Editing Nottinghamshire (section)

=== Settlements and features ===
The traditional county town, and the largest settlement in the historic and ceremonial county boundaries, is the [[Nottingham|City of Nottingham]].  The city is now administratively independent, but towns including [[Arnold, Nottinghamshire|Arnold]], [[Carlton, Nottinghamshire|Carlton]], [[West Bridgford]], [[Beeston, Nottinghamshire|Beeston]], and [[Stapleford, Nottinghamshire|Stapleford]] are still within the administrative county, and West Bridgford is where the county council are based.

There are several [[market town]]s in the county.  [[Newark-on-Trent]] is a bridging point of the [[Fosse Way]] and [[River Trent]], but is actually an Anglo-Saxon market town with a now ruined [[Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire|castle]].  [[Mansfield]], the second-largest settlement in the county after Nottingham, sits on the site of a [[Roman Britain|Roman]] settlement, but grew after the [[Norman Conquest]].  [[Worksop]], in the north of the county, is also an Anglo-Saxon market town which grew rapidly in the [[Industrial Revolution]], with the arrival of [[canal]]s and railways and the discovery of coal.  Other market towns include Arnold, [[Bingham, Nottinghamshire|Bingham]], [[Hucknall]], [[Kirkby-in-Ashfield]], [[Tuxford]], [[Retford]] and [[Sutton-in-Ashfield]].

The main railway in the county is the [[Midland Main Line]], which links London to [[Sheffield]] via Nottingham.  The [[Robin Hood Line]] between Nottingham and Worksop serves several villages in the county.  The [[East Coast Main Line]] from London to [[Doncaster]], [[Leeds]], [[York]], [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], and [[Scotland]] serves the eastern Nottinghamshire towns of Newark and Retford.

The [[M1 motorway]] runs through the county, connecting Nottingham to London, Leeds, and Leicester by road.  The [[A1 road (Great Britain)|A1 road]] follows for the most part the path of the Great North Road, although in places it diverges from the historic route where towns have been bypassed.  Retford was by-passed in 1961, and Newark-on-Trent was by-passed in 1964, and the A1 now runs between Retford and Worksop past the village of [[Ranby, Nottinghamshire|Ranby]].  Many historic [[coaching inn]]s can still be seen along the traditional route.

[[East Midlands Airport]] is just outside the county in [[Leicestershire]], while [[Doncaster Sheffield Airport]] lies within the historic boundaries of Nottinghamshire.  These airports serve the county and several of its neighbours.  Together, the airports have services to most major European destinations, and East Midlands Airport now also has services to [[North America]] and the [[Caribbean]].  As well as local bus services throughout the county, Nottingham and its suburbs have a tram system, [[Nottingham Express Transit]].

Nottingham and its surrounding areas form part of the [[Nottingham Urban Area]] while Bassetlaw is a non-constituent part of the Sheffield City Region.