Grantham is located approximately south of the city of Lincoln, and approximately east of the city of Nottingham.

The town fielded at times as many as 600 soldiers, and raided Nottingham, Grantham, Northampton, Gainsborough, and others with mixed success, but enough to cause it to rise to national notice.

In 1851 the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway completed its line from Grantham as far as Colwick, from where a branch led to the Midland's Nottingham station.

The Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway opened from Colwick, near Nottingham, to Grantham in July 1850 ( using a tempoarary station in Grantham pending completion of the towns line ).

Also acquired in 1861 was the ANB & EJR line from Nottingham to Grantham.

Mining was supported by the extension of the Great Northern Railway Woolsthorpe branch line in 1883, on which Stanton's rolling stock took the ironstone to the main Grantham to Nottingham line.

* 8 canals, including the Ashton ; Chesterfield ; Macclesfield ; Nottingham & Grantham ; Peak Forest

Trains run the full length of this and the Nottingham to Grantham Line to give connections to the East Midlands.

It ran from Grantham on the East Coast Main Line via Nottingham Victoria, over the famous Bennerley Viaduct ( which still stands today ) and Derby Friargate Station.

* The Allington Chord was constructed near Grantham in 2006, allowing services between Nottingham and Skegness to pass under the line, rather than crossing it at a flat junction.

It runs east from a junction with the A53 at Newcastle-under-Lyme near Stoke-on-Trent via Ashbourne, Derby, Stapleford, Nottingham, West Bridgford, Bingham, Grantham, Boston and Skegness to the east Lincolnshire coast at Mablethorpe.

As William Jessop was surveying the Nottingham Canal at the time, he was aked to survey the Grantham route as well, and a bill was put before Parliament in 1792.

In common with most canals, competition from railways posed a major threat, and in 1845 the canal owners agreed to sell it to the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway when their line from Ambergate to Grantham was opened.

A plan to fill in a section of the canal in Nottingham resulted in a number of letters appearing in the local press in 1963, and a student at Kesteven College produced a report on the state of the canal, which was presented to the Grantham Civic Society.

With a population of around 9, 000 people it lies about nine miles east of Nottingham, a similar distance south-west of Newark-on-Trent and west of Grantham.

Bingham also has its own railway station which provides a less frequent service to Nottingham, Grantham & beyond.

The canal is not presently navigable, however, as nearby road bridges have been removed, though in other areas of the Nottingham Grantham canal some bridges have been rebuilt to accommodate canal traffic.

* Frank Radcliffe ( later organist of St. Wulfrum's Church, Grantham, and St. Mary's Church, Nottingham )

Poyntz had not followed him beyond Skipton, and was now watching the King from Nottingham, while Rossiter with the Lincoln troops was posted at Grantham.

In his lifetime, Henry Wilson only produced four sets of bronze doors, St Mary's Church, Nottingham, the chapel at Welbeck Abbey, the Salada Tea Company in Boston and these for the cathedral.

* Other routes planned for closure which survived included: Settle-Carlisle Line, Ipswich – Lowestoft, Manchester – Sheffield via Edale ( but the Woodhead Line and Bakewell routes closed instead ), Ayr – Stranraer, Glasgow – Kilmarnock, Glasgow – Edinburgh via Shotts, Barrow – Whitehaven, Middlesbrough – Whitby, York – Harrogate, Leeds / Bradford – Ilkley, Nottingham – Lincoln, Boston – Skegness, Birkenhead – Wrexham, Liverpool – Southport ( and other Merseyside commuter routes ), Bury-Manchester, Leicester – Peterborough, Hastings – Ashford and Ryde – Shanklin.

Examples may be seen in the window of the old hall ( library ) at Boston Grammar School, and on the wall of the Dining Room at Lincoln Hall, University of Nottingham.

The event was run in Nottingham every year until 2008 when it was moved to Boston where it now runs in conjunction with the GB Rowing Team 1st Senior / U23 Assessment.

As the Drain crosses the line of the Midfen Dyke, just before the Nottingham to Boston railway joins it at Great Hale pumping station, the boundary turns northwards, following its medieval course.

Shortly afterwards a proposal was made for an Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway which however never materialised, apart from a stretch between Colwick and Grantham.

East Midlands Trains services between Skegness and Nottingham pass through Boston, Sleaford and Grantham.

In time it would become part of the Midland Railway's main line between London and Manchester, but it was initially planned as a route from Manchester to the East of England, via the proposed Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway which would meet it a little further north along the North Midland line at Ambergate.

The original station at Grantham ( Old Wharf ) was opened when the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston & Eastern Junction Railway opened its line from Nottingham on 15 July 1850.

* Grantham, Skegness, Boston, Lincoln Central-Change at Nottingham

The service is supplemented with additional trains in the peak on route to / from Nottingham, Norwich and Sleaford.

It also has rail services to Lincoln, Doncaster, Sleaford, Spalding, Peterborough, Newark, Nottingham and Leicester.

Junctions near the town also connect to branches to Nottingham, and to Sleaford and Skegness.

** Hourly local East Midlands Trains service to Lincoln via East Midlands Parkway, Nottingham and Newark with peak hour trains to Sleaford

Big industrial cities such as Coventry, Birmingham, Manchester as well as parts of Newcastle and Nottingham also have large diaspora populations due to the Industrial Revolution and, in the case of the first two, the strength of the motor industry in the 1960s and 1970s.

Specific sites linked to Robin Hood include the Major Oak tree, claimed to have been used by him as a hideout, Robin Hood's Well, located near Newstead Abbey ( within the boundaries of Sherwood Forest ), and the Church of St. Mary in the village of Edwinstowe, where Robin and Maid Marian are historically thought to have wed. To reinforce this belief, the University of Nottingham in 2010 has begun the Nottingham Caves Survey with the goal " to increase the tourist potential of these sites ".

Considering these references to Robin Hood, it is not surprising that the people of both South and West Yorkshire lay some claim to Robin Hood, who, if he existed, could easily have roamed between Nottingham, Lincoln, Doncaster and right into West Yorkshire.

) Series of mutants, named Ler-x, Col-x, have been obtained and characterized ; mutant lines are generally available through stock centers, of which best known are the Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Center-NASC and the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center-ABRC in Ohio, USA.

Examples of models which have traditionally been taken to represent the type are the Nottingham and Scarborough.

Visiting companies have included Nottingham Playhouse, the Comédie-Française and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.

Then they learn that John intends to have himself crowned king by the Bishop of the Black Canons in Nottingham the next day.

Even so, at the time of the Lambert Simnel rising of 1487, there may have been some concern that the Stanleys were again hedging their bets, and “ there was relief in the royal host when the Stanleyites came in at Nottingham ”.

More specifically, at several points he gives an English name and follows it with the Welsh equivalent, even in the case of Nottingham, which seems unlikely to have had a native Welsh name.

Windmill Pointe Drive, and streets such as Bishop, Kensington, Yorkshire, Edgemont Park, Three Mile Drive, Devonshire, Buckingham, Berkshire, Balfour, and Nottingham among others, each have dozens of large, architecturally significant homes.

* Sherwood Forest, north of the city of Nottingham, England ; the place where the legendary Robin Hood is said to have lived

Newark's position as one of the few bridges on the River Trent in the area, its location along the Great North Road, ( the A1 ), and later with the advance of rail transport being at the junction between the East Coast Main Line and the route from Nottingham to Lincoln, and situated on a man-made navigable section of the River Trent, have all enhanced its growth and development.

By 1983 the line had been electrified from Moorgate to Bedford, but proposals to continue electrification to Nottingham and Sheffield have not been implemented.

Although the old North Midlands through Derby is the main express line ( since trains have to reverse at Nottingham ), there is still a half-hourly service from Nottingham itself to London.

Björk reacted to the positive reviews hesitantly, stating that if she'd " delivered exactly the same album and I came from Nottingham, I'd have got completely different reviews, normal down-to-earth ones " and that Debut " was a bit of a rehearsal and it's really not that good.

Sansom and Booth both began in the 1840s to preach to the poor and the sinners of Nottingham, and Booth would probably have remained as Sansom's partner in his new Mission ministry, as Sansom titled it, had Sansom not died of tuberculosis, in 1848.

In particular, scenes filmed at the Raleigh factory in Nottingham have the look of a documentary, and give the story a vivid sense of verisimilitude.

* An impromptu team formed in Nottingham around this time is understood to have been the original Notts County.

It is speculated that only one person educated in mathematics, John Toplis, headmaster of Nottingham High School 1806 – 1819, graduate from Cambridge and an enthusiast of French mathematics, is known to have lived in Nottingham at the time.

Earl of Winchilsea and Earl of Nottingham are two titles in the Peerage of England held by the Finch family that have been united under a single holder since 1729.