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History Museum Attractions In Nottinghamshire

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Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditional county town is Nottingham, though the county council is based in West Bridgford in the borough of Rushcliffe, at a site facing Nottingham over the River Trent. The districts of Nottinghamshire are Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Broxtowe, Gedling, Mansfield, Newark and Sherwood, and Rushcliffe. The City of Nottingham was administratively part of Nottinghamshire between 1974 and 1988, but is now a unitary authority, remaining part of Nottinghamshire for ce...
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History Museum Attractions In Nottinghamshire

  • 1. Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre Laxton
    Beth Shalom is a Holocaust memorial centre near Laxton in Nottinghamshire in England. Opened in 1995, it is England's only dedicated Holocaust museum, though there is also a permanent exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum. The centre was founded by brothers James and Stephen Smith following a 1991 visit to Israel during which a trip to Yad Vashem changed the way they looked at history and the Holocaust.The museum seeks to educate primary school children about the Holocaust through its primary exhibit on children's experiences, funded in part by a lottery grant of nearly £500,000. Prince Harry was educated about the Holocaust at the Centre following an incident when he wore a Nazi costume.On 21 July 2010, almost twenty years after the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre was founded, James an...
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  • 2. Mansfield Museum Mansfield
    Mansfield is a market town in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the main town in Mansfield local government district and part of the Mansfield Urban Area. Nestling in a pocket of the Maun Valley surrounded by hills, the town is some 12 miles north of Nottingham. The district is a largely urban area in the north west of Nottinghamshire, populated by 99,600 residents, most of whom live in Mansfield itself , with Market Warsop a secondary centre, and the remainder the rural north of the district. Adjacent to the urban area of Sutton-in-Ashfield, Mansfield is the only major sub-regional centre in Nottinghamshire, covering an area of 30 square miles . The Centre for Cities classes the town as a small city, although it does not have official city status. Mansfield is the one local authority area i...
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  • 3. The Robin Hood Legacy Nottingham
    The Robin Hood Battalion was a unit of the Volunteer Force of the British Army and Territorial Force, later the Territorial Army. The battalion served as infantry on the Western Front during World War I. In the 1930s it re-roled as an anti-aircraft unit and served in World War II, including North-western Europe from June 1944 to May 1945.
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  • 4. Great Central Railway - Nottingham Ruddington
    The Great Central Railway is a heritage railway in Leicestershire, named after the company that originally built this stretch of railway. The GCR is currently the only double track mainline heritage railway in the world, with 5.25 miles of working double track, period signalling, locomotives and rolling stock. It runs for 8.25 miles in total from the large market town of Loughborough to a new terminus just north of Leicester. Four stations are in operation, each restored to a period in the railway's commercial history: the 1950s Loughborough Central; Second World War and the remainder of the 1940s Quorn & Woodhouse; the Edwardian Era Rothley; the 1960s Leicester North.
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  • 5. The University of Nottingham Museum Nottingham
    Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, 128 miles north of London, 45 miles northeast of Birmingham and 56 miles southeast of Manchester, in the East Midlands. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robin Hood and to the lace-making, bicycle , and tobacco industries. It was granted its city charter in 1897 as part of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Nottingham is a tourist destination; in 2011, visitors spent over £1.5 billion—the thirteenth-highest amount in England's 111 statistical territories.In 2015, Nottingham had an estimated population of 321,550 with the wider urban area, which includes many of the city's suburbs, having a population of 915,977. Its urban area is the largest in the east Midlands and the second-largest in the Mid...
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  • 6. Wollaton Village Dovecote Museum Nottingham
    Wollaton is a suburb and former parish in the western part of Nottingham, England. Wollaton has two Wards in the City of Nottingham with a total population as at the 2011 census of 24,693. It is home to Wollaton Hall with its museum, deer park, lake, walks and golf course.
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  • 8. Mansfield Fire Museum Mansfield
    Mansfield is a market town in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the main town in Mansfield local government district and part of the Mansfield Urban Area. Nestling in a pocket of the Maun Valley surrounded by hills, the town is some 12 miles north of Nottingham. The district is a largely urban area in the north west of Nottinghamshire, populated by 99,600 residents, most of whom live in Mansfield itself , with Market Warsop a secondary centre, and the remainder the rural north of the district. Adjacent to the urban area of Sutton-in-Ashfield, Mansfield is the only major sub-regional centre in Nottinghamshire, covering an area of 30 square miles . The Centre for Cities classes the town as a small city, although it does not have official city status. Mansfield is the one local authority area i...
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