Nottinghamshire

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Nottinghamshire

Geography
Status	Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county
Origin	Historic
Region	East Midlands
Area - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 27th 2,160 km² Ranked 24th 2,085 km ²
Admin HQ	West Bridgford
ISO 3166-2	GB-NTT
ONS code	37
NUTS 3	UKF15/16
Demographics
Population - Total (2005 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked 17th 1,041,300 482 / km² Ranked 10th 762,600
Ethnicity	94.1% White 2.5% S. Asian 1.5% Afro-Carib.
Politics
Nottinghamshire County Council http://www.nottscc.gov.uk/
Executive	Labour
Members of Parliament	Graham Allen Kenneth Clarke Vernon Coaker John Heppell Geoff Hoon John Mann Alan Meale Patrick Mercer Nick Palmer Alan Simpson Paddy Tipping
Districts
Rushcliffe Broxtowe Ashfield Gedling Newark and Sherwood Mansfield Bassetlaw Nottingham (Unitary)

Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is a county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. The county town is traditionally Nottingham, at 52°57′17″N, 1°09′29″W, though the council is now based in West Bridgford (at a site facing Nottingham over the River Trent).

The districts of Nottinghamshire are Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Broxtowe, Gedling, Mansfield, Newark and Sherwood, and Rushcliffe. The City of Nottingham was administratively part of Nottinghamshire between 1974 and 1998 but is now a unitary authority although it remains part of the county.

National and County cricket player Harold Larwood.

1 Culture
2 Settlements and communications
3 Places of interest
4 Other websites

[change] Culture

Nottinghamshire contains the ancestral home of the poet Lord Byron, Newstead Abbey, which he sold in 1818. It is now owned by Nottingham City Council and open to the public.

[change] Settlements and communications

The council house and a tram in Nottingham market square.

The traditional county town, and the largest settlement in the historic and ceremonial county boundaries, is Nottingham. The City is now administratively independent, but suburbs including Arnold, Carlton, West Bridgford, Beeston and Stapleford are still within the administrative county and West Bridgford is now home of the county council.