Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire, administrative, geographic, and historic county of the East Midlands of England, bordered by the geographic counties of Leicestershire, Derbyshire, and Lincolnshire, and by the metropolitan county of South Yorkshire. The administrative, geographic, and historic counties cover slightly different areas. The administrative county has seven districts: Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Mansfield, Newark and Sherwood, and the boroughs of Broxtowe, Gedling, and Rushcliffe. The geographic county encompasses these areas and the city of Nottingham, administratively a separate unitary authority. The historic county of Nottinghamshire is nearly coterminous with the geographic county, but it includes three additional small areas: the area just west of Bawtry and the parish of Finningley, both administratively part of the metropolitan borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, and an area east of Wymeswold in the Charnwood borough of the administrative county of Leicestershire.