List of museums in Nottinghamshire
Table:
Name

Image

Town/City

Region

Type

Summary

Bassetlaw Museum

Retford
Bassetlaw
Local
website, local history, art, archaeology, decorative arts, agriculture, costume and textiles, industry, rural life, coal mining

Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre

Laxton
Newark and Sherwood
History
History of the Holocaust and other 20th-century genocides

British Horological Institute

Upton
Newark and Sherwood
Horology
Located at Upton Hall, collection of historic clocks, watches, tools and other horological artifacts, open on special occasions to non-members

Calverton Folk Museum

Calverton
Gedling
Local
Period furniture and clothing, fossils, framework knitting history, Victorian kitchen, living room and bedroom[1]

Creswell Crags

Creswell
Bassetlaw
Archaeology
Limestone gorge and caves with flint tools and other Stone Age artifacts

D.H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum

Eastwood
Broxtowe
Historic house
19th century working class house, birthplace of author D. H. Lawrence

Dukes Wood Oil Museum

Eakring
Newark and Sherwood
Industry
website, site and story of the UK’s first oilfield

Durban House Heritage Centre

Eastwood
Broxtowe
Multiple
Includes late 19th century social history exhibits and context of author D. H. Lawrence's life in town, also an art gallery

Flintham Museum

Flintham
Newark and Sherwood
History
website, 20th century period shop reflecting rural life

Framework Knitters Museum

Ruddington
Rushcliffe
Industry
website, complex of restored Victorian period frameshops, cottages and outbuildings that show the living and working conditions of framework knitters

Galleries of Justice Museum

Nottingham
Nottingham
Prison
Historic courthouse and gaol

Green's Windmill and Science Centre

Sneinton
Nottingham
Multiple
Restored and working 19th century tower windmill, hands-on science exhibits

Harley Gallery

Welbeck
Bassetlaw
Art
Located at Welbeck Abbey, features contemporary arts and crafts

Holme Pierrepont Hall

Holme Pierrepont
Rushcliffe
Historic house
Medieval hall and garden, open to the public on a limited basis

Lakeside Arts Centre

Nottingham
Nottingham
Art
website, performing and visual arts centre of the University of Nottingham

Mansfield Museum

Mansfield
Mansfield
Multiple
Art, local history, culture

Mr Straw's House

Worksop
Bassetlaw
Historic house
Operated by the National Trust, 1920s period family house

Museum of Nottingham Life at Brewhouse Yard

Nottingham
Nottingham
History
website, local social history, period room and shop settings, reconstructed Victorian schoolroom, wartime life

Museum of The Horse

Tuxford
Bassetlaw
History
website, walk through 2000 years of equestrian history

National Civil War Centre - Newark Museum

Newark-on-Trent
Newark and Sherwood
History
website, focuses solely on the British Civil War

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Retford ( pronounced rɛt-fʌd , RET-fud ) , also known as East Retford , is a market town in Nottinghamshire , England , 31 miles ( 50 km ) from Nottingham , and 23 miles ( 37 km ) west of Lincoln . The population at the 2011 census was 22,013 . The town is in the valley of the River Idle and the Chesterfield Canal passes through the centre . The village of Ordsall , west of the River Idle and the East Coast Main Line railway , and the former hamlet of Thrumpton are suburbs . Retford is administered by Bassetlaw District Council , which itself is now a non-constituent partner member of the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority . Retford is twinned with Pfungstadt , Germany .
Bassetlaw is the northernmost district of Nottinghamshire , England , with a population of 114,143 according to the mid-2014 estimate by the Office for National Statistics . The borough is predominantly rural , with two towns : Worksop , site of the borough council offices , and Retford . The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the boroughs of Worksop and East Retford and most of Worksop Rural District and most of East Retford Rural District . It is named after the historic Bassetlaw wapentake of Nottinghamshire . It borders the boroughs of Doncaster and Rotherham in South Yorkshire to the northwest . The district council is now a non-constituent partner member of the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority .
Beth Shalom ( lit . House of Peace ) , also named the National Holocaust Centre and Museum , is a Holocaust memorial centre near Laxton in Nottinghamshire in England . Opened in 1995 , it is England 's only dedicated Holocaust museum , though there is also a permanent exhibition at London 's Imperial War Museum and another in Huddersfield . The centre was founded by brothers James and Stephen Smith following a 1991 visit to Israel during which a trip to Yad Vashem changed the way they looked at history and the Holocaust . The museum seeks to educate primary school children about the Holocaust through its primary exhibit on children 's experiences , funded in part by a lottery grant of nearly £500,000 . Prince Harry was educated about the Holocaust at the Centre after he was criticised for wearing a Nazi armband as part of an Afrika Korps costume to a fancy dress party . On 21 July 2010 , almost twenty years after the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre was founded , James and Stephen Smith and their mother Marina were each awarded honorary degrees of Doctor of Letters ( DLitt ) by Nottingham Trent University .
Laxton is a small village in the civil parish of Laxton and Moorhouse in the English county of Nottinghamshire , situated about 25 miles northeast of Nottingham city centre . The population of the civil parish ( including Ompton and Ossington ) at the 2011 Census was 489 . Laxton is best known for having the last remaining working open field system in the United Kingdom . Its name is recorded first in the Domesday Book as Laxintone , and may come from Anglo-Saxon Leaxingatūn , meaning the ` farmstead or estate of the people of a man called Leaxa ' . It is possibly the namesake of the town of Lexington , Massachusetts , and thus ultimately of all the other towns named Lexington in the United States .
Newark and Sherwood is a local government district and is the largest district in Nottinghamshire , England . The district was formed on 1 April 1974 , by a merger of the municipal borough of Newark with Newark Rural District and Southwell Rural District . It was originally known just as Newark : the name was changed by the council effective 1 April 1995 . The district is predominantly rural , with some large forestry plantations , the ancient Sherwood Forest and the towns of Newark-on-Trent , Southwell and Ollerton .
The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , [ b ] was the World War II genocide of the European Jews . Between 1941 and 1945 , across German-occupied Europe , Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews , around two-thirds of Europe 's Jewish population . [ a ] [ c ] The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass shootings ; by a policy of extermination through work in concentration camps ; and in gas chambers and gas vans in German extermination camps , chiefly Auschwitz , Bełżec , Chełmno , Majdanek , Sobibór , and Treblinka in occupied Poland . Germany implemented the persecution in stages . Following Adolf Hitler 's appointment as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 , the regime built a network of concentration camps in Germany for political opponents and those deemed undesirable , starting with Dachau on 22 March 1933 . After the passing of the Enabling Act on 24 March , which gave Hitler plenary powers , the government began isolating Jews from civil society ; this included boycotting Jewish businesses in April 1933 and enacting the Nuremberg Laws in September 1935 . On 9-10 November 1938 , eight months after Germany annexed Austria , Jewish businesses and other buildings were ransacked , smashed or set on fire throughout Germany and Austria during what became known as Kristallnacht ( the Night of Broken Glass ) . After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 , triggering World War II , the regime set up ghettos to segregate Jews from the rest of the population . Eventually thousands of camps and other detention sites were established across German-occupied Europe . The segregation of Jews in ghettos culminated in the policy of extermination the Nazis called the Final Solution to the Jewish Question , discussed by senior Nazi officials at the Wannsee Conference in Berlin in January 1942 . As German forces captured territories in the East , all anti-Jewish measures were radicalized . Under the coordination of the SS , with directions from the highest leadership of the Nazi Party , killings were committed within Germany itself , throughout occupied Europe , and within territories controlled by Germany 's allies .
Genocide is intentional action to destroy a people ( usually defined as an ethnic , national , racial , or religious group ) in whole or in part . The hybrid word genocide is a combination of the Greek word γένος ( race , people ) and the Latin suffix -caedo ( act of killing ) . The term genocide was coined by Raphael Lemkin in his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe . The United Nations Genocide Convention , which was established in 1948 , defines genocide as acts committed with intent to destroy , in whole or in part , a national , ethnic , racial or religious group , as such including the killing of its members , causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group , deliberately imposing living conditions that seek to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part , preventing births , or forcibly transferring children out of the group to another group . The term has been coined and applied to the Holocaust , the Armenian Genocide and many other mass killings including the genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americas , the Greek genocide , the Assyrian genocide , the Serbian genocide , the Holodomor , the Indonesian genocide , the Guatemalan genocide , the 1971 Bangladesh genocide , the Cambodian genocide , and after 1980 the Bosnian genocide , the Anfal genocide , the Darfur genocide , the Rwandan genocide and the Rohingya genocide . Others are listed in Genocides in history and List of genocides by death toll . The Political Instability Task Force estimated that , between 1956 and 2016 , a total of 43 genocides took place , causing the death of about 50 million people . The UNHCR estimated that a further 50 million had been displaced by such episodes of violence up to 2008 .
The British Horological Institute ( also known as the BHI ) is the representative body of the horological industry in the United Kingdom . It was founded by a group of clockmakers in 1858 , and has its current premises at Upton Hall in Nottinghamshire , which includes a museum of clock history .
Upton is a small village in Nottinghamshire , England , 2 miles ( 3.2 km ) east of Southwell , 5 miles ( 8.0 km ) west of Newark and 3 miles ( 4.8 km ) south of Hockerton ; it lies on the A612 Nottingham-Newark road . In 1889 , the village was described as sitting on a bend in the main road , on the summit of a hill which commands a fine view of the Trent Valley . . The church , which is a prominent feature in the landscape , has a substantial Perpendicular tower crowned by eight pinnacles , and having in the centre a lofty master pinnacle which rises above its neighbours , and so adds materially to the effect . The village had a population of 425 at the 2011 census . The parish church of St Peter and St Paul is 13th century , built in the Perpendicular style . The tower of the church was also used as a dovecote . There is also a village hall and a public house ( The Cross Keys ) . It is also the home of the British Horological Institute based at Upton Hall . What once was the village shop is now a private house . Upton Mill was a wooden postmill built c. 1814 . Still in use in 1905 the body of the mill had gone by 1911 , the roundhouse being re-roofed and retained as a store .
Upton Hall is the headquarters of the British Horological Institute ( BHI ) in Upton , Newark and Sherwood , Nottinghamshire , England . It has been the headquarters since 1972 . It also houses the Museum of Timekeeping consisting of a substantial collection of clocks , watches and also a library . The Museum is open to the public during seasonal summer opening hours , for special events and for pre-booked Group tours .
Calverton is a village and civil parish , of some 3,300 acres ( 1,300 ha ) , in the Gedling district , about seven miles north-east of Nottingham , Nottinghamshire , England , and situated , like nearby Woodborough and Lambley , on one of the small tributaries of the Dover Beck . The 2011 census found 7,076 inhabitants in 2,987 households . About two miles to the north of the village is the site of the supposed deserted settlement of Salterford . The parish is bounded on the south-east by Woodborough , to the south-west by Arnold , Papplewick and Ravenshead , to the north by Blidworth , and to the north-east by Oxton and Epperstone . During most of its existence Calverton was a forest village , in that part of Sherwood known as Thorney Wood Chase , with a rural economy limited by a lack of grazing land , in which handicrafts ( like woodworking and the knitting of stockings ) , must in consequence have assumed a more than usual importance . The parliamentary enclosure of 1780 brought some agrarian progress to the village , but it was not until the opening of a colliery by the National Coal Board in 1952 , that the village began to assume its present identity , with new housing estates and marked population growth . The colliery closed in 1999 and while a small industrial estate provides some local employment , Calverton has taken on the character of a large commuter village . In May 1974 the village was officially twinned with Longué-Jumelles , in the Loire valley of France .
Gedling is a local government district with borough status in Nottinghamshire , England , whose council is based in Arnold , north-east of Nottingham . The population at the time of the 2011 census was 113,543 . It is part of the Nottingham Urban Area . It was formed on 1 April 1974 by merging the urban districts of Arnold and Carlton and part of the rural district of Basford . It is named after the village of Gedling . Other settlements include Burton Joyce , Calverton , Colwick and Ravenshead .
A stocking frame was a mechanical knitting machine used in the textiles industry . It was invented by William Lee of Calverton near Nottingham in 1589 . Its use , known traditionally as framework knitting , was the first major stage in the mechanisation of the textile industry , and played an important part in the early history of the Industrial Revolution . It was adapted to knit cotton and to do ribbing , and by 1800 had been adapted as a lace making machine .
Creswell Crags is an enclosed limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire , England , near the villages of Creswell and Whitwell . The cliffs in the ravine contain several caves that were occupied during the last ice age , between around 43,000 and 10,000 years ago . Its caves contain the northernmost cave art in Europe . The evidence of occupation found in the rich series of sediments that accumulated over many thousands of years is regarded as internationally unique in demonstrating how prehistoric people managed to live at the extreme northernmost limits of their territory during the Late Pleistocene period . The caves contain occupation layers with evidence of flint tools from the Mousterian , proto-Solutrean , Creswellian and Maglemosian cultures . They were seasonally occupied by nomadic groups of people during the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods . Evidence of Neolithic , Bronze Age , Roman and post-medieval activity has also been found there . There is evidence of Neanderthal occupation 50,000-60,000 years ago , a brief Gravettian occupation around 32,000 years ago and use of all the main caves during the Magdalenian around 14,000 years ago . The site is open to the public and has a visitor centre with a small museum of objects associated with the caves , including a stuffed cave hyena . As a result of its unique features , Creswell Crags has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) . It has also been put forward as a potential World Heritage Site . In 2006-07 , the B6042 road was re-routed from its path through the gorge , by approximately 150 metres ( 160 yd ) to the north , to minimise traffic impact on the site .
Creswell is a former mining village located in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire , England . At the 2011 Census population details were included in the civil parish of Elmton-with-Creswell . Today it is best known for Creswell Crags and its model village . In September 1950 Creswell Colliery was the scene of one of the worst post-nationalisation mining disasters . Elmton Common is an area of allotments for the township of Creswell . Local Government services are provided by Elmton-with-Creswell Parish Council , Bolsover District Council and Derbyshire County Council .
Flint is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz , categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone . Flint was widely used historically to make stone tools and start fires . It occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in sedimentary rocks , such as chalks and limestones . Inside the nodule , flint is usually dark grey , black , green , white or brown in colour , and often has a glassy or waxy appearance . A thin layer on the outside of the nodules is usually different in colour , typically white and rough in texture . The nodules can often be found along streams and beaches . Flint breaks and chips into sharp-edged pieces , making it useful for knife blades and other cutting tools . The use of flint to make stone tools dates back millions of years , and flint 's extreme durability has made it possible to accurately date its use over this time . Flint is one of the primary materials used to define the Stone Age . During the Stone Age , access to flint was so important for survival that people would travel or trade to obtain flint . Flint Ridge in Ohio was an important source of flint and Native Americans extracted the flint from hundreds of quarries along the ridge . This Ohio Flint was traded across the eastern United States and has been found as far west as the Rocky Mountains and south around the Gulf of Mexico .
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements with an edge , a point , or a percussion surface . The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years and ended between 8700 BCE and 2000 BCE with the advent of metalworking . [ citation needed ] Stone Age artifacts include tools used by modern humans and by their predecessor species in the genus Homo , and possibly by the earlier partly contemporaneous genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus . Bone tools were used during this period as well but are rarely preserved in the archaeological record . The Stone Age is further subdivided by the types of stone tools in use . The Stone Age is the first period in the three-age system of archaeology , which divides human technological prehistory into three periods :
The D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum is a writer 's home museum dedicated to the writer D. H. Lawrence situated in Eastwood , near Nottingham . It is the house in which he was born in 1885 , and one of the four houses the family occupied in Eastwood . Now a museum , visitors can visit the building via guided or self-guided tour .
Eastwood is a former coal mining town in the Broxtowe district of Nottinghamshire , England , 8 miles ( 13 km ) northwest of Nottingham and 10 miles ( 16 km ) northeast of Derby on the border between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire . Mentioned in Domesday Book , it expanded rapidly during the Industrial Revolution . The Midland Railway was formed here , and it is the birthplace of D. H. Lawrence . Eastwood is one of the few places where the distinctive dialect of East Midlands English is extensively spoken , in which the name is pronounced /ˈeɪswʊd/ .
Broxtowe is a local government district with borough status in Nottinghamshire , England , west of the City of Nottingham . The population of the district as taken at the 2011 Census was 109,487 . It is part of the Nottingham Urban Area . Broxtowe 's neighbour to the west is the borough of Erewash , which is in Derbyshire .
David Herbert Lawrence ( 11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930 ) was an English writer and poet . His collected works represent , among other things , an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation . Some of the issues Lawrence explores are sexuality , emotional health , vitality , spontaneity , and instinct . Lawrence 's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution , censorship , and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life , much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his savage pilgrimage . At the time of his death , his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents . E. M. Forster , in an obituary notice , challenged this widely held view , describing him as the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation . Later , the literary critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness .
Eakring is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire , England . Its population at the 2011 Census was 419 . There was sizeable oil production there in the mid-20th century .
The D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum is a writer 's home museum dedicated to the writer D. H. Lawrence situated in Eastwood , near Nottingham . It is the house in which he was born in 1885 , and one of the four houses the family occupied in Eastwood . Now a museum , visitors can visit the building via guided or self-guided tour .
Flintham is an English village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire , seven miles ( 11.3 km ) from Newark-on-Trent , opposite RAF Syerston on the A46 . Its population was 597 at the 2011 Census . The Ham class minesweeper HMS Flintham was named after the village .
Ruddington is an English village ( twinned with Grenay , France ) 5 miles ( 8 km ) south of Nottingham in the Borough of Rushcliffe . It had a population of 6,441 at the 2001 Census , increasing to 7,216 at the 2011 Census . An independent community , residents have previously conducted high-profile campaigns in an attempt to retain the rural identity as a village and prevent it being subsumed into the adjoining suburban districts of Clifton and West Bridgford . It maintains this through a variety of local amenities such as several shops , schools , public houses , community centre , village hall and churches within the village centre .
Rushcliffe is a local government district with borough status in Nottinghamshire , England . The population of the Local Authority at the 2011 Census was 111,129 . Its council , Rushcliffe Borough Council ( 0115 981 9911 ) , is based in West Bridgford . It was formed on 1 April 1974 by merging the West Bridgford Urban District , the Bingham Rural District and part of Basford Rural District . The district was named after the old Rushcliffe wapentake . Rushcliffe means cliff where brushwood grows , from Old English hris brushwood and clif cliff .
The National Justice Museum ( formerly the Galleries of Justice Museum and historically known as the Shire Hall and County Gaol ) , is an independent museum on High Pavement in the Lace Market area of Nottingham , England . The museum is housed in what was once a Victorian courtroom , gaol and police station , and is therefore a historic site where an individual could be arrested , sentenced and executed . The courtrooms date back to the 14th century and the gaol to at least 1449 . The building is a Grade II* listed building and the museum is a registered charity .
Nottingham ( /ˈnɒtɪŋəm/ ( listen ) NOT-ing-əm ) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire , England . Part of the East Midlands region , it is 128 miles ( 206 km ) north of London and 45 miles ( 72 km ) northeast of Birmingham . To the west lies Derby , separated by the M1 motorway . Nottingham has links to the legend of Robin Hood and to the lace-making , bicycle ( notably Raleigh bikes ) , and tobacco industries . It was granted its city charter in 1897 as part of Queen Victoria 's Diamond Jubilee celebrations . Nottingham is a tourist destination ; in 2018 , the city received the second highest amount of overnight visitors in the Midlands and the highest amount in the East Midlands . In 2017 , Nottingham had an estimated population of 329,200 . The population of the city proper , compared to its regional counterparts , has been attributed to its historical and tightly-drawn city boundaries . The wider conurbation , which includes many of the city 's suburbs , has a population of 768,638 . It is the largest urban area in the East Midlands and the second-largest in the Midlands . Its Functional Urban Area , also the largest in the East Midlands , has a population of 919,484 . The population of the Nottingham/Derby metropolitan area is estimated to be 1,610,000 .
Greens Windmill is a restored and working 19th century tower windmill in Sneinton , Nottingham . Built in the early 1800s for the milling of wheat into flour , it remained in use until the 1860s . It was renovated in the 1980s and is now part of a science centre , which together have become a local tourist attraction .
Sneinton ( pronounced Snenton ) is a village and suburb of Nottingham , England . The area is bounded by Nottingham City Centre to the west , Bakersfield to the north , Colwick to the east , and the River Trent to the south . Sneinton now lies within the unitary authority of Nottingham , having been part of Nottinghamshire until 1877 . Sneinton has existed as a village since at least 1086 , but remained relatively unchanged up until the industrial era , when the population dramatically expanded . Further social change in the post-war period left Sneinton with a multicultural character . Sneinton residents of note include William Booth , founder of The Salvation Army , and mathematician George Green , who worked Green 's Mill at the top of Belvoir Hill .
The Harley Gallery and Foundation is an educational charity situated on the ducal estate of Welbeck Abbey in North Nottinghamshire .
Welbeck is a village in Nottinghamshire , England , slightly to the south-west of Worksop . The village population is included in the civil parish of Holbeck . Welbeck became a coal-mining centre in 1912 and has a famous stately home , Welbeck Abbey , home of the Dukes of Portland , and which was founded in the twelfth century as a monastery . Among the famous people from Welbeck is former cricketer , Ted Alletson , who held a batting world record for 50 years . Archduke Franz Ferdinand accepted an invitation from the Duke of Portland to stay at Welbeck Abbey and arrived with his wife , Sophie , by train at Worksop on 22 November 1913 . This was almost a year before his assassination , which triggered off the First World War . The Archduke narrowly avoided being killed in a freak hunting accident during his stay .
Welbeck Abbey in the Dukeries in North Nottinghamshire was the site of a monastery belonging to the Premonstratensian order in England and after the Dissolution of the Monasteries , a country house residence of the Dukes of Portland . It is one of four contiguous ducal estates in North Nottinghamshire and the house is a grade I listed building .
Holme Pierrepont Hall is a medieval hall in Holme Pierrepont near Nottingham . It is a Grade I listed building .
Holme Pierrepont is a hamlet and civil parish located 5 miles ( 8 km ) south of the city of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire , England . It is in the Gamston ward of the Rushcliffe local authority in the East Midlands region . The population of the civil parish ( including Bassingfield ) as at the 2011 Census was 528 . The word Holme comes from the Old English and Old Norse words for a small island or low-lying land by a river . Pierrepont is French for Stone Bridge , and is the surname of an Anglo-Norman family that once held the manor .
The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham , United Kingdom . It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881 , and was granted a royal charter in 1948 . Nottingham 's main campus ( University Park ) with Jubilee Campus and teaching hospital ( Queen 's Medical Centre ) are located within the City of Nottingham , with a number of smaller campuses and sites elsewhere in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire . Outside the UK , the university has campuses in Semenyih , Malaysia and Ningbo , China . Nottingham is organised into five constituent faculties , within which there are more than 50 schools , departments , institutes and research centres . Nottingham has about 45,500 students and 7,000 staff , and had an income of £656.5 million in 2017/18 , of which £120.1 million was from research grants and contracts . In 2010 , Nottingham was ranked 13th in the world in terms of the number of alumni listed among CEOs of the Fortune Global 500 , together with the Tohoku ( Japan ) and Stanford University ( U.S. ) It is also ranked 2nd ( joint with Oxford ) in the 2012 Summer Olympics table of British medal winners . In the 2011 and 2014 GreenMetric World University Rankings , University Park was ranked as the world 's most sustainable campus . The institution 's alumni have been awarded a variety of prestigious accolades , including 3 Nobel Prizes , a Fields Medal , a Turner Prize , and a Gabor Medal and Prize.Nottingham was ranked No . 11 overall in the UK by the 2019 QS Graduate Employability Rankings . The QS Graduate Employability Rankings measure how successful students are at securing a top job after graduation from university . In addition , the 2017 High Fliers survey stated Nottingham was the seventh most targeted university by the UK 's top employers between 2016-17 .
Mansfield Museum is a local authority museum run by the council in Mansfield , Nottinghamshire . The brainchild of William Edward Baily , a wealthy local collector and natural historian , the museum opened in 1904 after Baily offered his collection and a building , the 'Tin Tabernacle ' , to Mansfield .
Mansfield is a market town in Nottinghamshire , England , the main town in the District of Mansfield and Mansfield Urban Area . It lies in the Maun Valley surrounded by hills , 12 miles ( 19 km ) north of Nottingham in a largely urban district , most of whose 106,556 population live in the town itself ( including Mansfield Woodhouse ) , with Market Warsop a secondary centre . It lies next to the urban area of Sutton-in-Ashfield . Mansfield is the only major sub-regional centre in the county , covering an area of 30 square miles ( 78 sq km ) . It is the county 's only local authority area directly to elect its Mayor . The district has been influenced by an industrial past of coal mining and textiles , which thrived into the 1990s . Today 's Mansfield has 20.2 per cent ( 12,890 ) of its working-age population seeking key out-of-work benefits ( based on a 63,800 total working age population , NOMIS ) . The population has fallen over the last century , despite some industrial diversification .
Mansfield is a local government district in Nottinghamshire , England .
Mr Straw 's House is a National Trust property in Worksop , Nottinghamshire , United Kingdom . The Edwardian semi-detached house and its contents have remained largely unchanged since the 1920s . It opened to the public in 1993 .
Worksop ( /ˈwɜːrksɒp/ WURK-sop ) is the largest town in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire , England . Worksop lies on the River Ryton , and is located at the northern edge of Sherwood Forest . Worksop is located 19 miles ( 31 km ) east-south-east of Sheffield , with a population of 41,820.It lies close to Nottinghamshires borders with South Yorkshire , and Derbyshire . Worksop has become a commuter town as a result of its geographic location and ease of access to major motorways and rail links . Worksop is known as the Gateway to The Dukeries , because of the now four obsolete ducal principal sites of which were closely located next to each other , south of the town . These four ducal locations were ; Clumber House , Thoresby Hall , Welbeck Abbey and Worksop Manor . Other houses such as Rufford Abbey and Hodsock Priory are also just a few miles away Worksop is twinned with the German town Garbsen .
The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty , commonly known as the National Trust , is an independent charity and membership organisation for environmental and heritage conservation in England , Wales and Northern Ireland . The trust describes itself as a charity that works to preserve and protect historic places and spaces - for ever , for everyone . The trust was founded in 1895 and given statutory powers , starting with the National Trust Act 1907 . Historically , the Trust acquired land by gift and sometimes by public subscription and appeal , but after World War II the loss of English country houses resulted in many such properties being acquired either by gift from the former owners , or through the National Land Fund , later the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the National Lottery . Country Houses and Estates still make up a significant part of its holdings , but it is also known for its protection of wild landscapes such as in the Lake District and Peak District , historic urban properties , and nature reserves such as Wicken Fen . In Scotland , there is a separate and independent National Trust for Scotland . The National Trust has a unique special power to prevent its inalienable land being sold off , although this can be over-ridden by Parliamentary procedure . The National Trust has been the beneficiary of many large donations and bequests . It owns over 500 heritage properties , which include many historic houses and gardens , industrial monuments , and social history sites . Most of these are open to the public , usually for a charge . Others are leased to tenants on terms that manage to preserve their character whilst providing for more limited public access . The Trust is one of the largest private landowners in the United Kingdom , owning over 248,000 hectares ( 610,000 acres ; 2,480 km2 ; 960 sq mi ) of land .
Tuxford is a village and a civil parish on the southern edge of the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire , England . It was historically a market town . At the 2001 census , it had a population of 2,516 , increasing to 2,649 at the 2011 census .
Newark-on-Trent or Newark ( /ˈnjuːərk/ ) is a market town and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of the county of Nottinghamshire , in the East Midlands of England . It stands on the River Trent , the A1 - on the route of the ancient Great North Road - and the East Coast Main Line railway . The origins of the town are possibly Roman , as it lies on an important Roman road , the Fosse Way . The town grew around Newark Castle , now ruined , and a large market place , now lined with historic buildings . It was a centre for the wool and cloth trades . In the English Civil War , it was besieged by Parliamentary forces and relieved by Royalist forces under Prince Rupert .
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms , [ b ] sometimes known as the British Civil Wars , [ c ] [ d ] formed an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in the kingdoms of England , Scotland and Ireland between 1639 and 1651 . The English Civil War proper has become the best-known of these conflicts ; it included the abolition of the monarchy and the execution of the kingdoms ' monarch , Charles I , by the English Parliament in 1649 . The history of these wars is often extended to include the uprisings and conflicts that continued through the 1650s until the English Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 , and sometimes to include Venner 's uprising the following year . The wars were the outcome of broadly set tensions over religious and civil issues . Religious disputes centred on whether religion was to be dictated by the monarch or by choice , the conscience of the individual , with many people feeling that they ought to have freedom of religion ( freedom of conscience ) . The related civil question was settling the extent to which the king 's rule was to be constrained by Parliament - in particular the right to raise taxes and armed forces without consent of the Parliament . The wars also had elements of national conflict , as Ireland and Scotland rebelled against England 's primacy within the Three Kingdoms . The broad and durable victory of the English Parliament - ultimately ( under Oliver Cromwell and the Army ) overcoming the king , the Irish and the Scots , and then outlasting the Cromwellian Protectorate itself - helped establish the future of Great Britain and Ireland as a constitutional monarchy with political power centred on the Parliament in London . These wars included the Bishops ' Wars of 1639 and 1640 ; the Irish Rebellion of 1641 ; Confederate Ireland , 1642-1649 ; the Scottish Civil War of 1644-1645 ; and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1649 ( collectively the Eleven Years War or Irish Confederate Wars ) ; and the First , Second and Third English Civil Wars of 1642-1646 , 1648-1649 and 1650-1651 .