Nottingham

Nottingham
Type:	City
Location:	England
First appearance:	The Thief of Sherwood [+]Loading...["The Thief of Sherwood (short story)"]
Appearances:	AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large [+]Loading...["Wildthyme at Large (audio story)"] TV: Robot of Sherwood GAME: Legacy [+]Loading...["Legacy (video game)"] HOMEVID: Sherwood Sorceress [+]Loading...["Sherwood Sorceress (home video)"]

Nottingham was a city in the Midlands of England, whose territory encompassed the notorious Sherwood Forest.

Geography

Nottingham was situated in the Midlands (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (2007 reference book)"]) on the River Trent. (TV: The Family of Blood ^[+]Loading...["The Family of Blood (TV story)"]) To the south-west of Nottingham was Birmingham. (TV: Army of Ghosts ^[+]Loading...["Army of Ghosts (TV story)"]) Trent Bridge was located in Nottingham. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? ^[+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"]) Other locations included Broadmarsh Street and the district of Radford Parade. (TV: The Family of Blood ^[+]Loading...["The Family of Blood (TV story)"])

History

Nottingham's location. (TV: Army of Ghosts ^[+]Loading...["Army of Ghosts (TV story)"])

In the 12th century, it was led by a Sheriff and it hosted a fair. The Doctor visited Nottingham, where he met the famous Robin Hood and the evil Sheriff of Nottingham: according to one account, it was the First Doctor with Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton, and Barbara Wright; (PROSE: The Thief of Sherwood ^[+]Loading...["The Thief of Sherwood (short story)"]) according to another account, the Twelfth Doctor with Clara Oswald. (TV: Robot of Sherwood ^[+]Loading...["Robot of Sherwood (TV story)"]) Iris Wildthyme also encountered Robin Hood in Nottingham, (AUDIO: Wildthyme at Large ^[+]Loading...["Wildthyme at Large (audio story)"]) and P.R.O.B.E. fought the Sherwood Sorceress, who was based in a stone circle within Sherwood Forest and used illusions of Robin Hood to lure her victims, in the 1990s and again in 2021. (HOMEVID: Sherwood Sorceress ^[+]Loading...["Sherwood Sorceress (home video)"])

John Smith, in 1913, claimed to be from Nottingham, unaware that this was part of his fictional biography created for him by the Tenth Doctor. (TV: Human Nature ^[+]Loading...["Human Nature (TV story)"])

In the 1960s, Ram Vermas, his wife and Haresh Chandra's parents moved from India to England. They settled in Nottingham. From there their families spread across the country. (PROSE: Day of the Clown ^[+]Loading...["Day of the Clown (novelisation)"])

According to the novel Gulliver's Travels, Nottingham was the birthplace of its protagonist Lemuel Gulliver. (TV: The Mind Robber ^[+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TV story)"])

During the ghost shift craze of 2007, ghosts, actually Cybermen from Pete's World, were forecast as appearing in Nottingham. (TV: Army of Ghosts ^[+]Loading...["Army of Ghosts (TV story)"])

Undated events

Sometime prior to March 2005, the Ninth Doctor went fishing near Trent Bridge in Nottingham. Chris Cave spotted him and later wrote about it on the conspiracy website Doctor Who?. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? ^[+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])