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Nottingham Place is a street in the City of Westminster that runs from Marylebone Road in the north to Paddington Street in the south. The street was named after the Harley family estates in Nottinghamshire. Former residents include the social reformer Octavia Hill, who also had a school there, stained glass artist Charles Eamer Kempe, the London Bible College,and The Kashmir Klub. Current residents include the High Commission of the Maldives and the Latvian embassy. Origins and location Nottingham Place is located in the City of Westminster. It runs from Marylebone Road in the north to Paddington Street in the south, and is crossed by Nottingham Street. It was named after the Harley family estates in Nottinghamshire. History From 1860, the social reformer Octavia Hill lived in the street, and ran a school there. With the financial assistance of John Ruskin, Hill had planned to buy a house there with a garden for a children's playground and to let the building as tenements, and ...
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Nottingham ( , locally ) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robin Hood and to the lace-making, bicycle and tobacco industries. The city is also the county town of Nottinghamshire and the settlement was granted its city charter in 1897, as part of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Nottingham is a tourist destination; in 2018, the city received the second-highest number of overnight visitors in the Midlands and the highest number in the East Midlands. In 2020, Nottingham had an estimated population of 330,000. The wider conurbation, which includes many of the city's suburbs, has a population of 768,638. It is the largest urban area in the East Midlands and the second-largest in the Midlands. Its Functional Urban Area, the largest in the East Midlands, has a population of 919,484. The population ...
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