Harlequin is an area to the east of the

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The trad ...

village of Radcliffe on Trent in England, the two settlements separated by the A52 trunk road.
It is contained within the Radcliffe on Trent parish, with

Upper Saxondale Upper Saxondale is a residential area mainly in the parish of Radcliffe on Trent, in the Nottinghamshire borough of Rushcliffe. A section falls within the parish of Cropwell Butler. It lies in an upland area between the River Trent and the Vale of ...

to the east, and Radcliffe golf course and Dewberry Hill to the south. Until the start of the 20th century there were several nurseries within Harlequin, which could account for its name, one theory being visitors to nearby

Belvoir Castle Belvoir Castle ( ) is a faux historic castle and stately home in Leicestershire, England, situated west of the town of Grantham and northeast of Melton Mowbray. The Castle was first built immediately after the Norman Conquest of 1066 an ...

saw the banked colours of glass houses and nursery flowers and likened them to patterns of a

harlequin Harlequin (; it, Arlecchino ; lmo, Arlechin, Bergamasque dialect, Bergamasque pronunciation ) is the best-known of the ''zanni'' or comic servant characters from the Italian language, Italian ''commedia dell'arte'', associated with the city o ...

costume. Two brick works businesses existed in the area until around 1940, along with several clay pits providing material. The area contained little residential housing until 1940 onwards, much of the nurseries being sold to provide land. The area was notably once home to a Nottingham lace entrepreneur, George Mather.

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Parish council
* Villages in Nottinghamshire Radcliffe on Trent {{Nottinghamshire-geo-stub