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When you come to Nottingham, you will dive into the clubs and bars around the city's vibrant neighborhoods. But you may not know of another world interest deep underground.

Under the city nestles a complex network of over 200 artificial caves. In fact, Nottingham was originally known as "The Place of Caves', with records dating from that subterranean Back to 900AD. Between the 11th and 19th centuries, these traps are still used as a crude shelter until a law banning that practice.

Sandstone Sherwood in Nottingham is easy for people throughout the ages of hand-cut cellars for warehouses, factories and homes. Although there is a project underway to trace these hidden networks, it is estimated that up to 50 caves remain intact and 75 others were destroyed by the redevelopment of the city.

There are many signs of Nottingham real underground scene spread across downtown. The Broadmarsh shopping center hides the most important example, with a set of "City of Caves" hidden underneath. Nowadays, you can explore the corridors of the old and remember their history reconstructed using clues from artifacts found inside. Your journey begins at the medieval tannery, a legacy of how Nottingham leather trade back in 1250.

An exhibition of Drury Hill, site of some of the worst slums of the 19th century, recreating the appalling conditions endured by entire families live in single rooms without sanitation. You will also find caves to call the most recent - Second World War air raid shelters. Explore the underground existence of people seeking refuge in the barrage of 500 bombs fell directly on the city during the Blitz.

Wish step towards the castle caves longer male and secret passages of the medieval period. Mortimer's Hole is Nottingham's most famous structure underground, a vertical shaft of Castle Rock fall in tunnel leading to Brewhouse Yard. Local legend dates back to 1330, when a group of conspirators infiltrated the castle of Nottingham to capture the Earl of Mortimer, the lover of Queen Isabella.

The park has seven floors of steps and subways to the park tunnel, a hidden track for horse-drawn traffic is going to Derby Road. But the main use of the cave was that the beer cellars. A good example can be found at the Flying Horse Hotel, where three caverns are connected by a tunnel arch. Peek below Elizabethan Wollaton Hall and you still see its own wine cellar is adjacent to an old tunnel connecting to Wollaton Village - perhaps a transit route for goods.

An outstanding example of how the caves of Nottingham have been designed for this purpose is located on Derby Road, where you see one with a 20-footer for car makers' workshop.

To see the natural caves which may have inspired local carve their underground world, leading Creswell Crags near Sherwood Forest. This historic limestone gorge hide evidence of life during the ice age, Great Britain as examples of rock art symbols and 120,000 years of woolly mammoths, reindeer, buffalo and rhino.

It was nice to Nottingham without a visit to the cave, your visit will have barely scratched the surface.