Nottingham is a vibrant and friendly city teaming with a unique mix of new and old attractions. The city has many legends and its colourful past is well preserved in several major attractions around the city centre. With plenty of parking for easy access to the city and all its attractions within a five minute walk, Broadmarsh is the perfect base for your visit to Nottingham.
Situated on a high rock, Nottingham Castle commands spectacular views over the city. Its history is chequered with sieges, murders and intrigue. Totally destroyed after the Civil War, it was replaced by a magnificent ducal mansion in 1674. Then in 1875 it was converted into the first municipal museum and art gallery outside London. Award-winning cave tours tell this history and take you down into the passageways and tunnels beneath the building. The museum, recently refurbished, now contains spectacular fine and decorative arts galleries, as well as galleries telling the story of Nottingham, the Sherwood Foresters Regimental Museum and an exciting programme of art exhibitions. The museum also has a shop, a cafe and a medieval playground within its grounds.
Nottingham Castle is a five minute walk from the Broadmarsh centre, bus station and car park.
Visit the Galleries of Justice for an insight in to Nottingham’s past. Travel back in time to the days when Nottingham Shire Hall was the only place in the UK where you could be tried, incarcerated and hanged on the front steps, all in the name of justice.
This historic site in the heart of the City`s Lace Market was in use as courts and prisons from the 1780s to the 1980s - although there has been a court on the site since at least 1375 and a prison since 1449.
The galleries of justice are a five minute walk from the Broadmarsh centre, bus station and car park.
Enter and explore a whole new world in the caves underneath Nottingham city and descend into the dark depths of the original Anglo-Saxon tunnels, meeting real cave-dwellers from its dramatic hidden past. See how these caves have been used and adapted over the Centuries by local people to escape and take refuge from the world above.
Opening Times: Every day from 10.30am to 4.30pm.
Last admission 4pm
The entrance to The Caves of Nottingham is located on the second floor of the Broadmarsh shopping centre.
Either by day in the historical tourist attraction or by night at the renowned medieval banquets, you’re always promised a merry welcome to Nottingham's legendary visitors' experience:
You can ride through medieval Nottingham in unique adventure cars and see, hear, touch and smell expertly captured scenes from the days when Robin stole from the rich and gave to the poor – with the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and his men in hot pursuit.
In the evenings you can join Robin and the lovely maid Marian along with court jesters and musicians to entertain you while you enjoy a sumptuous medieval banquet – come on, be an outlaw for the night!
The Tales of Robin Hood is situated in the heart of vibrant, historical Nottingham and only a five minute walk from the Broadmarsh centre, bus station and car park.
Visit the oldest Inn in Britain and find out how it got its name, how it got here and why it is known throughout the world?
Learn more about the ghosts that roam the many caves contained within the building. Past landlords who still watch over its visitors! The Cursed Galleon and the many hidden treasures and tales that have been handed down for over 800 years!
Visit The Trip and find out why countless number of people from all corners of the globe come back again to soak up a piece of Englands colourfull, and sometimes bloody, past!
The Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalemis a five minute walk from the Broadmarsh centre, bus station and car park.
The museum depicts the social history of Nottingham over the last 300 years. Housed in 17th century cottages adjacent to the famous 'Trip to Jerusalem' public house. Here you can experience being in a Victorian home, see inside a child’s bedroom, root through the cupboards in the kitchen and pump water. The numerous shops throughout the museum include an Edwardian grocery shop and a Victorian chemist's. A 1920s shopping experience is recreated in a row of shops including a barbershop, pawn shop, ironmongers, doctors, cobblers and music shop.
The gallery displays show objects that were made or used by people in Nottingham. You can also see the unusual rock-cut caves at the rear of the buildings that were converted for use as air raid shelters during the Second World War.
BrewhouseYard Museumis a five minute walk from the Broadmarsh centre, bus station and car park
The old market square has recently had a face lift and has reopened in the spring of 2007. Nottingham's old market square was traditionally a market place and after the council house was built in the 1920's it has been set aside for public use. Located in the heart of Nottingham it is traditionally the meeting point for locals and has seen large celebrations of the years including fairgrounds, festivals, protest rallies and even a temporary beach when it was transformed into Nottingham-by-the-Sea.
The market square located in the heart of Nottingham city centre and is a five minute walk from the Broadmarsh centre, bus station and car park
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