Nottinghamshire

Not·ting·ham·shire

geographical name \ˈnä-tiŋ-əm-ˌshir, -shər, US also -ˌham-\

Definition of NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

county N cen England ∗ Nottingham area 866 square miles (2243 square kilometers), pop 980,600

Variants of NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

Not·ting·ham·shire or Nottingham or Notts \ˈnäts\

Rhymes with NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

acyclovir, animalier, boulevardier, Buckinghamshire, carabineer, celestial sphere, charioteer, conventioneer, dollar-a-year, electioneer, elephant's ear, Eskisehir, free marketeer, harquebusier, heliosphere, ionosphere, Northamptonshire, orienteer

Nottinghamshire

   (Concise Encyclopedia)

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.