When was nottingham founded

A generous gift by Sir Jesse Boot, of 35 acres of land at Highfields, presented the solution and in the College moved to what is now the main campus, University Park.

Initially, it was accommodated in the elegant Trent Building and was officially opened by King George V in November of that year. In , the college was awarded the Royal Charter and became The University of Nottingham, now able to award degrees in its own name.

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Nottingham was the first place in Britain to install high pressure constant supply mains water in During the Industrial Revolution , much of Nottingham's prosperity was founded on the textile industry ; in particular, Nottingham was an internationally important centre of lace manufacture. However, the rapid and poorly planned growth left Nottingham with the reputation of having the worst slums in the British Empire outside India.

Residents of these slums rioted in , in protest against the Duke of Newcastle 's opposition to the Reform Act , setting fire to his residence, Nottingham Castle. Businesses in other sectors founded in 19th century Nottingham included the Raleigh Bicycle Company and Boots the Chemist. They were originally known as Destructors.

The first horse drawn tramcars are operated by the Nottingham and District Tramways Company Limited in In Nottingham became a county borough under the Local Government Act City status was awarded as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria, being signified in a letter from the Prime Minister the Marquess of Salisbury to the Mayor, dated 18 June Electric trams operated by Nottingham Corporation Tramways begin on 1 January During one air raid alone people had been killed and 4, houses had been destroyed.

In common with the UK textile industry as a whole, Nottingham's textile sector fell into headlong decline in the decades following the World War II , as British manufacturers proved unable to compete on price or volume with output of factories in the Far East and South Asia.

Very little textile manufacture now takes place in Nottingham, but the City's heyday in this sector endowed it with some fine industrial buildings in the Lace Market district. Many of these have been restored and put to new uses. Nottingham was extended in by adding Bilborough and Wollaton , parts of the parishes of Bestwood Park and Colwick , and a recently developed part of the Beeston urban district. The Saxons were led by a chieftain named Snot.

Snot brought together his people in an area where the historic Lace Market in the City can now be found. As with many place names throughout England, the word has since been modified, to "Nottingham".

Nottingham was later captured by the Danes Vikings and in the 9th century became one of the five boroughs fortified towns of the Danelaw. In the 11th century , Nottingham Castle was constructed on a sandstone outcrop by the River Trent. A settlement also developed around the castle on the hill opposite and was the French borough supporting the Normans in the Castle.

Eventually, the space between was built on as the town grew and the Market Square became the focus of Nottingham several centuries later. The town became a county corporate in , giving it effective self-government, in the words of the charter, "for eternity".