How and Why Nottingham has Grown.

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Geography Project- How and Why Nottingham has Grown

Nottingham is a fairly big city. It has quite a few big industry's like lace, boots tobacco etc. Nottingham is quite near the centre of England but a bit towards the east, as it is in the east midlands area. Nottingham has grown over a period of time for different reasons. Nottingham has been around a long time, since the 8th Century. At one point Nottingham was called Snottingham. The city has grown a lot since the 8th C when there would only have been a couple of hundred, in the medieval times there would have been about 5000 people and now days there are about 250 000 people.

The Anglo-Saxons first set Nottingham on the river Leen. We do not know a great deal of information about this time since it was a very long time ago, and there are not very many records about. Some villages that were fed up with their last town or village probably set it up. They would have chosen the site because there was a river for water and a good transport site. The defence must have been good otherwise Nottingham might not have grown. Sherwood Forest might have helped with the growth of Nottingham but this is not a certainty.
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In 920 Trent Bridge was built, that would attract tradesmen as it was a crossing point for them. Also if anybody was travelling north they might have to cross the river Trent depending on which way they were going. Therefore if people were crossing Trent Bridge they would have to go through Nottingham and maybe stay there. This would help Nottingham grow financially, as businesses would expand as they became richer.

When the Normans came to Britain in the invasion they built a castle called Nottingham castle. They did this because they wanted to keep peace and ...

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