Places to explore in NottinghamshireEngland · East Midlands

Lord Byron's gothic priory-turned-mansion and lakes.

Flamboyant Elizabethan hall in a deer park.

Ancient oak forest of the Robin Hood legend.

4.3 km²

Vast oak of perhaps a thousand years deep in Sherwood, its huge limbs propped, storied as Robin Hood's hideout.

Ornate Victorian waterworks near Papplewick, a cathedral of polished beam engines, brass and stained glass.

Vast parkland with a lake and lime avenue.

Farm shop on the historic Welbeck estate with an award-winning butchery, part of a food-focused Nottinghamshire estate.

Ridge-top viewpoint over the Trent levels and the Isle of Axholme, long a warning-beacon site above the village.

Maze of man-made sandstone caves beneath Nottingham, medieval tannery and wartime air-raid shelters cut into the rock.

Trent-side village pub serving good-value, pubby cooking near Southwell.

Ducal mansion on a caved sandstone rock.

Large wetland reserve of former sand quarries along the River Idle north of Retford, rich in breeding and wintering birds.