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Nottingham Hotels in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire with discounts and special offers
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On this site you will find many Nottingham Hotels with 70% off standard rates. They offer the best prices in the best areas of Nottingham. Nottingham is in the East Midlands, 100 miles northwest of London and 50 miles from Birmingham, close to the M1 motorway. Nottingham is renowned for its association with Robin Hood and the tales of his merry men in Sherwood Forest. The Nottingham Caves The city centre is its Old Market Square, with two main shopping centres The Victoria Shopping Centre and the Broad Marsh Shopping Centre. Nottingham Castle was built on a sandstone hill (as was much of Old Nottingham) and it is possible to explore the many tunnels and underground caverns through the Nottingham Caves. Other attractions in Nottingham City Centre include the Brewhouse Yard Museum, The Lace Market, Tales of Robin Hood, The Nottingham Playhouse, The Nottingham Theatre Royal, The Nottingham Royal Centre concert hall, and the National Ice Centre, home to the National Ice Skating Association. Sherwood Forest Nottingham hotels provide a base to explore Robin Hood Country. At Edwinstowe there is the Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre, where stands the Major Oak, reputed to be Robin Hood's favourite hideout. Further afield there is the National Watersports Centre at Holme Pierrepont, Newstead Abbey, Southwell Minster and Chatsworth House, just north of Matlock, home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. Controlling a strategic crossing point over the Trent, the Saxon town of NOTTINGHAM was built on one of a pair of sandstone hills whose 130-foot cliffs looked out over the river valley. In 1068, William the Conqueror built a castle on the other hill, and the Saxon and Norman communities traded on the low ground in between, the Market Square. The castle was a military stronghold and royal palace, the equal of the great castles of Windsor and Dover, and every medieval king of England paid regular visits. After the Civil War, the Parliamentarians slighted the castle and, in the 1670s, the ruins were cleared by the Duke of Newcastle to make way for a palace, whose continental - and, in English terms, novel - design he chose from a pattern book, probably by Rubens. Beneath the castle lay a market town which, according to contemporaries, was handsome and well kept - "One of the most beautiful towns in England", commented Daniel Defoe. But in the second half of the eighteenth century, the town was transformed by the expansion of the lace and hosiery industries. Within the space of fifty years, Nottingham's population increased from ten thousand to fifty thousand, the resulting slum becoming a hotbed of radicalism. In the 1810s, a recession provoked the hard-pressed workers into action. They struck against the employers and, calling themselves Luddites , after an apprentice-protester by the name of Ned Ludd, raided the factories to smash the knitting machines. This was but the first of several troubled periods. During the Reform Bill riots of 1831, the workers set fire to the duke's home in response to his opposition to parliamentary reform and, in the following decade, they flocked to the Chartist movement. The worst of Nottingham's slums were cleared in the late nineteenth century, when the city centre assumed its present structure, with the main commercial area ringed by alternating industrial and residential districts. Crass postwar development , adding tower blocks, shopping centres and a ring road, has embedded the remnants of the city's past in a townscape that will be dishearteningly familiar if you've seen a few other English commercial centres. National Express Coaches operates coach services from Nottingham to a number of cities. |
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Ramada Nottingham Hotel, Bostock Lane, Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire, NG10 4EP Express by Holiday Inn NOTTINGHAM CITY CENTRE, 7 Chapel Quarter, Chapel Bar, Maid Marian Way, Nottingham NG1 6JS Holiday Inn NOTTINGHAM-CASTLE MARINA, Castle Marina Park, Nottingham NG7 1GX Nottingham Gateway Hotel, Nuthall Road, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG8 6AZ Comfort Hotel Nottingham, George Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire NG1 3BP Nottingham City Centre (London Road) Premier Inn, Island Site, London Road, Nottingham NG2 4UU Nottingham City Centre (Goldsmith St) Premier Inn Browse more hotels in Nottingham |
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