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Nottingham is a city and county town of Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands of England. Nottingham lies on the River Trent, which flows from Stoke-on-Trent to the Humber.
The main suburbs within the City of Nottingham include St. Anns, Bakersfield, Bulwell, Clifton and Sneinton.
The City of Nottingham boundaries are tightly drawn and exclude several suburbs and towns that are usually considered part of Greater Nottingham, including Arnold, Carlton, West Bridgford, Beeston and Stapleford. Outlying towns and villages include Hucknall, Eastwood, Tollerton, Ruddington, Ilkeston and Long Eaton of which the last two are in Derbyshire. The geographical area of Greater Nottingham includes several local authorities: Gedling, Broxtowe, Rushcliffe, Ashfield, Erewash and Amber Valley.
The 2001 census recorded a population of 270,300 in Nottingham itself, with an additional 613,723 people living in the surrounding conurbation (Greater Nottingham). The nearby East Midlands City of Leicester has more people than the City of Nottingham, but its metropolitan area is not as big or populus as Nottingham's.
Nottingham is famous for its involvement in lace-making, its association with the legendary outlaw Robin Hood, and the supposedly exceptional beauty of its young women. Perhaps not unrelatedly, Nottingham is also nationally famous for the high ratio of females to males, given at various times as between 3:1 to 6:1. In 2001, however, the official ratio was published as 1.015:1.
The heart of the city is the Old Market Square (the market moved in the 1920s), the largest such surviving in Europe. Most of the main shopping streets are around the square. The Council House, whose disproportionately tall dome can be seen for miles around, is at the top of the square. The bell inside the council house dome, named 'Little John', has the deepest tone of any bell in the country. The sound produced by the bell travels over 7 miles on a clear day, which leads to a claim that it is the country's loudest bell. This honour is actually held by London's Big Ben, which produces the loudest sound measured in decibels, but the sound travels a far shorter distance in London due to the landscape and the built-up nature of the surrounding districts. The Old Market Square is currently being redeveloped, and is due to be completed at the end of 2006[1].
A bohemian quarter of the city known as Hockley has arisen in recent years, situated close to the Lace Market area.
According to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Nottingham is one of the English regions eight core cities. Nottingham is the fastest growing city in England, and second fastest growing in the whole of the UK, behind only Glasgow.
Nottingham was named the "second worst place to live" in the UK by a recent programme on Channel 4. The show made claims about gun crime in the city, stating such things as that there is "one shooting a day". Comments such as this have earned Nottingham the title of "gun crime capital of the UK" in the media. The programme probably drew conclusions from statistics of the Queen's Med hospital; the UK's largest hospital, that also boasts a specialised gun wound clinic, so the figures will have been disproportionate of national averages. To put pay to this situation, Nottingham City Council recently employed extra staff, at a cost to local taxpayers of £300,000 per annum, in an attempt to ensure any future publicity about the city is more accurate and portrays the city in a more positive light.
The main suburbs within the City of Nottingham include St. Anns, Bakersfield, Bulwell, Clifton and Sneinton.
The City of Nottingham boundaries are tightly drawn and exclude several suburbs and towns that are usually considered part of Greater Nottingham, including Arnold, Carlton, West Bridgford, Beeston and Stapleford. Outlying towns and villages include Hucknall, Eastwood, Tollerton, Ruddington, Ilkeston and Long Eaton of which the last two are in Derbyshire. The geographical area of Greater Nottingham includes several local authorities: Gedling, Broxtowe, Rushcliffe, Ashfield, Erewash and Amber Valley.
The 2001 census recorded a population of 270,300 in Nottingham itself, with an additional 613,723 people living in the surrounding conurbation (Greater Nottingham). The nearby East Midlands City of Leicester has more people than the City of Nottingham, but its metropolitan area is not as big or populus as Nottingham's.
Nottingham is famous for its involvement in lace-making, its association with the legendary outlaw Robin Hood, and the supposedly exceptional beauty of its young women. Perhaps not unrelatedly, Nottingham is also nationally famous for the high ratio of females to males, given at various times as between 3:1 to 6:1. In 2001, however, the official ratio was published as 1.015:1.
The heart of the city is the Old Market Square (the market moved in the 1920s), the largest such surviving in Europe. Most of the main shopping streets are around the square. The Council House, whose disproportionately tall dome can be seen for miles around, is at the top of the square. The bell inside the council house dome, named 'Little John', has the deepest tone of any bell in the country. The sound produced by the bell travels over 7 miles on a clear day, which leads to a claim that it is the country's loudest bell. This honour is actually held by London's Big Ben, which produces the loudest sound measured in decibels, but the sound travels a far shorter distance in London due to the landscape and the built-up nature of the surrounding districts. The Old Market Square is currently being redeveloped, and is due to be completed at the end of 2006[1].
A bohemian quarter of the city known as Hockley has arisen in recent years, situated close to the Lace Market area.
According to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Nottingham is one of the English regions eight core cities. Nottingham is the fastest growing city in England, and second fastest growing in the whole of the UK, behind only Glasgow.
Nottingham was named the "second worst place to live" in the UK by a recent programme on Channel 4. The show made claims about gun crime in the city, stating such things as that there is "one shooting a day". Comments such as this have earned Nottingham the title of "gun crime capital of the UK" in the media. The programme probably drew conclusions from statistics of the Queen's Med hospital; the UK's largest hospital, that also boasts a specialised gun wound clinic, so the figures will have been disproportionate of national averages. To put pay to this situation, Nottingham City Council recently employed extra staff, at a cost to local taxpayers of £300,000 per annum, in an attempt to ensure any future publicity about the city is more accurate and portrays the city in a more positive light.
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