The Peak District National Park . © Han3617
Lose yourself in the natural beauty of the Peak District, or discover Britan's smallest county – Rutland. See Bosworth Field, the battleground on which Richard III lost his crown, and Britain's biggest Saxon church at Brixworth, Northamptonshire. Visit Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. one of our stateliest stately homes whose treasures have been collected by the Dukes of Devonshire over five centuries, and take a tour of Britain's first purpose-built workhouse at Southwell, Nottinghamshire, almost unchanged since the 19th century... Gird your loins for a visit to the D. H. Lawrence museum at Eastwood, and make a literary pilgrimage to the family home of the Sitwell Family, Rensihaw Hall in Derbyshire... Follow in Robin Hood's footprints through Sherwood Forest and then have a drink at England's oldest pub, The Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham...
Speaking of Nottingham, if you're there don't miss the Galleries of Justice, where you can take an atmospheric tour through three centuries of crime and punishment, experience a trial in an original Victorian courtroom, and see unique historic artefacts from prisons around England. That'll keep you on the straight and narrow!
The East Midlands is also big eating country, with traditional delights from the rich, almondy Bakewell tart of Derbyshire to the eponymous pork pie of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire.
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'Robin Hood's Tree' in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, looks big enough to have accommodated even Friar Tuck in its branches!