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Once More In The Heart Of England
The eastern half of the Heart of England, that's where this is. It's every bit
the heart of England as Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, The West Midlands and the rest. When people think of Nottinghamshire,
the first thought is generally,
Robin Hood, well that's all very well and good, but, there is much more to this
county than Robin Hood, for instance, if you have ridden or ride a Raleigh bicycle, it came from Nottingham, if you have ever
read the poetry of Lord Byron, the family estate at Newstead Abbey is in Nottinghamshire and Byron himself is buried at the
Church of St Mary Magdalene in Hucknall
D.H. Lawrence, he was from Eastwood, just north of Nottingham, and many of the
locations in his books are a fictionalisation of that town. The lists go on and on, and we'll try and get to as many
of these points as possible, both people and locations....Time to go......
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