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Historic house and museum
Wollaton Hall
Elizabethan house of the 1580s on a hill in Wollaton Park, now Nottingham's Natural History Museum.
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Wollaton, Lenton and University Park: things to do
Places worth your time in Wollaton, Lenton and University Park
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Things to do in Wollaton, Lenton and University Park
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
Deer park
Wollaton Park
Grade II listed 500-acre park around the hall, with herds of red and fallow deer and gardens.
Museum
Nottingham Industrial Museum
Volunteer-run museum in the 17th-century stable block of Wollaton Hall, with textile machinery, transport and mining displays.
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Park
Highfields Park
Grade II listed park of 121 acres beside University Park, with a boating lake.
Arts centre
Lakeside Arts
The University of Nottingham's public arts centre on University Park, with the Djanogly Theatre and a café.
Sculpture
Aspire
60-metre red and orange steel sculpture on the university's Jubilee Campus.
Church
St Leonard's Church, Wollaton
Grade II* listed parish church from the 13th century with monuments to the Willoughby family of Wollaton Hall.
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Ruin
Lenton Priory
Remains of a Cluniac priory founded around 1102-08 by William Peverel, in Lenton.
Historic building
Albert Ball Memorial Homes
Grade II* listed homes built in 1922 for families of servicemen, designed to evoke an aircraft.
Church
St Mary's Church, Wollaton Park
Grade II listed Church of England parish church in the Wollaton Park suburb.
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Lace Market, Hockley and Sneinton
Lace warehouses, courtrooms and caves, and Hockley's bars and independent shops
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- Wollaton, Lenton and University Park (area photo): Harry Mitchell, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Wollaton Hall: Harry Mitchell, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Wollaton Park: NotFromUtrecht, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Nottingham Industrial Museum: ClemRutter, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Highfields Park: Photograph by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent. (www.clemrutter.net)., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Aspire: mattbuck (category), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- St Leonard's Church, Wollaton: Enchufla Con Clave, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- St Mary's Church, Wollaton Park: Andrewrabbott (talk), Public domain, source
- Castle and Old Market Square: Cosmicutencil, CC0, source
- Lace Market, Hockley and Sneinton: Alan Murray-Rust, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licences shown. All photo credits
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