Welcome
to NottsViews, a pictorial and video guide of places to visit in Nottinghamshire.Nottinghamshire is a county in England, famous for Sherwood Forest and is the legendary home of Robin Hood.
At
the time of the Doomsday Book in
1086, Sherwood Forest covered as
much as one quarter of
Nottinghamshire.At the heart of the forest is the Major Oak, thought to be 800 to a 1000 years old and famously known as Robin Hood's Tree.
For many years Sherwood was a
Royal hunting forest, the hunting
lodge at King's Clipstone
originally known as the King's
Houses was
visited by various Kings from
Henry II to Richard II. King John (1166-1216) was one of these Kings who visited the lodge which is known locally as King John's Palace.
Every
year Nottinghamshire celebrates
the life of Robin Hood at the
Robin Hood Festival held in
Sherwood Forest at Edwinstowe.The festival features, musicians, storytellers, magicians, archery, stalls and a medieval reenactment group.
There
are many rivers in Nottinghamshire, the most well known of these is the River
Trent, at 185 miles it is the third longest river in the United Kingdom.
The source begins at Biddulph Moor a village in Staffordshire and passes
through Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire joining
the River Ouse at Trent Falls to form the Humber Estuary.