![]() ![]() They have played at the City Ground, on the south bank of the River Trent, since 1898. ![]() Nottingham Forest, who currently play in the Level 2 Football League Championship, were English Level 1 champions in 1978 and won the European Cup twice over the next two seasons under the management of Brian Clough, who was the club's manager from January 1975 to May 1993, leading them to four Football League Cup triumphs in that time. They currently play in the Vanarama National League, at Level 5 in the English football league system (most recently played at Level 1 in May 1992). For most of their history they have played their home games at Meadow Lane, which currently holds some 20,000 spectators, all seated. They were also among the Football League's founder members in 1888. Notts County, formed in 1862, is the oldest professional football club in the world. Their two football grounds, facing each other on opposite sides of the River Trent, are noted for geographically being the closest in English league football. Nottingham is home to two professional football clubs: Notts County and Nottingham Forest. A short length of the wall survives, and is visible at the northern end of Maid Marian Way, and is protected as a Scheduled Monument. The ditch was later widened, in the mid-13th century, and a stone wall built around much of the perimeter of the town. Defences consisted initially of a ditch and bank in the early 12th century. Eventually, the space between was built on as the town grew and the Old Market Square became the focus of Nottingham several centuries later. A settlement also developed around the castle on the hill opposite and was the French borough supporting the Normans in the castle. Following the Norman Conquest the Saxon settlement developed into the English Borough of Nottingham and housed a Town Hall and Law Courts. The Anglo-Saxon settlement was originally confined to the area today known as the Lace Market and was surrounded by a substantial defensive ditch and rampart, which fell out of use following the Norman Conquest and was filled by the time of the Domesday Survey (1086). ![]() Visitors can see the writer’s former bedroom, the Great Hall where he apparently kept a bear, and a variety of manicured gardens and lakes.Nottingham Castle was constructed in 1068 on a sandstone outcrop by the River Leen. ![]() Nine miles to the north and also owned by Nottingham City Council is Newstead Abbey, Byron’s other ancestral home, but later sold to Thomas Wildman, his old school friend and heir to a Jamaican plantation fortune. Whenever he approached her, however, she said, ‘I’m sorry I’m too busy knitting.’ Rather than take the hint, he went away and invented this thing that we’re looking at: the stocking frame.” From this first step in the mechanisation of the textile industry, Roger’s hour-long tour takes in numerous other Nottingham innovations, such as the first overground wagonway, built in 1603 to carry coal between Strelley and Wollaston and vital to the development of the railways. “In 1589, so the story goes, William Lee of Calverton was doing his best to meet an unmarried local lady who earned her living knitting gloves, socks and stockings. “I trace the start of the Industrial Revolution to Nottingham”, Roger Clifford, a volunteer at the museum told me. ![]()
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