The village is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, [4] since when the De-Colwick, [5] Musters [6] and Byron [7] families have all owned the village. The etymology of the place-name is from Old English wic "specialised industrial farm" with an uncertain first element, possibly col "coal", [citation needed] although there have never been coal mines in the area.