Nottingham

Visit to Nottingham

(February 19, 2012)

We headed 15 miles east on a car adventure.

The Caves

The area was originally known as `Tiggua Cobaucc`, meaning ‘place of caves’, and the first  reference to Tiggua Cobaucc was in The Life Of King Alfred, by Welsh monk and historian, Asser, the Bishop of Sherborne, who visited Nottingham around 900 AD. The caves were used for housing as early as the 11th century, and troglodytes were certainly recorded in the 17th century. Many were inhabited until 1845, when the St. Mary’s Enclosure Act banned the rental of cellars and caves as homes for the poor, though the practice continued.

A tannery in the caves

Hard hats for the tour

 

The rock is sandstone - makes for roomy walking

Nottingham Castle

The Castle Grounds

Older part of the original castle of Nottingham built in 1066 for William the Conqueror. Situated on a high rock in Nottingham (see pic below)  the Castle commands a neat view over the city. 
The main castle was destroyed in the UK civil war and was replaced by the current mansion in 1674. There are a series of caves underneath the castle that leads down to the city. 

Looking out from the Castle

Cathedral Church of St Barnabas

  Constructed in 1844.  Neat sunlight coming in through the stained glass when we were there.  St Joseph statue on the left and the Sacred Heart statue is to the right.  Haze was incense from the last ceremony.