Nottingham - The City of Caves in England, UK
- Nottingham - the City of Caves - in England, UK.
- The oldest recorded name for Nottingham is “Tigguo Cobauc,” which, in the pre-Roman ancient British language is thought to mean “Place of Caves.” The name is still appropriate today, there are over 800 caves, tunnels, and passages cut into the sandstone rock beneath the city, and more are discovered every year.
- Nottingham sits upon a soft sandstone ridge which can easily be dug with simple hand tools to create artificial cave dwellings.
- The caves were dug for many reasons: as workplaces, such as the medieval tannery; as homes, as secret passages and tunnels, as storerooms, brewhouses, and public houses; as prisons and dungeons; and in more recent history, as air raid shelters during the WW II.
