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- The first mention of the shire of Nottingham occurs in 1016, when it was harried by Canute.
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The counties of England in 1086. The first mention of the shire of Nottingham occurs in 1016, when it was harried by Canute.
The county was settled by Angles around the 5th century, and became part of the Kingdom, and later Earldom, of Mercia. However, there is evidence of Saxon settlement at the Broxtowe Estate, Oxton , near Nottingham, and Tuxford , east of Sherwood Forest .
May 11, 2024 · The county formed part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, and, after the Danish invasion in the 9th century, Nottingham became one of the five Danish boroughs. During the 16th century several dukes acquired much of northern Sherwood Forest and established the estates now known as the Dukeries.
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Nov 11, 2007 · In 1449 King Henry VI granted Nottingham a charter by which the town was separated completely from the administration of the shire, and thus became a county as well as a town. Two buildings, however, were exempted from the change: the castle and a “messuage called the King’s Hall, wherein is our gaol for our Counties of Nottingham and Derby”.
In 1889 Nottingham became a county borough under the Local Government Act 1888. City status was awarded as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria, being signified in a letter from the prime minister, the Marquess of Salisbury to the mayor, dated 18 June 1897.
May 9, 2003 · There is no historical account of the coming into existence of Nottinghamshire. At one time the area it covers seems to have been divided between the kingdoms of Mercia and Lindsey. It certainly existed as a shire before 1016, for the word Snotingahamscire occurs in writings of that date.
Mar 6, 2008 · Nigel Bell. From caves to coal, Byron to Boots. Read our short history of Robin Hood county. Origins. There is evidence of human settlement in Nottinghamshire dating back thousands of years....
