We just spent 6 months in Nottingham and it was amazing, so much history and green spaces, including the Aboretum, Colwick Park and lakes and Wollaton Park with its Deers! Fantastic walks along the canals too and great pubs! Also great place for exploring the UK as right in the middle! 2 pound to go anywhere on the bus and trams that crisscross the city, looking forward to going back!! I would say very underrated!! Well worth a visit!!
We nearly didn’t go because google made it look like just a play park but glad we did. If you pay a visit there is a cafe and art gallery in the grounds too as well as crazy golf! Parking was a little on the sparse side though but the trams do stop nearby.
Funnily enough i only visited Nottingham for the first time recently, had no preconceptions of the city, but really liked the place and alot to see and do!
Go to Burghley House in Stamford if you can swing it. If you want to see an Elizabethan manor you won't be disappointed, and it has a very kid friendly "Garden of Surprises".
The grand building with the clock tower at Highfields Park is one of the University of Nottingham buildings. I was lucky enough to do my undergrad there :)
grew up there so nice to see highfields and wollaton part again.. Thanks so much .. Im stuck in Isla Margarita in the caribbean now so I'm a long way away
Awesome video guys! Great to see Nottinghams better side for once. Next time you are in Nottingham, you should go to an ice Hockey game at the arena! Always a great night! Also the Hockley/lace market area has some awesome bars.
I was there a few weeks ago and enjoyed the Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem. Prices were normal and they had a great selection of beer. I enjoyed my pint outside under the impressive English oaks. Food smelled good too. They also have a pretty cool canal museum and the downtown itself is nice to walk around. Definitely a small town though. Possibly a good base from which to explore the region. They do need to exploit the Robin Hood angle more.
Hi guys, another great video. Do you research what you want to do, or just find places to go when you are there. I obviously need to be more organised when visiting different towns. Look forward to the next video.
A bit of both really. We research places and things to do in the city and have a rough itinerary of the most important things we want to see or do but we are always flexible if we come across something unexpected and we like to walk wherever possible because that’s when we tend to stumble across hidden gems.
I love Nottingham, I've been going there since the 90's when they had a terrific rock / indie club night at Nottingham Rock City every Saturday! That club night is long gone but I still get to Rock City for a gig as often as I can (best live venue in the country imho!) and it's always a pleasure to revisit the city itself, certainly an under-rated place.
I love Nottingham, so much to see, lots of history. There are several lace museums, the shopping is fantastic plus in the Victoria centre there some caves you can go down into. People used to do several jobs down there like tannery
As someone who went to the University of Nottingham, it's an okay city, it's very student orientated, it's dead in the summer, but it's a nice little city, also that big white building with the clocktower is part of the university, it was the original main university building, I used to live opposite the park in my second year! Also, look up the gnomes of wallaton park
You kept walking right past places. You should've gone into Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem pub, because most of the rooms are caves under the castle. There's a very cool industrial museum in Wollaton Hall stables building. Can't believe you missed it. There's also the City of Caves tour (unsurprisingly in the City Centre), the Galleries of Justice, a number of cool pubs along the canal, Green's Mill - a working windmill and science centre not that far out of the centre, and a Hooters restaurant.
Nottingham born and bred here, you NEED to come back. There's so so so so so much more to see. The galleries of justice, the pitcher and piano. The official cave tour under the city. The old salutation inn, Snenton Market. All of this is within the city boundary. Also there's a tunnel that was built too small for coaches, a medieval stairway currently being restored, and if you are interested a ghost tour of the city where you explore more caves. Realistically you need more than a day here to truly experience this wonderful city
There are more caves you can go round, I'm from nottingham. Not sure if they are open though because they were in the broadmarsh shopping centre and that has been knocked down
How good is Nottingham for a visitor ? After many years without any holidays, my wife and I (both in our 60s) had a short break to London in Nov 2022. We travelled by train from Newcastle and loved it, so much so, we have had several breaks since, to Edinburgh (twice) Glasgow, London again, Leeds, Manchester, York and Liverpool and we still have London and Glasgow again this year. I am thinking of somewhere new to visit, for late in the year, or even early 2025, hence the question. My wife likes the shops, while we both also enjoy seeing new places of interest, such as museums, cathedrals etc. Birmingham, Chester, Cardiff, Sheffield, Aberdeen, Inverness are other possibilities.
Nottingham is great, there is lots to do from museums and caves to plenty of shopping. All the cities you have mentioned are great to explore, we do live Sheffield and have a new video from there coming next Sunday. It’s also not far between there and Nottingham.
The smaller historic towns and cities are great to visit, the bigger cities have changed so much, largely for the worse really. York and Whitby are ace. But do come to Nottingham too! Sure you'll be hapoy if you do!
Loved this, brought back memories from my (Matt’s) home city. Thank you. Film fact Wollaton Hall was in one of the Batman films. Now over to Coventry 😂.
Great vid! Please do re-visit Notts, it’s got such a lot to offer, including arts and culture and beautiful architecture. The nightlife is pretty good too. I really enjoyed your Coventry video, it’s inspired me to check out the ruins, climb the steeple and see the medieval buildings. Thanks!
Glad to hear you enjoyed this video and our Coventry one. We will definitely come back to Nottingham at some point. Any specific recommendations for us when we do?
@@JJExtra I’d recommend visiting the City of Caves tour, National Justice Museum, Contemporary art gallery, the Exchange for the art work, Hockley for independent shopping and food, Sneinton Market for independent shopping and food, a gig at Rock City if there’s one on, and walk around the Arboretum! A walk around the canal is nice too. Enjoy 😊
wollerton hall? do you mean wollerton hall, pronounced wullerton? always fun to hear someone pronouncing the name of something they have no example to draw on :D nottingham is definitely completely underrated, but there was more to it a few years ago before everything started closing down. The castle isnt what you'd expect as the original castle was burned down in a tax revolt in the 1700s and rebuilt again in a more modern (for the time) form.
It’s always a challenge with the pronunciation, especially of places as regional variations are so huge. Thank you for letting us know of the correct way to say it! Sure we will be back in Nottingham in the future to explore more, let’s see if we can remember to get it right 😂
Nottingham lad myself been here 37 years its had good times however like most major cities in the UK today, it's got it bad side. Not to scare off tourist or potential people moving here, If visiting stay away from certain estates at night knife crime is a big problem here. On the upside first week in October there's The Goose Fair and All year round you have Wollaton Park Deer and all the outdoor goodness and Newstead Abbey plenty of other great places too.
It’s a beautiful city. I feel like we say this with most cities we visit in the U.K. but we really did only scratch the surface, our itinerary was much larger but we underestimated some of the places we went and how long we’d spend there 😂
Nice video as usual. As a non-Brit it would be nice if you showed on a map where your going. I heard of a lot of these places but not sure where in UK they are. I alway have to look where the place is after watching your video.
Hi Mark, glad to hear you are enjoying the videos. Thank you for the feedback it’s really useful, we will try to figure out the best way we can incorporate your suggestion going forward 😊
Nottinghamshire is pretty much in the middle. Hence, it's part of the East Midlands. There's a lot to see. Sizewise, from driving into the most southern part of the city to the Northern part of the County would be about an hour and a half so it's not massive but lots to see.
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Id love to visit Nottingham if it wasnt for that mean Sheriff everyone is always on about. Im not sure Britain is for me what with all the mean Sheriffs, torture dungeons, et al.
Nottingham has always been worth a visit, but the visitor experiences like the robin hood experience were so bad they were a comedy visit. Finally they have caught us up with decent facilities and experience. The caves have been improved too if that interests you
We were told the very same thing the first time we visited and didn’t know it existed so we made sure we didn’t make the same mistake again. The interior was cool 👌🏻
Just here to point out that Nottingham castle is not a castle, it's a 17th century ducal manor built by the then Duke of Newastle and his family on the site of old Nottingham castle that came down during the English civil war after standing proud for 500 or so years.
Nottingham is a shadow of its former self . The "castle" is not worth a visit anymore ,Woolaton Hall is good tho . The caves and Halls of justice are OK ..not many good shops left . Places to eat ??? So so People..top notch .
I really enjoy Nottingham, good value and lots to do. Only downsides are some dodgy Pakistani-dominated areas, and the council (if you live in the city proper) are useless
See another of the UK’s under-rated cities here 👉🏻 ua-cam.com/video/NgYSzxmbEfE/v-deo.htmlsi=m-G_dV06q38raPPu
I moved to Nottingham completely by accident, so far I've found it great so much to see and do I love it
We just spent 6 months in Nottingham and it was amazing, so much history and green spaces, including the Aboretum, Colwick Park and lakes and Wollaton Park with its Deers! Fantastic walks along the canals too and great pubs! Also great place for exploring the UK as right in the middle! 2 pound to go anywhere on the bus and trams that crisscross the city, looking forward to going back!! I would say very underrated!! Well worth a visit!!
Totally agree! We didn’t get to ride the trams this time, we must do it on our next visit!
fun, like your jokes mate, "" the Clangers"" haha
Thanks for the visit to Highfields Park. We love Nottingham and didn't even know it existed 😂👍
We nearly didn’t go because google made it look like just a play park but glad we did. If you pay a visit there is a cafe and art gallery in the grounds too as well as crazy golf! Parking was a little on the sparse side though but the trams do stop nearby.
I was so lucky. My uni commute was about 7 mins longer because I walked through the park to get in, as opposed to the entrance further up
Funnily enough i only visited Nottingham for the first time recently, had no preconceptions of the city, but really liked the place and alot to see and do!
I was born there and lived there for 35 years , and I still get back to see family and miss it
This video was super helpful for planning our visit to Nottingham -Family from the US
That’s great to hear thank you! Hope you have a great visit ☺️☺️
Go to Burghley House in Stamford if you can swing it. If you want to see an Elizabethan manor you won't be disappointed, and it has a very kid friendly "Garden of Surprises".
Don't go it's dangerous I've lived here my whole life and there's stabbing everywhere
The grand building with the clock tower at Highfields Park is one of the University of Nottingham buildings. I was lucky enough to do my undergrad there :)
Nottingham is absolutely amazing
grew up there so nice to see highfields and wollaton part again.. Thanks so much .. Im stuck in Isla Margarita in the caribbean now so I'm a long way away
Glad you enjoyed the video. Definitely a long way from Nottingham now and we hope you are safely out the way of Hurricane Beryl too! 🙏🏻
Awesome video guys! Great to see Nottinghams better side for once. Next time you are in Nottingham, you should go to an ice Hockey game at the arena! Always a great night! Also the Hockley/lace market area has some awesome bars.
If you thought it looked familiar Wollaton Hall was featured in Batman because they used it as Bruce Wayne's house.
Gotham really is a few miles away too!
There are bat signs on the paths if they used them.
@@dfnffc spot batman in a window in the hall sometimes too
Never been to Nottingham will have to give it a visit, the parks looked very good with lots to do and see.
I was there a few weeks ago and enjoyed the Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem. Prices were normal and they had a great selection of beer. I enjoyed my pint outside under the impressive English oaks. Food smelled good too. They also have a pretty cool canal museum and the downtown itself is nice to walk around. Definitely a small town though. Possibly a good base from which to explore the region. They do need to exploit the Robin Hood angle more.
Them donuts were huge 😁 shame you didn't pop into the trip to see the cursed galleon Jason would have found that very creepy😮 good vlog guys 🍻
Wait, what? There’s a cursed galleon in Nottingham? 😮 Now we have to go back (good excuse for another donut 😂)
I moved to Nottingham 4 years ago after straight up loving visiting over the years and I can safely say, you guys absolutely nailed it!
Oh yeah, The JJs are back at it again!
lovely video. thank you for sharing
Thank you for watching ☺️
Hi guys, another great video. Do you research what you want to do, or just find places to go when you are there. I obviously need to be more organised when visiting different towns. Look forward to the next video.
A bit of both really. We research places and things to do in the city and have a rough itinerary of the most important things we want to see or do but we are always flexible if we come across something unexpected and we like to walk wherever possible because that’s when we tend to stumble across hidden gems.
Nottingham is class.
I love Nottingham, I've been going there since the 90's when they had a terrific rock / indie club night at Nottingham Rock City every Saturday! That club night is long gone but I still get to Rock City for a gig as often as I can (best live venue in the country imho!) and it's always a pleasure to revisit the city itself, certainly an under-rated place.
That’s a bold claim, maybe one we will have to test some day!
@@JJExtrayou should!
Rock city isn't what it used to be so make sure you go on one of their 90's 2000s rock nights. It's just a taste of the venue it used to be
I love Nottingham, so much to see, lots of history. There are several lace museums, the shopping is fantastic plus in the Victoria centre there some caves you can go down into. People used to do several jobs down there like tannery
It is a great city to visit. We definitely have enough on our Nottingham itinerary to fill several more days there 😂
Could probably spend a fortnight there!
Great video and really interesting. Nottingham is now on my ... (vocabulary) itinerary of places to see this year.
🤣 it should definitely be added to everyone’s vocabulary 😂😂
The City of Caves is at the old Broadmarsh Centre not the Victoria Centre. It’s still open despite the demolition of Broadmarsh.
Glad to see access to the brewers yard happens again, seemed to be forever closed off and the park locked up too
As someone who went to the University of Nottingham, it's an okay city, it's very student orientated, it's dead in the summer, but it's a nice little city, also that big white building with the clocktower is part of the university, it was the original main university building, I used to live opposite the park in my second year! Also, look up the gnomes of wallaton park
Give us a shout of you come back to Nottingham. Would be good to meet up with fellow UA-camrs. We can show you more of Nottingham
Great to have my home town promoted, btw, Wollaton is pronounced Woolerton
Good to know, thank you ☺️
You kept walking right past places. You should've gone into Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem pub, because most of the rooms are caves under the castle. There's a very cool industrial museum in Wollaton Hall stables building. Can't believe you missed it. There's also the City of Caves tour (unsurprisingly in the City Centre), the Galleries of Justice, a number of cool pubs along the canal, Green's Mill - a working windmill and science centre not that far out of the centre, and a Hooters restaurant.
Nottinghamshire county of robin hood Sherwood forest best place to visit with family and dogs walking so beautiful ❤️
The building at Highfields is called The Trent Building. It's part of the University Of Nottingham.
One of my favourite places to visit.
Nottingham born and bred here, you NEED to come back. There's so so so so so much more to see. The galleries of justice, the pitcher and piano. The official cave tour under the city. The old salutation inn, Snenton Market. All of this is within the city boundary. Also there's a tunnel that was built too small for coaches, a medieval stairway currently being restored, and if you are interested a ghost tour of the city where you explore more caves. Realistically you need more than a day here to truly experience this wonderful city
Thanks for the recommendations 👍🏻
i was the boat hand there 22 years ago on the park. i loved it there and wollo park is the best place to be when it snows because of that hill
There are more caves you can go round, I'm from nottingham. Not sure if they are open though because they were in the broadmarsh shopping centre and that has been knocked down
They are still open.
They've improved the experience there quite a bit too, took some friends visiting and we all enjoyed it
Would you guys ever do a QnA? Would love to ask some questions for it
Possibly in the future but make sure to follow us on Instagram as we often do impromptu ones there.
How good is Nottingham for a visitor ?
After many years without any holidays, my wife and I (both in our 60s) had a short break to London in Nov 2022. We travelled by train from Newcastle and loved it, so much so, we have had several breaks since, to Edinburgh (twice) Glasgow, London again, Leeds, Manchester, York and Liverpool and we still have London and Glasgow again this year.
I am thinking of somewhere new to visit, for late in the year, or even early 2025, hence the question.
My wife likes the shops, while we both also enjoy seeing new places of interest, such as museums, cathedrals etc.
Birmingham, Chester, Cardiff, Sheffield, Aberdeen, Inverness are other possibilities.
Nottingham is great, there is lots to do from museums and caves to plenty of shopping. All the cities you have mentioned are great to explore, we do live Sheffield and have a new video from there coming next Sunday. It’s also not far between there and Nottingham.
The smaller historic towns and cities are great to visit, the bigger cities have changed so much, largely for the worse really. York and Whitby are ace. But do come to Nottingham too! Sure you'll be hapoy if you do!
Loved this, brought back memories from my (Matt’s) home city. Thank you.
Film fact Wollaton Hall was in one of the Batman films. Now over to Coventry 😂.
Glad it brought back some memories 😊😊
I visited just yesterday, it's pretty 😊
Great vid! Please do re-visit Notts, it’s got such a lot to offer, including arts and culture and beautiful architecture. The nightlife is pretty good too.
I really enjoyed your Coventry video, it’s inspired me to check out the ruins, climb the steeple and see the medieval buildings. Thanks!
Glad to hear you enjoyed this video and our Coventry one. We will definitely come back to Nottingham at some point. Any specific recommendations for us when we do?
@@JJExtra I’d recommend visiting the City of Caves tour, National Justice Museum, Contemporary art gallery, the Exchange for the art work, Hockley for independent shopping and food, Sneinton Market for independent shopping and food, a gig at Rock City if there’s one on, and walk around the Arboretum! A walk around the canal is nice too. Enjoy 😊
Nottinghamshire is full of history
You do USA trips, if you wanna see dinosaurs go to Alberta Canada and go to Tyrell museum in Alberta. Job done
wollerton hall? do you mean wollerton hall, pronounced wullerton? always fun to hear someone pronouncing the name of something they have no example to draw on :D
nottingham is definitely completely underrated, but there was more to it a few years ago before everything started closing down.
The castle isnt what you'd expect as the original castle was burned down in a tax revolt in the 1700s and rebuilt again in a more modern (for the time) form.
It’s always a challenge with the pronunciation, especially of places as regional variations are so huge. Thank you for letting us know of the correct way to say it! Sure we will be back in Nottingham in the future to explore more, let’s see if we can remember to get it right 😂
Nottingham lad myself been here 37 years its had good times however like most major cities in the UK today, it's got it bad side. Not to scare off tourist or potential people moving here, If visiting stay away from certain estates at night knife crime is a big problem here. On the upside first week in October there's The Goose Fair and All year round you have Wollaton Park Deer and all the outdoor goodness and Newstead Abbey plenty of other great places too.
I’m going to goose fair tomorrow
Love you guys positivity. Plenty of videos on here about how Britain has gone to the dogs - you just need the right attitude!
Agreed, it’s easy to see the bad in places. Sometimes just fresh eyes on a place and a change of perspective is all that’s needed.
DoughNotts doughnuts are amazing! 😋
Agreed 🙌🏼
I’d never think to go to Nottingham it looks nice though
It’s a beautiful city. I feel like we say this with most cities we visit in the U.K. but we really did only scratch the surface, our itinerary was much larger but we underestimated some of the places we went and how long we’d spend there 😂
Very green and easy to get about, it's a small city
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Nice video as usual. As a non-Brit it would be nice if you showed on a map where your going. I heard of a lot of these places but not sure where in UK they are. I alway have to look where the place is after watching your video.
Hi Mark, glad to hear you are enjoying the videos. Thank you for the feedback it’s really useful, we will try to figure out the best way we can incorporate your suggestion going forward 😊
Nottinghamshire is pretty much in the middle. Hence, it's part of the East Midlands. There's a lot to see. Sizewise, from driving into the most southern part of the city to the Northern part of the County would be about an hour and a half so it's not massive but lots to see.
can you do crawley as iv been hear now 4 years and cant find anything to do at all lol
Sounds like a challenge 😂
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Id love to visit Nottingham if it wasnt for that mean Sheriff everyone is always on about. Im not sure Britain is for me what with all the mean Sheriffs, torture dungeons, et al.
Oh don’t worry about him, Robin Hood took care of him a long time ago 😂
History isn't for you then lol
Nottingham has always been worth a visit, but the visitor experiences like the robin hood experience were so bad they were a comedy visit. Finally they have caught us up with decent facilities and experience. The caves have been improved too if that interests you
Well, the shoehorn bill bird between 18:22-18:25 is somewhat a living dinosaur
You haven’t properly visited notts if you haven’t gone to doughnuts, that location that you visited, my mate designed it by the way :)
We were told the very same thing the first time we visited and didn’t know it existed so we made sure we didn’t make the same mistake again. The interior was cool 👌🏻
Il live here !
Lived here for 18 years. I would not describe it as overrated at all. I’d describe it as under-average at best, compared to other UK cities.
Which UK cities do you think are best?
@@tiermacgirlvery true here. Many come to uni or short term and stay. The locals have a different opinion like anywhere
So you stayed 18 years somewhere you don't like? That's smart...
Point 1, Nottingham Castle is NOT a Castle its a ducal Mansion museum
They really need to work on their marketing, although we guess ‘castle’ is an easier sell 😂
There was a castle in this location but it was destroyed in the Civil War. The original castle was in place from 1068 to 1651.
Not watched yet,hope Harold Shipman and the Gunns aren't mentioned! 😮😂
Doughnotts are the best in the country!
Welcome to my city
Just here to point out that Nottingham castle is not a castle, it's a 17th century ducal manor built by the then Duke of Newastle and his family on the site of old Nottingham castle that came down during the English civil war after standing proud for 500 or so years.
So we discovered after our visit, we feel mis-sold 🤣
@@JJExtrait's a bit wnak but the rest makes up for it!
Very pretty
Nottingham is a shadow of its former self .
The "castle" is not worth a visit anymore ,Woolaton Hall is good tho .
The caves and Halls of justice are OK ..not many good shops left .
Places to eat ??? So so
People..top notch .
It's just like Dan Cruikshank was in the room " Naked women with their bangers out" 😊
Nottingham is nothing like it was 20 years ago
I really enjoy Nottingham, good value and lots to do. Only downsides are some dodgy Pakistani-dominated areas, and the council (if you live in the city proper) are useless
what is it like near the islamic centre, bit concerned as just paid a deposit on dorm accomodation near there if you can give any advice thx
Nottingham is sometimes good and bad
Dreadful place - couldn’t get out quick enough - be careful of inner city gangs
In a word NO!
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How on earth can you do a show about Nottingham without mentioning the amazing Nottingham Forest. Despicable, C'mon bruh get your shite together.
Nottingham who? 😂
@@JJExtra sheep shagger.
Nah its all about Basford United mate lol