Nottingham is much more than the lovely long and green woods it spreads over from its most northernly perch of East Midlands territory. It is pure bread, from the heart, heroically Robin Hood country and its most sought-after trail is the Robin Hood trail by one very interesting walker-guide-humourist-historian Ezekial Bone who lives the character to the hilt. His trails happen only on weekends and are booked well in advance. Beyond Robin Hood there more. Nottingham is also the place where the famous Boots pharmacy started off in 1849, as a herbal story if you please! Then there is no less a writer than DH Lawrence, the author of Lady Chatterley’s Lover who was born in 10 km north-west of Nottingham. A coal mining city in the yore of English industry, the city is also known for its 19th century lace industry and the Lace Market is beeping light on the Nottingham tourist map. The Lace Market is close to Old Market Square where you will find a statue of another man who some might describe as a heroic outlaw. Brian Clough, the outspoken football manager, led unheralded Nottingham Forest from the second tier of the English game to successive European Cup triumphs in the late 1970s. Forest’s ground on the banks of the River Trent is located close to Trent Bridge cricket ground and forms, along with the home of Notts County, the oldest professional football league club in the world.
