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Nottinghamshire

Administrative (pop., 2001: 748,503), geographic, and historic county, East Midlands, north-central England. It has coalfields and railway lines in the west, and in its centre it contains a broad belt of infertile sandstone. It is the location of the medieval forest of Sherwood, the haunt of Robin Hood, which stretched north from the city of Nottingham. Farmland is found in the Vales of Trent and Belvoir, where agriculture includes dairy farming. The chief river is the Trent, along which there are numerous thermal electric power stations. The southwestern part of the county is densely populated and heavily industrialized.

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