NOTTINGH A M S II I R E. 2G1 
—Clumber-park and Nottinghain-caftle, belonging to 
tlie duke of Newcaltle, lord-lieutenant of the county.— 
Coition Bafiet, the feat of Henry Martin, efq, feven miles 
dillant.—Clifton-grove, feat of fir Gervas Clifton, bart. 
three miles.—Holme Pierrepoint, feat of earl Manvers. 
.—Nuttal-temple, lord Vernon.—Owthorp, four miles, 
and Eaft Stoke, five miles; feats of fir G. S. Bromley, bart. 
-—Staunton-hali, the Rev. George Staunton.—Wilford- 
houfe, J. S. Wright, efq. two miles.—Tollerton-hall, 
Barry Barry, efq. three miles.—Thrumpton, S. W. Em- 
merton, efq.—Watnall, C. Rolleftone, efq. fix miles.— 
Bramcote-houfe, John Longden, efq. five miles.— Carl¬ 
ton, fir T. W. White, bart. and R. Ramfden, efq. three 
miles.—Gedling, W. E. Elliot, efq. four miles.—Ratcliffe, 
John Topott, efq. fix miles; Ratcliffe-lodge, Thomas 
Boulton, efq.—Radford, Mr. Elliot, one mile.—Staple- 
ford, Adm. Sir J. B. Warren, fix miles.—Langar, ba- 
ronefs Howe, fix miles.—Attenborough, five miles; Ad- 
borelton, two ; Barford, two; Beefton,four; Bridgeford, 
two; Bafingfield, four; Burton, five; Lambley, five; 
Sheniton, one; Kniveton and Papplewick, each feven 
miles from Nottingham. 
The works confulted in the compilation of this article 
are—Wilkes’s Britifh Diredory, vol. iv. Ency. Brit. 
Oldfield’s Reprefentative Hiftory, vol. iv. Deering’s Not- 
tinghamia Vetus et Nova, 1751. Beauties of England, 
vol. xii. England’s Gazetteer. Antiquarian and Topo¬ 
graphical Cabinet. Gent. Mag. 1818. 
NOT'TINGHAM, a town of the ftate of Maryland : 
five miles north-eaft of Baltimore. 
NOT'TINGHAM, a town of New Hampfhire : twelve 
males north of Exeter, and twenty-four north-weft of 
Portfmouth. 
NOT'TINGHAM, a town of New Jerfey, on the eaft 
bank of the Delaware, between Boxdenton and Trenton. 
NOT'TINGHAM (Eaft and Weft), two townfhips in 
Chefter county, Pennsylvania; the former having 889, 
and the latter 454, inhabitants. 
NOT'TINGHAM (Weft), a town of New Hampfhire, 
on the Merrimack : forty-five miles north-north-weft of 
Bofton. 
NOTTINGHAM I'SLAND, an Bland in Hudfon’s Bay. 
Lat.63. 30. N. Ion. 78. 30. W. 
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, one of the central counties 
of England, is bounded on the weft by Derbyfhire, on 
the north by Yorklhire, on the eaft by Lincolnfhire, and 
on the fouth by Leicefterfliire. Its figure approaches to 
the elliptical; its tranfverfe diameter, extending from 
Alkley or Fenninglhy in the north, to Stanford-upon- 
Soar, on the Leicefterfliire border, being a length of fifty 
miles; whilft its conjugate or (liorteft diameter, from 
Teverfliall, on the Derbyfhire border, to Collingham, 
which joins to Lincolnfhire, may be eftimated at twenty- 
fix or twenty-feven miles; and its circumference is com¬ 
puted to exceed 140 miles, and to contain a fuperficial 
area of 480,000 acres. According to the parliamentary 
returns of 1811, the houfes in this fibre amounted to 
32,462, and the inhabitants to 162,900 in number ; whereas 
In 1801, the houfes were only reckoned at 26,153, and the 
population at 140,350 perfons : in 1798, the number of 
inhabitants was 115,598. 
Towards the weft, where lies the foreft of Sherwood, 
the foil is Tandy; and that part of the county is called 
by the inhabitants The Sand. The fouth and eaft parts, 
watered by the Trent and its thirty \trente~\ rivers and ri¬ 
vulets, are clayey ; and thence thofe diftrifts are called 
The Clay. In thisdiftrift there are two divifions, ufually 
called “ the north and fouth days.” The firft of thefe, 
having a confiderable mixture of fand in its compofition, 
is more eafily fufceptible of agricultural labour than cold 
day-lands in general. In the more northern portions, it 
is agreeably diverfified with hill and dale; whilft its bold 
promontories, riling abruptly from the dead level of 
Miffon-Car, and their continuation in Lincolnfhire, ap¬ 
pear to have been at fome remote period the boundaries 
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to an ocean which mull once have flowed over what is' 
now a fcene of rich cultivation : this feems ftill more evi¬ 
dent, if the hills are viewed from below, when they have 
all the femblance of i(lands riling from the bofom of the 
deep; for their northern afpeft prefents a feries of abrupt 
cliffs, but on the other fide they fink gradually into the 
general line of the country. The fouth clay-diftrift is 
lefs extenfive than the north : it is, however, by flu- the 
moft valuable divifion of the county, as it includes a 
great part of the vale of Belvoir, which offers a fcene of 
cultivation not furpaiTed by any other in the kingdom. 
The wolds, fkirting the vale, .partake of the nature of 
its foil, but, from their lofty and expofed fituation, are 
deftitute of its fertility, though certainly well adapted for 
plantations. The lime-llone and coal lands form a third 
diftrift : thefe are fituated on the we (tern verge of the 
county, and have, in fome places, a furface of vegetable 
mould, but chiefly a cold blue or yellow clay. 
In point of climate, it may be obferved, that Notting- 
hamfhire is confidered by all writers as much drier than 
moft of the neighbouring counties; and this opinion has 
been confirmed by accurate and repeated experiments. 
The faff is explained by Mr. Lowe, in his General View, 
upon the principle, that the clouds from the weftern 
ocean break on the hills of Derbyfhire and Yorkfhire, 
and difcharge themfelves before they reach the compa¬ 
ratively level diftridt of Nottinghamfhire; while thofe 
from the German Ocean, being powerfully attracted by 
the fame mountains, pafs over the county too quickly 
to depofitmuch of their moillure. This general drynefs, 
as may be fuppofed, is favourable to the temperature of 
the air; which, except in the marfliy grounds and in 
the wolds, is almoft equally warm as the more fouthern 
counties. 
The kinds of grain ufually cultivated in the county of 
Nottingham, are the common ones of wheat, rye, barley, 
oats, beans, and peafe ; the rotation of crops, and the 
amount of their produce, differing according to the qua¬ 
lity of the grounds upon which they are railed. The 
wheat commonly fown is the red Lammas, and the white 
chaffed or Kentifh fort, which, in common fields, yield 
from two to three quarters, and, in inclofures, from two 
and a half to four quarters. Bearded wheat, which is 
called in fome counties cone-wheat, in others rivets, is 
here called yeogroves. A fpecies of oats called Jhegs is 
much cultivated in this county, and fuppofed to be pe¬ 
culiar to it: thefe afford a crop double that of any other 
kind of the fame grain in quantity, but not more than 
equal in weight: they will grow in the pooreft land, 
where indeed nothing elfe can be raifed ; and are reckon¬ 
ed very fweet food for cattle of all kinds. In the Gene¬ 
ral View, this fort of oats is faid to be the A vena (lipifor- 
mis of Linnaeus. Its produce on bad land is feldom lefs 
than four quarters, and on good land fourteen or fifteen. 
Hops are cultivated to a confiderable extent in the cen¬ 
tral parts of the county, about Ollerton, and indeed in 
moft places of the “ north 'clay,” by which diftinftive 
appellation they are generally known among traders. Mr. 
Lowe informs us, that thefe hops are much ftronger than 
the Kentifh, “ going almoft as far again in ufe ;” but 
thofe who are accuftomed to the latter, objeft to their 
flavour, as rank ; a circumftance which of courfe operates 
againft them in the market. At Scrooby, and a few fpots 
in the northern diftrift, weld, fometimes called the dyer’s 
weed, has likewife been long an objeft of culture. It is 
commonly fown with the barley and clover, at half-a-peck 
to an acre; and is pulled up from among the clover the 
year following, about the time when the latter is coming 
Into bloom. 
Few cattle are bred in this county, except on the banks 
of the Soar, where a number of cows are reared for the 
dairy. Sheep, however, are bred in great numbers, in al¬ 
moft every diftrift. They are chiefly the old foreft kind, 
or crofl’es of that breed with the Lincolnfhire and new 
Leicefterfliire breeds. The old foreft-fheep, when with- 
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