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A History of Nottinghamshire by Cornelius Brown (1896)

Cornelius Brown

Preface

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

 

 

CONTENTS

CHAPTER XXII.

GEOLOGY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.

Natural Features dependent on Soils—Coal-Measures: their Extent under the County—The Magnesian Limestone and Creswell ‘Bone-Caverns’ —The New Red Sandstone, and the ‘Forest Lands’ of Notts—Hemlock Stone—The Keuper Marls and Gypsum—The Lias—Ancient Course of the Trent to Lincoln and the Wash—Museums

CHAPTER XXIII.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE.

The Treasures in the Stately Homes of Nottinghamshire—List of Country Seats — Ecclesiastical Buildings— Southwell Minster— Its Chapter-House—Newark Parish Church—The Church at Blyth—Worksop Priory Church—Parochial Churches

CHAPTER XXIV.

LEGEND, TRADITION, AND ANECDOTE.

Robin Hood and his Band—Ballads of the Period—The Gothamites—The King and the Miller of Mansfield—Ancient Instruments of Torture— The Plough Bullocks—Riding the Stang—The Fair Maid of Clifton —St. Catherine’s Well at Newark—Nan Scott’s Chamber at Holme—Dick Turpin and his Accomplice-The Poets of the Newark Sieges-Hercules Clay and his Dream

CHAPTER XXV.

DIALECT AND FOLKLORE.

Provincial Words: their Origin and Use-Examples from Great Writers —Superstitions and Proverbial Sayings—Eccentric Epitaphs

CHAPTER XXVI.

FLORA AND FAUNA.

The Nottinghamshire Flora—County Floras—Dr. Deering’s ‘Catalogus Stirpium’—Mr. Ordoyno’s ‘Flora Nottinghamiensis’‘—Dr. Howitt’s ‘Nottinghamshire Flora’—The Nottingham Catchfly— Its History and Peculiarities—The Meadow Crocus—Fauna of the County—List of Notts Birds

 

 

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