NOTTINGHAM FOREST 



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NOTTING HILL 



the Revolution, but in 1690 was 

 one of the council chosen to assist 

 Queen Mary during the king's 

 absence in Ireland. At George's 

 accession Nottingham was made 

 president of the council, but he 

 lost favour in 1716. He died 

 Jan. 1, 1730. 



Nottingham Forest. Football 

 club playing the Association game. 

 It originated about 1865 in Not- 

 tingham, England, being named 

 from the Forest, the open space 

 where its earliest games were played . 

 It secured capable players, and in 

 1879 was in the semi-final for the 

 Association Cup. At that time it 

 was an amateur organization, but 

 it soon became mainly a profes- 

 sional one. A new ground was 

 acquired, and a company formed 

 to work the club. In 1898 the 

 Forest won the Association Cup. 

 See Football. 



Nottinghamshire. County of 

 England. Wholly inland, its area 

 is 844 sq. m. It is in the main a 



_ _ level region, much 



of it being the 

 valley of the 

 Trent, but there 

 are wolds in the 

 S. and some hills 

 in the W. The 

 chief river is the 

 Trent ; others are 

 its tributaries, the 

 Idle and the 

 Erewash, which separates the 

 county from Derbyshire. 



The county may be divided 

 roughly into a coal-mining and 

 industrial area in the S. and S.W., 

 and an agricultural one in the 

 N.E. and S.E. Barley and oats are 

 grown ; sheep and cattle are reared. 

 A large quantity of coal is produced ; 

 lace and hosiery are made ; and there 

 are engineering works of various 

 kinds. It is served by the Mid., 

 L. & N.W., G.C., and G.N. Rlys., 

 and by several canals. In the 

 county are the remains of Sher- 

 wood Forest, including the dis- 

 trict known as the Dukeries (q.v.). 

 Other places of interest are Cress- 

 well Crags, where traces of 

 primitive man have been found, 

 and the fine houses of Welbeck, 

 Thoresby, Clumber, Newstead, 

 and Wollaton. Nottingham is the 

 county town ; other boroughs are 

 Mansfield, Newark, and Retford. 

 Five members are returned to 

 Parliament. Nottinghamshire is 

 mainly in the diocese of Southwell. 

 It has long been famous for its 

 cricketers, and is a hunting centre. 

 Before the Norman Conquest, 

 Nottinghamshire was part of 

 Mercia. It passed under the control 

 of the Danes, and there are traces 

 of Danish settlements. In the 16th 

 century hosiery making was intro- 



Nottinghamshire 

 arms 



Nottinghamshire. Map of the industrial and agricultural county of the 

 English Midlands 



duced, while coal was mined at an 

 earlier date. There are remains of 

 monasteries at Newstead, Thurgar- 

 ton, and elsewhere. Pop. 641,134. 

 LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS. The 

 most prominent literary figure 

 associated with the county is 

 Lord Byron, who passed much of 

 his early life at Southwell and New- 

 stead, and is buried at Hucknall 

 Torkard. Other poets of the 

 county are Henry Kirke White 

 and Philip James Bailey, both of 

 whom were born at Nottingham. 

 Thomas Cranmer was born at 

 Aslockton, and Erasmus Darwin 

 at Elston Hall. In the literature of 

 legend the county has Gotham 

 (q.v.) and Sherwood Forest, 

 background to the ballads and 

 other literature concerning Robin 

 Hood, and also to the ballad of The 

 King and the Miller of Mansfield. 



Bibliography. Annals of N., T- 

 Bailey, 1853 ; History of N., C- 

 Brown, 1891 ; Bygone N., W. 

 Stevenson, 1893; Victoria History of 

 the Counties of England, Notting- 

 hamshire, ed. W. Page, 1906; Memor- 

 ials of Old N., E. L. Guilford, 1912. 



Nottinghamshire and Derby- 

 shire Regiment, THE. Official 

 name of the British regiment more 

 usually known as The Sherwood 

 Foresters (q.v. ). 



Netting Hill. London district. 

 Part of the bor. of Kensington, it 

 is N. of Holland Park, with Bays- 

 water E. and Shepherds Bush, W. 

 At Netting Hill Gate was an old 

 turnpike, removed in 1860 ; near 

 the Met. Rly. station is the Coronet 

 Theatre, built 1898, later a cinema. 

 On the rising ground of Ladbroke 

 Grove, known in 1820 as Netting 

 Hill Farm, is S. John's Church, 

 built 1842. The farm was sue- 



