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Nottingham

Situated on the Nottingham Canal & River Trent, Nottinghams name derives from the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Snotingham (the village of the Snot's people). It was occupied by the Danes in the 9th century and became their most important centre. The Normans also recognised the strategic importance of Nottingham and built a castle here..

Paul Smith CBE, the internationally acclaimed fashion designer, has strong links with the City, at 15 he was working in a Lace Market warehouse, later learning pattern-cutting at night school, he opened his first shop in Nottingham in 1970.

Notts County Cricket Club play at Trent Bridge and has been the home of this famous club since 1838 when the Club's captain, William Clarke, put a fence around a field at the back of his pub. In 1886, the Club built what was then the biggest pavilion in England, The first Test Match - against Australia was played at the ground in 1899.

Notts County Football Club is universally recognised as the "Oldest League Club in the World", formed in 1862. They settled at their present ground, Meadow Lane, in 1910 and their first match was against local rivals Nottingham Forest.

DH Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, he went to the Nottingham High School and later to the Citys University College. The landscape of Nottinghamshire features in much of his work.

Annesley House

When Mr. Musters is not angling for Dee salmon in Aberdeenshire, or engaged with rod and line upon the banks of some swirling Norwegian river, he will most probably be at his charming seat nestled amongst the trees of Annesley Park, for Wiverton sees but little of him, and Colwick less. Fifty years ago William Howitt, whose rural sketches are as familiar to some as those of Washington Irving and scarcely less interesting, visited Annesley Hall, and found it forsaken, neglected, and ghostly, by reason of the deep desolateness which possessed its grey walls, silent courtyard, and its unkempt gardens.

O’er all there hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted.

"This was once the abode of a prosperous old family," says the writer, "but a blight and a sorrow have fallen here." A change has taken place at Annesley Hall since this observation was made. It is now the abode of a "prosperous old family ;" of one of the largest landowners in the county ; a genuine sportsman, and a true gentleman, who now, having given up at a tolerably early age all active participation in the national sport, still takes a lively interest in everything concerning it. The desolation has long since been dispelled by the going to and fro of friends and dependents, the happy voices of children, who are rapidly growing up into manhood and womanhood, and by the sunshine of their home life. But the memory of one sad incident will cling to Annesley so long as a single stone of that old hall stands, It was here that Lord Byron, always morbidly sensitive, but ere yet he had acquired that spirit of deep and settled melancholy, that love of self-accusation, which pervades much of his splendid poetry, bade farewell to Mary Chaworth. The spot where that his last sad interview took place is still pointed out, and the spirit of Byron continues to haunt the seclusion of Annesley