Click on the Castle name below the map to see a picture and some text about the Castle.
Nottinghamshire is Robin Hood Country. For many centuries almost the whole of the north of the county (plus parts of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire) was covered by Sherwood Forest, only a few fragments of which now remain. Forever more Nottinghamshire will be associated with Robin of Loxley (Loxley is in fact in Yorkshire) and the locals are not slow to take advantage of this!
The mighty river Trent divides the county from Lincolnshire as far as Newark and then crosses the county to bissect Nottingham itself before heading off through Derbyshire to its source in far off Staffordshire. Much of Nottinghamshire is rural, rolling countryside, with a few towns along the Trent Valley from Newark to Bingham to Nottingham in the south and a scattering of other towns such as Mansfield, Southwell, Worksop and Retford elsewhere.
Because most of the land was under trees, there are relatively few Castles in Nottinghamshire and only two have anything much remaining of them; Nottingham and Newark.
Back to the
Castles of
the East Midlands
© Text copyright - Raving Loony
Productions, Andrew J. Müller and
Roy Barton
© Photos and Artwork - Andrew J. Müller and Roy Barton
© Web Design and Layout - Andrew J. Müller
2024
