#Nottingham su musicality professional#

In modern Welsh, Nottingham is known poetically as Y Tŷ Ogofog and in Irish as Na Tithe Uaimh, 'The Cavey Dwelling'. Ī settlement existed before the arrival of the Anglo Saxons in the early 7th century CE because it is known in the Brythonic as Tig Guocobauc, meaning Place of Caves (known also as 'City of Caves'). Some authors derive Nottingham from Snottenga (caves) and ham (homestead) but 'this has nothing to do with the English form'. A Saxon chieftain named Snot ruled an area known as Snotingaham in Old English the homestead of Snot's people ( -inga = 'the people of' -ham = 'homestead'). The name of Nottingham is Anglo-Saxon in origin. The city is served by three universities: the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and the Nottingham campus of the University of Law it hosts the highest concentration of higher education providers in the East Midlands. Lawrence and Alan Sillitoe having links to the city, as well as a contemporary literary community, a publishing industry and a poetry scene. The title reflects Nottingham's literary heritage, with Lord Byron, D.

In December 2015, Nottingham was named a ' City of Literature' by UNESCO, joining a list of 20 Cities of Literature. The city is served by Nottingham railway station and the Nottingham Express Transit tram system its bus company, Nottingham City Transport, is the largest publicly owned bus network in England. This accolade came just over a year after Nottingham was named as the UK's first City of Football.

#Nottingham su musicality professional#

The city has professional rugby, ice hockey and cricket teams it also hosts the Aegon Nottingham Open, an international tennis tournament on the ATP and WTA tours. The National Ice Centre, Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre and Trent Bridge international cricket ground are all based in or around the city, which is also the home of two professional football teams: Notts County, formerly the world's oldest professional league club, and Nottingham Forest, famously two-time winners of the UEFA European Cup under Brian Clough and Peter Taylor in 19. Nottingham is a major sporting centre and, in October 2015, was named 'Home of English Sport'. Aside from Birmingham, it is the only city in the Midlands to be ranked as a sufficiency-level world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. The metropolitan economy of Nottingham is the seventh-largest in the United Kingdom with a GDP of $50.9 billion (2014). The population of the Nottingham/ Derby metropolitan area is estimated to be 1,610,000. Its Functional Urban Area, the largest in the East Midlands, has a population of 919,484. It is the largest urban area in the East Midlands and the second-largest in the Midlands. The wider conurbation, which includes many of the city's suburbs, has a population of 768,638. In 2020, Nottingham had an estimated population of 330,000. Nottingham is a tourist destination in 2018, the city received the second-highest number of overnight visitors in the Midlands and the highest number in the East Midlands. The city is also the county town of Nottinghamshire and the settlement was granted its city charter in 1897, as part of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

Nottingham has links to the legend of Robin Hood and to the lace-making, bicycle and tobacco industries. It is located 110 miles (180 km) north-west of London, 33 miles (53 km) south-east of Sheffield and 45 miles (72 km) north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham ( / ˈ n ɒ t ɪ ŋ ə m/ ( listen) NOT-ing-əm, locally / ˈ n ɒ t n ʊ m/) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England.