Industries: cigarettes, coal mining, engineering, footwear, furniture, gravel, gypsum, ironstone, light engineering, limestone, oil, pharmaceuticals, sandstone, textiles

Newark-on-Trent, a pleasant market town which has an attractive cobbled market place and Newark Castle where King John died in 1216. On the River Trent, 25 km / 16 miles west of Lincoln, Industries include engineering, the manufacture of ball and roller bearings, plasterboard and gypsum, and the processing of sugar-beet. The British Horological Institute is based here. The church of St Mary Magdalene has an Early English tower with a Decorated spire, and a mainly Perpendicular interior.

Edwinstowe, a pretty village on the River Maun, said to be home to the Major Oak where Robin Hood used to meet his Merry Men.

Nottingham
Industrial city and unitary authority on the River Trent. It was the administrative headquarters of the county of Nottinghamshire to April 1998. Industries include tourism, engineering, and the manufacture of bicycles, textiles, knitwear, pharmaceuticals, tobacco, lace, hosiery, and electronics.
The English Civil War began here in 1642, and the city expanded rapidly in the late 18th century as a centre of the lace industry.
Among the city's cultural attractions are the Nottingham Playhouse (1963), the Theatre Royal (1866), the Royal Concert Hall (1982), and the Castle Museum. There are two universities, the University of Nottingham (1881) and the Nottingham Trent University (1992), formerly the Trent Polytechnic. The Goose Fair, dating from the Middle Ages, is held here every October. The National Water Sports Centre is located to the east of the city, near the village of Holme Pierrepont. A Tudor mansion, Holme Pierrepont Hall, is also situated in the village. Nottingham has a racecourse, and test matches are played on the Trent Bridge cricket ground. The Harvey Haddon sports stadium opened in 1964.
Nottingham Castle
The heavily restored 13th-century gatehouse is all that remains of the original castle. Built on Castle Rock 40 m / 130 ft above the city soon after the Norman Conquest, the castle became a royal palace and fortress, but it was dismantled after the Civil War in 1651. A mansion was built on the site in 1674-78, but was burned during riots in 1831. It was restored and opened as a museum in 1878 as England's first provincial museum and art gallery. The collections include examples of Nottingham alabaster carving, a local industry of the 14th and 15th centuries.
The `Trip to Jerusalem´ Inn, below the castle, is said to be the oldest inn in England. The church of St Mary dates from the 15th century; St Peter's church is partly 12th and partly 15th century; and the church of St Nicholas was built in 1678. The Roman Catholic cathedral of St Barnabas was designed by Augustus Pugin. Other features include the old Lace Market with 19th-century warehouses, the Lace Hall museum, the Costume Museum, and the restored Green's Mill, where the mathematician George Green was once a miller. Wollaton Park (300 ha /741 acres) includes Wollaton Hall, an Elizabethan mansion, now a natural history museum. The former home of the writer D H Lawrence is located nearby at Eastwood. Newstead Abbey, to the north of the city, was once the home of the poet George Byron. The remains of Sherwood Forest, formerly a royal forest and the legendary home of Robin Hood, also lie to the north of the city.
From the 6th century Nottingham was a Saxon settlement known as `Snotingham´. It was occupied by the Danes in 868, and William the Conqueror occupied the town in 1086. Richard III had his headquarters at Nottingham Castle before the Battle of Bosworth. Charles I raised his standard here in 1642, and in 1643 the town and castle were taken by the Parliamentarians.
In 1589 the Reverend William Lee invented the first stocking-frame in Nottingham. Richard Arkwright introduced his first spinning-frames here in the late 18th century and James Hargreaves set up his spinning jenny in a small Nottingham cotton mill after being driven from his family home in Blackburn in the late 1760s. From the late 18th century the city's population grew rapidly with the expansion of the lace and hosiery industries. Luddite riots, caused by the introduction of machinery, took place in 1811-12 and 1816-17. In 1863 Jesse Boot, the pharmacist, took over his father's shop selling medicinal herbs, and began the manufacture of drugs in 1892.