House surveys in Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire combines a big Victorian city with suburbs, former coalfield towns and a rural east. Nottingham itself has red-brick terraces, grand villas in The Park, extensive 1930s suburbs and post-war estates such as Clifton. To the north and west, Mansfield, Hucknall, Sutton-in-Ashfield and Worksop sit on the Nottinghamshire coalfield, while Newark, Southwell and Retford are older market towns in the Trent and Idle valleys. Survey themes include coal mining legacy, Mercia Mudstone clay that can shrink and swell, sandstone caves beneath parts of Nottingham, and flood risk along the Trent, which is one of the largest river flood plains in the Midlands.