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Nottinghamshire (Nottingham, Mansfield, Worksop, Newark, Retford,
Southwell)
A visitor is not long in Nottingham
before he hears of the caves in the Castle Rock and elsewhere, and
is taken to see them. Today they are merely curiosities, but in
bygone years some of them were used as dwellings. The earliest
historic notice of Nottingham refers to the place under the British
name Tigguocobauc, which means ?the house of caves.? From this has
arisen the erroneous impression that the present name also has the
same meaning.
Before it was modified by Norman influence the name had several
forms, e.g. Snothryngham, Snottingaham, Snottingham?but Snotengaham
was the earliest. This ending ?ham? is akin to the word home, and is
of Anglo-Saxon origin. It tells us of a people who came to this
country not, as the Romans did, to exploit, but to colonise and to
make for themselves a home.
Caves in Rock Cemetery, Nottingham
With the City of Nottingham is associated a large extent of country
known by the interchangeable names of Nottinghamshire and the County
of Nottingham. These also reflect the influence of the Anglo-Saxons
and Normans respectively. The suffix ?shire? is akin to the word
?share,? and like it signifies a division, something cut off.
?County? only dates from Norman times and denotes the domain of a
Comte or Count.
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