"Nottinghamshire"

• County of central England
• Area: 834 sq mi
• Towns and cities:
  • Nottingham (administrative headquarters)
  • Mansfield
  • Worksop
  • Newark
• Features:
  • river Trent
  • the 'Dukeries' including the remaining areas of Sherwood Forest (home of Robin Hood), formerly a royal hunting ground
  • Cresswell Crags (remains of prehistoric humans)
  • D H Lawrence commemorative walk from Eastwood (where he lived) to Old Brinsley Colliery
• Industries:
  • cereals
  • cattle
  • sheep
  • light engineering
  • footwear
  • limestone
  • coal mining
  • ironstone
  • oil
  • cigarettes
  • tanning
  • furniture
  • pharmaceuticals
  • typewriters
  • gypsum
  • gravel

    There are many orchards, and there is market gardening.

• Population: 980,600
• Famous people:
  • William Booth
  • D H Lawrence
  • Alan Sillitoe
• History:

  In World War II Nottinghamshire produced the only oil out of U-boat reach, and drilling revived in the 1980s.