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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Transport</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Transport-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Transport subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Transport-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Road" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Road"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Road</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Road-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Airports" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Airports"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Airports</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Airports-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Railway" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Railway"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Railway</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Railway-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Water" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Water"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Water</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Water-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Trams" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Trams"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.5</span> <span>Trams</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Trams-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Transport_policy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Transport_policy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.6</span> <span>Transport policy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Transport_policy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-History" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#History"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>History</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-History-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle History subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-History-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Romans" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Romans"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Romans</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Romans-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Anglo-Saxons_and_the_Danelaw" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Anglo-Saxons_and_the_Danelaw"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Anglo-Saxons and the Danelaw</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Anglo-Saxons_and_the_Danelaw-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Civil_War" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Civil_War"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3</span> <span>Civil War</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Civil_War-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Scientific_heritage" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Scientific_heritage"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.4</span> <span>Scientific heritage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Scientific_heritage-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Culture_and_identity" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Culture_and_identity"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.5</span> <span>Culture and identity</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Culture_and_identity-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Industrial_heritage" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Industrial_heritage"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.6</span> <span>Industrial heritage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Industrial_heritage-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Second_World_War" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Second_World_War"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.7</span> <span>Second World War</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Second_World_War-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Regional_governance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Regional_governance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.8</span> <span>Regional governance</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Regional_governance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Demographics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Demographics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Demographics</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Demographics-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Demographics subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Demographics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Ethnicity" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ethnicity"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Ethnicity</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ethnicity-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2</span> <span>Religion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Social_deprivation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Social_deprivation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.3</span> <span>Social deprivation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Social_deprivation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Elections" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Elections"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Elections</span> </div> </a> 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id="toc-Textiles_and_clothing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Textiles_and_clothing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.3</span> <span>Textiles and clothing</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Textiles_and_clothing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Retail" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Retail"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.4</span> <span>Retail</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Retail-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Food_processing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Food_processing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.5</span> <span>Food processing</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Food_processing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Health_care" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Health_care"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.6</span> <span>Health care</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Health_care-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-High_technology" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#High_technology"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.7</span> <span>High technology</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-High_technology-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Finance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Finance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.8</span> <span>Finance</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Finance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rural" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rural"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.9</span> <span>Rural</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rural-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Entertainment" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Entertainment"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.10</span> <span>Entertainment</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Entertainment-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Education" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Education"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Education</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Education-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Education subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Education-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Secondary_education" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Secondary_education"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.1</span> <span>Secondary education</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Secondary_education-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Top_twenty_state_schools_in_the_East_Midlands_(2015_A-level_results)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Top_twenty_state_schools_in_the_East_Midlands_(2015_A-level_results)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.2</span> <span>Top twenty state schools in the East Midlands (2015 A-level results)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Top_twenty_state_schools_in_the_East_Midlands_(2015_A-level_results)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Universities" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Universities"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11.3</span> <span>Universities</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Universities-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sports" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sports"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>Sports</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Sports-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Sports subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Sports-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Football" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Football"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.1</span> <span>Football</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Football-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rugby_Union" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rugby_Union"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.2</span> <span>Rugby Union</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rugby_Union-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cricket" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cricket"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.3</span> <span>Cricket</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cricket-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Basketball" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Basketball"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.4</span> <span>Basketball</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Basketball-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Motor_sports" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlands_de_l%27Este" title="Midlands de l'Este – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Midlands de l'Este" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Midlands" title="East Midlands – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="East Midlands" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Midlands" title="Tang Midlands – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Tang Midlands" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%82_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81" title="Ийст Мидландс – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Ийст Мидландс" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reter_Midlands" title="Reter Midlands – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Reter Midlands" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlands_de_l%27Est" title="Midlands de l'Est – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Midlands de l'Est" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Midlands" title="East Midlands – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="East Midlands" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwyrain_Canolbarth_Lloegr" title="Dwyrain Canolbarth Lloegr – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Dwyrain Canolbarth Lloegr" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Midlands" title="East Midlands – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="East Midlands" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Midlands" title="East Midlands – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="East Midlands" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regi%C3%B3n_de_las_Tierras_Medias_Orientales" title="Región de las Tierras Medias Orientales – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Región de las Tierras Medias Orientales" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Midlands" title="East Midlands – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="East Midlands" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekialdeko_Midlands" title="Ekialdeko Midlands – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Ekialdeko Midlands" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B2_%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%82%DB%8C" title="میدلندز شرقی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="میدلندز شرقی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlands_de_l%27Est" title="Midlands de l'Est – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Midlands de l'Est" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/East-Midlannen" title="East-Midlannen – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="East-Midlannen" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_L%C3%A1r-R%C3%A9igi%C3%BAn_Thoir" title="An Lár-Réigiún Thoir – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="An Lár-Réigiún Thoir" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlands_do_Leste" title="Midlands do Leste – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Midlands do Leste" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BBng_Midlands" title="Tûng Midlands – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Tûng Midlands" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8%EB%AF%B8%EB%93%A4%EB%9E%9C%EC%A6%88" title="이스트미들랜즈 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="이스트미들랜즈" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%88%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="ईस्ट मिडलैंड्स – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="ईस्ट मिडलैंड्स" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isto%C4%8Dni_Midlands" title="Istočni Midlands – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Istočni Midlands" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlands_Timur" title="Midlands Timur – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Midlands Timur" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austur-Mi%C3%B0h%C3%A9ru%C3%B0" title="Austur-Miðhéruð – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Austur-Miðhéruð" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlands_Orientali" title="Midlands Orientali – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Midlands Orientali" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%96%D7%A8%D7%97_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%93%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A1" title="מזרח המידלנדס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מזרח המידלנדס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlands_Mashariki" title="Midlands Mashariki – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Midlands Mashariki" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrummidlenda" title="Austrummidlenda – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Austrummidlenda" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryt%C5%B3_Midlandsas" title="Rytų Midlandsas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Rytų Midlandsas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelet-K%C3%B6z%C3%A9p-Anglia" title="Kelet-Közép-Anglia – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Kelet-Közép-Anglia" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81" title="Источен Мидлендс – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Источен Мидлендс" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="पूर्व मिडलंड्स – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="पूर्व मिडलंड्स" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mwl mw-list-item"><a href="https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlands_Ourientales" title="Midlands Ourientales – Mirandese" lang="mwl" hreflang="mwl" data-title="Midlands Ourientales" data-language-autonym="Mirandés" data-language-local-name="Mirandese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Mirandés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Midlands" title="East Midlands – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="East Midlands" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA" title="イースト・ミッドランズ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="イースト・ミッドランズ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uast_Madlunen" title="Uast Madlunen – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Uast Madlunen" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98st-Midlands" title="Øst-Midlands – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Øst-Midlands" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aust-Midlands" title="Aust-Midlands – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Aust-Midlands" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Midlands" title="East Midlands – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="East Midlands" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlands_Orientais" title="Midlands Orientais – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Midlands Orientais" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Midlands" title="East Midlands – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="East Midlands" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti_chawpipachakuna_suyu" title="Anti chawpipachakuna suyu – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Anti chawpipachakuna suyu" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4" title="Восточный Мидленд – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Восточный Мидленд" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Midlands" title="East Midlands – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="East Midlands" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Midlands" title="East Midlands – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="East Midlands" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81" title="Источни Мидландс – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Источни Мидландс" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isto%C4%8Dni_Midlands" title="Istočni Midlands – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Istočni Midlands" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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.infobox-above{font-size:125%;line-height:1.3em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-subheader{background-color:#cddeff;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-native{font-weight:normal;padding-top:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-other-name{font-size:78%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-official{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption{padding:0.3em 0 0 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption-link{padding:0.2em 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-nickname{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-fn{font-weight:normal;display:inline}</style><table class="infobox ib-settlement vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><div class="fn org">East Midlands</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="category"><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_England" title="Regions of England">Region</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style 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data-file-height="1302" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:126px;max-width:126px"><div style="height:73px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mam_Tor_Castleton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Mam_Tor_Castleton.jpg/124px-Mam_Tor_Castleton.jpg" decoding="async" width="124" height="74" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Mam_Tor_Castleton.jpg/186px-Mam_Tor_Castleton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Mam_Tor_Castleton.jpg/248px-Mam_Tor_Castleton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3900" data-file-height="2324" /></a></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ib-settlement-caption">From top, left to right: <a href="/wiki/Northampton" title="Northampton">Northampton</a>; <a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a>; <a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a>; <a href="/wiki/Derby,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Derby, England">Derby</a>; <a href="/wiki/Sherwood_Forest" title="Sherwood Forest">Sherwood Forest</a>; <a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_England" title="Lincoln, England">Lincoln</a> <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Cathedral" title="Lincoln Cathedral">Cathedral</a>; <a href="/wiki/Rutland_Water" title="Rutland Water">Rutland Water</a>; <a href="/wiki/Peak_District" title="Peak District">Peak District</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:East_Midlands_in_England.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="East Midlands shown within England"><img alt="East Midlands shown within England" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/East_Midlands_in_England.svg/250px-East_Midlands_in_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="304" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/East_Midlands_in_England.svg/375px-East_Midlands_in_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/East_Midlands_in_England.svg/500px-East_Midlands_in_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="816" data-file-height="991" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">East Midlands shown within <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=East_Midlands&params=52.98_N_0.75_W_region:GB-ENG_type:adm1st"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">52°59′N</span> <span class="longitude">0°45′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">52.98°N 0.75°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">52.98; -0.75</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_state" title="Sovereign state">Sovereign state</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Government_Offices_for_the_English_regions" title="Government Offices for the English regions">GO</a> established</th><td class="infobox-data">1994</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Regional_development_agency" title="Regional development agency">RDA</a> established</th><td class="infobox-data">1998</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">GO abolished</th><td class="infobox-data">2011</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">RDA abolished</th><td class="infobox-data">31 March 2012</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Subdivisions</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>6 <a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">counties</a></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <a href="/wiki/Leicestershire" title="Leicestershire">Leicestershire</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a> (part) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire" title="Nottinghamshire">Nottinghamshire</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <a href="/wiki/Rutland" title="Rutland">Rutland</a> </li></ul> </div> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>1 <a href="/wiki/Combined_authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Combined authority">combined authority</a></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Combined_County_Authority" title="East Midlands Combined County Authority">East Midlands</a> </li></ul> </div> <div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>35 <a href="/wiki/Districts_of_England" title="Districts of England">districts</a></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 6 <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authorities_of_England" title="Unitary authorities of England">unitary</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 29 <a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_district" title="Non-metropolitan district">non-metropolitan</a> in 4 <a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_county" title="Non-metropolitan county">non-metropolitan counties</a> </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-Leaders'_board_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leaders'_board-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Local_authority_leaders%27_board" title="Local authority leaders' board">Local authority leaders' board</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Body</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Councils" title="East Midlands Councils">East Midlands Councils</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">MPs</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_constituencies_in_the_East_Midlands" title="Parliamentary constituencies in the East Midlands">46 MPs</a> (of 650)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-ONS_Standard_Area_Measurement_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ONS_Standard_Area_Measurement-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">6,105 sq mi (15,811 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">6,032 sq mi (15,624 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_England#List_of_regions" title="Regions of England">4th</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(2022)<sup id="cite_ref-popstats_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-popstats-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">4,934,939</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_England#List_of_regions" title="Regions of England">8th</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">820/sq mi (316/km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Ethnicity <span style="font-weight:normal;">(<a href="/wiki/2021_United_Kingdom_census" title="2021 United Kingdom census">2021</a>)</span><div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-2021_Nomis_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2021_Nomis-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Ethnic groups in the United Kingdom">Ethnic groups</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>List</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 85.7% <a href="/wiki/White_people_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="White people in the United Kingdom">White</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 8.0% <a href="/wiki/British_Asians" title="British Asians">Asian</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 2.7% <a href="/wiki/Black_British_people" title="Black British people">Black</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 2.4% <a href="/wiki/Mixed_(United_Kingdom_ethnicity_category)" title="Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)">Mixed</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1.3% <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Ethnic groups in the United Kingdom">other</a> </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Religion <span style="font-weight:normal;">(2021)</span><div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-2021_Nomis_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2021_Nomis-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Religion_in_England" title="Religion in England">Religion</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>List</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 45.4% <a href="/wiki/Religion_in_England#Christianity" title="Religion in England">Christianity</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 40.0% <a href="/wiki/Irreligion_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Irreligion in the United Kingdom">no religion</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 4.3% <a href="/wiki/Islam_in_England" title="Islam in England">Islam</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 2.5% <a href="/wiki/Hinduism_in_England" title="Hinduism in England">Hinduism</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 1.1% <a href="/wiki/Sikhism_in_England" title="Sikhism in England">Sikhism</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 0.3% <a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_England" title="Buddhism in England">Buddhism</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 0.1% <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_England" title="History of the Jews in England">Judaism</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 0.5% <a href="/wiki/Religion_in_England" title="Religion in England">other</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> 5.9% not stated </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time 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Prime Minister</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Angela_Rayner" title="Angela Rayner">Angela Rayner</a> (<a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">L</a>)</li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:left; background:lavender;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Legislative</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/King-in-Parliament" title="King-in-Parliament">King-in-Parliament</a></b>: <a href="/wiki/Charles_III" title="Charles III">Charles III</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Speaker" title="Lord Speaker">Lord Speaker</a>: <a href="/wiki/John_McFall,_Baron_McFall_of_Alcluith" title="John McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith">The Lord McFall of Alcluith</a></li></ul></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reform_of_the_House_of_Lords" title="Reform of the House of Lords">Reform of the House of Lords</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_House_of_Commons_(United_Kingdom)" title="Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)">Speaker</a>: <a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Hoyle" title="Lindsay Hoyle">Sir Lindsay Hoyle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_MPs_for_constituencies_in_England_(2024%E2%80%93present)" title="List of MPs for constituencies in England (2024–present)">MPs for England Constituencies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regional_Affairs_Committee" title="Regional Affairs Committee">Regional Affairs Committee</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed 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United Kingdom general election">1841</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1847_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1847 United Kingdom general election">1847</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1852_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1852 United Kingdom general election">1852</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1857_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1857 United Kingdom general election">1857</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1859_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1859 United Kingdom general election">1859</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1865_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1865 United Kingdom general election">1865</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1868 United Kingdom general election">1868</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1874_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1874 United Kingdom general election">1874</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1880_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1880 United Kingdom general election">1880</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1885_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1885 United Kingdom general election">1885</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1886_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1886 United Kingdom general election">1886</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1892_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1892 United Kingdom general election">1892</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1895_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1895 United Kingdom general election">1895</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1900_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1900 United Kingdom general election">1900</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1906_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1906 United Kingdom general election">1906</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="January 1910 United Kingdom general election">1910 (Jan)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="December 1910 United Kingdom general election">1910 (Dec)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1918_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1918 United Kingdom general election">1918</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1922_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1922 United Kingdom general election">1922</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1923_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1923 United Kingdom general election">1923</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1924_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1924 United Kingdom general election">1924</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1929 United Kingdom general election">1929</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1931 United Kingdom general election">1931</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1935_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1935 United Kingdom general election">1935</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1945 United Kingdom general election">1945</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1951 United Kingdom general election">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1955 United Kingdom general election">1955</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1959 United Kingdom general election">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1964 United Kingdom general election">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1966 United Kingdom general election">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1970 United Kingdom general election">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">1974 (Feb)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="October 1974 United Kingdom general election">1974 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href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_England" title="2010 United Kingdom general election in England">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_England" title="2015 United Kingdom general election in England">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_England" title="2017 United Kingdom general election in England">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_England" title="2019 United Kingdom general election in England">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_England" title="2024 United Kingdom general election in England">2024</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:left; background:lavender;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Judiciary_of_England_and_Wales" title="Judiciary of England and 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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a 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It comprises the eastern half of the area traditionally known as the <a href="/wiki/Midlands" title="Midlands">Midlands</a>. It consists of <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leicestershire" title="Leicestershire">Leicestershire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a> (except for <a href="/wiki/North_Lincolnshire" title="North Lincolnshire">North Lincolnshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/North_East_Lincolnshire" title="North East Lincolnshire">North East Lincolnshire</a>), <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire" title="Nottinghamshire">Nottinghamshire</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rutland" title="Rutland">Rutland</a>. The region has a land area of 15,624 km<sup>2</sup> (6,032 sq mi), with an estimated population 4,934,939 in 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-popstats_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-popstats-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With a <a href="/wiki/Global_city#GaWC_study" title="Global city">sufficiency-level world city</a> ranking, Nottingham is the only settlement in the region to be classified by the <a href="/wiki/Globalization_and_World_Cities_Research_Network" title="Globalization and World Cities Research Network">Globalization and World Cities Research Network</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The region is primarily served by <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Airport" title="East Midlands Airport">East Midlands Airport</a>, which lies between Derby, Leicester and Nottingham. The main cities in the region are <a href="/wiki/Derby,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Derby, England">Derby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_England" title="Lincoln, England">Lincoln</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a>. The largest towns in these counties are <a href="/wiki/Boston,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston, England">Boston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chesterfield,_Derbyshire" title="Chesterfield, Derbyshire">Chesterfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coalville,_Leicestershire" class="mw-redirect" title="Coalville, Leicestershire">Coalville</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corby" title="Corby">Corby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Glossop" title="Glossop">Glossop</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grantham" title="Grantham">Grantham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kettering" title="Kettering">Kettering</a>, <a href="/wiki/Loughborough" title="Loughborough">Loughborough</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northampton" title="Northampton">Northampton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mansfield,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Mansfield, England">Mansfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oakham" title="Oakham">Oakham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swadlincote" title="Swadlincote">Swadlincote</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough" title="Wellingborough">Wellingborough</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Physical_features">Physical features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Physical features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The highest point at 636 m (2,087 ft) is <a href="/wiki/Kinder_Scout" title="Kinder Scout">Kinder Scout</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Peak_District" title="Peak District">Peak District</a> of the southern <a href="/wiki/Pennines" title="Pennines">Pennines</a> in northwest <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a> near <a href="/wiki/Glossop" title="Glossop">Glossop</a>. Other hilly areas of 95 to 280 m (312 to 919 ft) in altitude, together with lakes and reservoirs, rise in and around the <a href="/wiki/Charnwood_Forest" title="Charnwood Forest">Charnwood Forest</a> north of <a href="/wiki/Peterborough" title="Peterborough">Peterborough</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a>, and in the <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_Wolds" title="Lincolnshire Wolds">Lincolnshire Wolds</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The region's major rivers, the <a href="/wiki/River_Nene" title="River Nene">Nene</a>, the <a href="/wiki/River_Soar" title="River Soar">Soar</a>, the <a href="/wiki/River_Trent" title="River Trent">Trent</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/River_Welland" title="River Welland">Welland</a>, flow in a northeasterly direction towards the <a href="/wiki/Humber" title="Humber">Humber</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Wash" title="The Wash">the Wash</a>. The <a href="/wiki/River_Derwent,_Derbyshire" title="River Derwent, Derbyshire">Derwent</a>, conversely, rises in the High Peak before flowing south to join the Trent some 2 miles (3 km) before its conflux with the Soar,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and the <a href="/wiki/River_Witham" title="River Witham">Witham</a> flows in an arch, first north to <a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_England" title="Lincoln, England">Lincoln</a> before heading south to the Wash. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Forbidding_Office_Building_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1363225.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Forbidding_Office_Building_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1363225.jpg/220px-Forbidding_Office_Building_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1363225.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Forbidding_Office_Building_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1363225.jpg/330px-Forbidding_Office_Building_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1363225.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Forbidding_Office_Building_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1363225.jpg/440px-Forbidding_Office_Building_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1363225.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, next to the Trent, and Waitrose, in Newark-on-Trent</figcaption></figure> <p>The centre of the East Midlands area lies roughly between <a href="/wiki/Bingham,_Nottinghamshire" title="Bingham, Nottinghamshire">Bingham</a>, Nottinghamshire and <a href="/wiki/Bottesford,_Leicestershire" title="Bottesford, Leicestershire">Bottesford</a>, Leicestershire. The <a href="/wiki/Centre_points_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Centre points of the United Kingdom">geographical centre of England</a> lies in <a href="/wiki/Higham_on_the_Hill" title="Higham on the Hill">Higham on the Hill</a> in west <a href="/wiki/Leicestershire" title="Leicestershire">Leicestershire</a>, close to the boundary between the Leicestershire and Warwickshire. Some 88 per cent of the land is rural in character, although agriculture accounts for less than three per cent of the region's jobs.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Church Flatts Farm in <a href="/wiki/Coton_in_the_Elms" title="Coton in the Elms">Coton in the Elms</a>, South Derbyshire, is the furthest place from the sea in the UK (70 miles; 110 km). In April 1936 the first <a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey" title="Ordnance Survey">Ordnance Survey</a> <a href="/wiki/Triangulation_station" title="Triangulation station">trig point</a> was sited at <a href="/wiki/Cold_Ashby" title="Cold Ashby">Cold Ashby</a> in <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Wildlife_Trusts" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts">Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Wildlife_Trusts" title="The Wildlife Trusts">The Wildlife Trusts</a> are based next to the River Trent and Newark Castle railway station. The <a href="/wiki/National_Centre_for_Earth_Observation" title="National Centre for Earth Observation">National Centre for Earth Observation</a> is at the University of Leicester. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Geology">Geology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Geology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The region is home to large quantities of <a href="/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone">limestone</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Oil_Province" title="East Midlands Oil Province">East Midlands Oil Province</a>. <a href="/wiki/Charnwood_Forest" title="Charnwood Forest">Charnwood Forest</a> is noted for its abundant levels of volcanic rock, estimated to be approximately 600 million years old.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A quarter of the UK's <a href="/wiki/Cement" title="Cement">cement</a> is manufactured in the region, at three sites in <a href="/wiki/Hope,_Derbyshire" title="Hope, Derbyshire">Hope</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tunstead,_Derbyshire" title="Tunstead, Derbyshire">Tunstead</a> in Derbyshire, and <a href="/wiki/Ketton_Cement_Works" title="Ketton Cement Works">Ketton Cement Works</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rutland" title="Rutland">Rutland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of the <a href="/wiki/Construction_aggregate" title="Construction aggregate">aggregates</a> produced in the region, 25 per cent are from Derbyshire and four per cent from Leicestershire. Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire each produce around 30 per cent of the region's <a href="/wiki/Sand_mining" title="Sand mining">sand</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gravel_pit" title="Gravel pit">gravel</a> output.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Barwell" title="Barwell">Barwell</a> in Leicestershire was the site of Britain's largest <a href="/wiki/Meteorite" title="Meteorite">meteorite</a> (7 kg; 15 lb) on 24 December 1965. The <a href="/wiki/2008_Lincolnshire_earthquake" class="mw-redirect" title="2008 Lincolnshire earthquake">2008 Lincolnshire earthquake</a> was 5.2 in <a href="/wiki/Moment_magnitude" class="mw-redirect" title="Moment magnitude">magnitude</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Environment">Environment</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Environment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Areas of the East Midlands designated by the East Midlands Biodiversity Partnership as Biodiversity Conservation Areas include:<sup id="cite_ref-Biodiversity_Partnerships_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Biodiversity_Partnerships-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charnwood_Forest" title="Charnwood Forest">Charnwood Forest</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Coversand_Heaths&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Coversand Heaths (page does not exist)">Coversand Heaths</a></li> <li>Derbyshire Peak Fringe and Lower Derwent</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humberhead_Levels" title="Humberhead Levels">Humberhead Levels</a></li> <li>Leighland Forest</li> <li>The Lincolnshire Limewoods and Heaths</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_coast" title="Lincolnshire coast">Lincolnshire coast</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Peak_District" title="Peak District">Peak District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockingham_Forest" title="Rockingham Forest">Rockingham Forest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherwood_Forest" title="Sherwood Forest">Sherwood Forest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutland" title="Rutland">Rutland</a>, SW <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a> and N <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Wash" title="The Wash">The Wash</a></li></ul> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Image-Major_Oak_in_Sherwood_Forest_in_2006_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Image-Major_Oak_in_Sherwood_Forest_in_2006_%282%29.jpg/220px-Image-Major_Oak_in_Sherwood_Forest_in_2006_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Image-Major_Oak_in_Sherwood_Forest_in_2006_%282%29.jpg/330px-Image-Major_Oak_in_Sherwood_Forest_in_2006_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Image-Major_Oak_in_Sherwood_Forest_in_2006_%282%29.jpg/440px-Image-Major_Oak_in_Sherwood_Forest_in_2006_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="683" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Major_Oak" title="Major Oak">Major Oak</a> in Sherwood Forest; a traditional landmark of the north-east Midlands.</figcaption></figure> <p>Areas of the East Midlands designated by the East Midlands Biodiversity Partnership as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Biodiversity_Enhancement_Areas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Biodiversity Enhancement Areas (page does not exist)">Biodiversity Enhancement Areas</a> include:<sup id="cite_ref-Biodiversity_Partnerships_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Biodiversity_Partnerships-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Coalfields" class="mw-redirect" title="Coalfields">Coalfields</a></li> <li>The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Daventry_Grasslands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Daventry Grasslands (page does not exist)">Daventry Grasslands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Fens" title="The Fens">The Fens</a></li> <li>The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lincolnshire_Coastal_Grazing_Marshes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lincolnshire Coastal Grazing Marshes (page does not exist)">Lincolnshire Coastal Grazing Marshes</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_Wolds" title="Lincolnshire Wolds">Lincolnshire Wolds</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/National_Forest,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="National Forest, England">National Forest</a></li> <li>The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yardley-Whittlewood_Ridge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yardley-Whittlewood Ridge (page does not exist)">Yardley-Whittlewood Ridge</a></li></ul> <p>Two of the nationally designated <a href="/wiki/Area_of_Outstanding_Natural_Beauty" title="Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty">Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty</a> are:<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Peak_District" title="Peak District">Peak District</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_Wolds" title="Lincolnshire Wolds">Lincolnshire Wolds</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Forestry">Forestry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Forestry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several towns in the southern part of the region, including Market Harborough, Desborough, Rothwell, Corby, Kettering, Thrapston, Oundle and Stamford, lie within the boundaries of what was once <a href="/wiki/Rockingham_Forest" title="Rockingham Forest">Rockingham Forest</a> – designated a <a href="/wiki/Royal_forest" title="Royal forest">royal forest</a> by <a href="/wiki/William_the_Conqueror" title="William the Conqueror">William the Conqueror</a> and was long hunted by English kings and queens.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/The_National_Forest_(England)" title="The National Forest (England)">National Forest</a> is an environmental project in central England run by The National Forest Company. Areas of north Leicestershire, south Derbyshire and south-east Staffordshire covering around 200 square miles (520 km<sup>2</sup>; 52,000 ha) are being planted in an attempt to blend ancient woodland with new plantings. It stretches from the western outskirts of Leicester in the east to Burton upon Trent in the west, and is planned to link the ancient forests of Needwood and Charnwood.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Sherwood_Forest" title="Sherwood Forest">Sherwood Forest</a> in Nottinghamshire attracts many visitors, and is perhaps best known for its ties with the legend of <a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood" title="Robin Hood">Robin Hood</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Regional financial funding decisions for the East Midlands are taken by <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Councils" title="East Midlands Councils">East Midlands Councils</a>, based in <a href="/wiki/Melton_Mowbray" title="Melton Mowbray">Melton Mowbray</a>. East Midlands Councils is an unelected body made up of representatives of local government in the region. The defunct <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Development_Agency" title="East Midlands Development Agency">East Midlands Development Agency</a> was headquartered next to the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>'s East Midlands office in Nottingham and made financial decisions regarding economic development in the region. Since the <a href="/wiki/Cameron-Clegg_coalition" class="mw-redirect" title="Cameron-Clegg coalition">Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government</a> launched its austerity programme after the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010 general election</a>, regional bodies such as those have been devolved to smaller groups now on a county level. As a region today, there is no overriding body with significant financial or planning powers for the East Midlands. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Combined_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="East Midlands Combined Authority">East Midlands Combined Authority</a> will be established in 2024. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Urban_areas">Urban areas</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Urban areas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The East Midlands region contains many urban areas which include: </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Greater_Nottingham" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater Nottingham">Nottingham Urban Area</a></b> (includes the Derbyshire towns of <a href="/wiki/Alfreton" title="Alfreton">Alfreton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belper" title="Belper">Belper</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heanor" title="Heanor">Heanor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ilkeston" title="Ilkeston">Ilkeston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Long_Eaton" title="Long Eaton">Long Eaton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ripley,_Derbyshire" title="Ripley, Derbyshire">Ripley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sandiacre" title="Sandiacre">Sandiacre</a> as well as the city of <a href="/wiki/Derby" title="Derby">Derby</a>. It also covers Nottingham, Mansfield, Arnold, Beeston, Bulwell, Carlton, Hucknall and West Bridgford. This means it spans parts of both Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.) (Pop: 729,977)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Leicester_Urban_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Leicester Urban Area">Leicester Urban Area</a></b> (Pop: 650,000)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Derby_Built-up_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Derby Built-up Area">Derby Urban Area</a></b> (Pop: 270,468)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Mansfield_Urban_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Mansfield Urban Area">Mansfield Urban Area</a></b> (Spanning Mansfield, <a href="/wiki/Sutton-in-Ashfield" title="Sutton-in-Ashfield">Sutton-in-Ashfield</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kirkby-in-Ashfield" title="Kirkby-in-Ashfield">Kirkby-in-Ashfield</a>) (Pop: 158,114)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Urban_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Lincoln Urban Area">Lincoln Urban Area</a></i> (Spanning Lincoln, <a href="/wiki/North_Hykeham" title="North Hykeham">North Hykeham</a> and other villages) (Pop: 115,000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Burton_upon_Trent_and_Swadlincote_Green_Belt" title="Burton upon Trent and Swadlincote Green Belt">Burton upon Trent and Swadlincote Green Belt</a> (Which although isn't an urban area itself, it spans two counties between <a href="/wiki/Staffordshire" title="Staffordshire">Staffordshire</a> and Derbyshire near the towns of <a href="/wiki/Burton-upon-Trent" class="mw-redirect" title="Burton-upon-Trent">Burton-upon-Trent</a> and <a href="/wiki/Swadlincote" title="Swadlincote">Swadlincote</a> to restrict building)</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Towns_and_cities">Towns and cities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Towns and cities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Major towns and cities in the East Midlands region include:<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd><small><i>Bold indicates <a href="/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="City status in the United Kingdom">city status</a>.</i></small></dd></dl> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1216972533">.mw-parser-output .col-begin{border-collapse:collapse;padding:0;color:inherit;width:100%;border:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .col-begin-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .col-break{vertical-align:top;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .col-break-2{width:50%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-3{width:33.3%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-4{width:25%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-5{width:20%}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .col-begin,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr>td{display:block!important;width:100%!important}.mw-parser-output .col-break{padding-left:0!important}}</style><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break col-break-3"> <dl><dt>Population > 300,000</dt></dl> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a></b>, <a href="/wiki/Leicestershire" title="Leicestershire">LEC</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a></b>, <a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire" title="Nottinghamshire">NTT</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Population > 200,000</dt></dl> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Derby" title="Derby">Derby</a></b>, <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">DBY</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northampton" title="Northampton">Northampton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">NTH</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Population > 100,000</dt></dl> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_England" title="Lincoln, England">Lincoln</a></b>, <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">LIN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mansfield" title="Mansfield">Mansfield</a>, NTT</li></ul> <dl><dt>Population > 50,000</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beeston,_Nottinghamshire" title="Beeston, Nottinghamshire">Beeston</a>, NTT</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chesterfield,_Derbyshire" title="Chesterfield, Derbyshire">Chesterfield</a>, DBY</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corby" title="Corby">Corby</a>, NTH</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hinckley" title="Hinckley">Hinckley</a>, LEC</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kettering" title="Kettering">Kettering</a>, NTH</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loughborough" title="Loughborough">Loughborough</a>, LEC</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wellingborough" title="Wellingborough">Wellingborough</a>, NTH</li></ul> <dl><dt>Population > 25,000</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arnold,_Nottinghamshire" title="Arnold, Nottinghamshire">Arnold</a>, NTT</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boston,_Lincolnshire" title="Boston, Lincolnshire">Boston</a>, LIN</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulwell,_Nottinghamshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Bulwell, Nottinghamshire">Bulwell</a>, NTT</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coalville" title="Coalville">Coalville</a>, LEC</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daventry" title="Daventry">Daventry</a>, NTH</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glossop" title="Glossop">Glossop</a>, DBY</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grantham" title="Grantham">Grantham</a>, LIN</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hucknall" title="Hucknall">Hucknall</a>, NTT</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilkeston" title="Ilkeston">Ilkeston</a>, DBY</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirkby-in-Ashfield" title="Kirkby-in-Ashfield">Kirkby-in-Ashfield</a>, NTT</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Eaton" title="Long Eaton">Long Eaton</a>, DBY</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Market_Harborough" title="Market Harborough">Market Harborough</a>, LEC</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melton_Mowbray" title="Melton Mowbray">Melton Mowbray</a>, LEC</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newark-on-Trent" title="Newark-on-Trent">Newark-on-Trent</a>, NTT</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rushden" title="Rushden">Rushden</a>, NTH</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spalding,_Lincolnshire" title="Spalding, Lincolnshire">Spalding</a>, LIN</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sutton-in-Ashfield" title="Sutton-in-Ashfield">Sutton-in-Ashfield</a>, NTT</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swadlincote" title="Swadlincote">Swadlincote</a>, DBY</li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Bridgford" title="West Bridgford">West Bridgford</a>, NTT</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wigston" title="Wigston">Wigston</a>, LEC</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worksop" title="Worksop">Worksop</a>, NTT</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break col-break-3"> <dl><dt>Population > 10,000</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ashby_de_la_Zouch" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashby de la Zouch">Ashby de la Zouch</a>, LEC</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belper" title="Belper">Belper</a>, DBY</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolsover" title="Bolsover">Bolsover</a>, DBY</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bourne,_Lincolnshire" title="Bourne, Lincolnshire">Bourne</a>, LIN</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brackley" title="Brackley">Brackley</a>, NTH</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buxton" title="Buxton">Buxton</a>, DBY</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desborough" title="Desborough">Desborough</a>, NTH</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dronfield" title="Dronfield">Dronfield</a>, DBY</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_Shilton" title="Earl Shilton">Earl Shilton</a>, LEC</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastwood,_Nottinghamshire" title="Eastwood, Nottinghamshire">Eastwood</a>, NTT</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eckington,_Derbyshire" title="Eckington, Derbyshire">Eckington</a>, DBY</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gainsborough,_Lincolnshire" title="Gainsborough, Lincolnshire">Gainsborough</a>, LIN</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heanor" title="Heanor">Heanor</a>, DBY</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louth,_Lincolnshire" title="Louth, Lincolnshire">Louth</a>, LIN</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lutterworth" title="Lutterworth">Lutterworth</a>, LEC</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mablethorpe" title="Mablethorpe">Mablethorpe</a>, LIN</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mansfield_Woodhouse" title="Mansfield Woodhouse">Mansfield Woodhouse</a>, NTT</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Mills" title="New Mills">New Mills</a>, DBY</li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Hykeham" title="North Hykeham">North Hykeham</a>, LIN</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oadby" title="Oadby">Oadby</a>, LEC</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oakham" title="Oakham">Oakham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rutland" title="Rutland">RUT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Retford" title="Retford">Retford</a>, NTT</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ripley,_Derbyshire" title="Ripley, Derbyshire">Ripley</a>, DBY</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shepshed" title="Shepshed">Shepshed</a>, LEC</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skegness" title="Skegness">Skegness</a>, LIN</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sleaford" title="Sleaford">Sleaford</a>, LIN</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Lincolnshire" title="Stamford, Lincolnshire">Stamford</a>, LIN</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stapleford,_Nottinghamshire" title="Stapleford, Nottinghamshire">Stapleford</a>, NTT</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staveley,_Derbyshire" title="Staveley, Derbyshire">Staveley</a>, DBY</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syston" title="Syston">Syston</a>, LEC</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break col-break-3"> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Watford_gap_service_station.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Watford_gap_service_station.jpg/220px-Watford_gap_service_station.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="184" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Watford_gap_service_station.jpg/330px-Watford_gap_service_station.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Watford_gap_service_station.jpg/440px-Watford_gap_service_station.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="753" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Watford_Gap_services" title="Watford Gap services">Watford Gap services</a>, Britain's first <a href="/wiki/Motorway_service_area" title="Motorway service area">motorway service station</a>, seen here in May 2006, which opened in November 1959</figcaption></figure> <p>9% of all jobs in the region are in <a href="/wiki/Logistics" title="Logistics">logistics</a>. Traffic in the region is growing at 2% per year – the highest growth rate of all UK regions. It is estimated that about 140,000 heavy goods vehicle journeys are made inside the region each day. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Road">Road</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Road"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/M1_motorway" title="M1 motorway">M1</a> (part of the <a href="/wiki/European_route_E13" title="European route E13">E13</a> European route) serves the four largest urban areas in the region and affords a motorway link between <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire" title="Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a>, and <a href="/wiki/North_East_England" title="North East England">North East England</a>. Additionally, the <a href="/wiki/M6_motorway" title="M6 motorway">M6</a> begins on the south-western edge of the region, providing links to the <a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(region)" title="West Midlands (region)">West Midlands</a> and <a href="/wiki/North_West_England" title="North West England">North West England</a>. Both connect to other major routes providing further links to other parts of the UK. </p><p>To the east of the largest cities lies the <a href="/wiki/A1_road_(Great_Britain)" title="A1 road (Great Britain)">A1</a> (part of the <a href="/wiki/European_route_E15" title="European route E15">European route E15</a>), which is important for journeys to and from ports on England's north-east coast and the capital, and is a major artery for the United Kingdom's agricultural industry. The <a href="/wiki/A46_road" title="A46 road">A46</a> largely follows the <a href="/wiki/Fosse_Way" title="Fosse Way">Fosse Way</a>, which has linked the south-western and north-eastern parts of England since Roman times. The <a href="/wiki/A43_road" title="A43 road">A43</a> <a href="/wiki/Dual_carriageway" title="Dual carriageway">dual carriageway</a> connects the East Midlands via the <a href="/wiki/M40_motorway" title="M40 motorway">M40 motorway</a> corridor with the university city of <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/South_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="South of England">South of England</a> and <a href="/wiki/Solent" class="mw-redirect" title="Solent">Solent</a> ports further afield. The historically important <a href="/wiki/A5_road" class="mw-redirect" title="A5 road">A5</a> runs along the south-west <a href="/wiki/Leicestershire" title="Leicestershire">Leicestershire</a> boundary to the south of <a href="/wiki/Lutterworth" title="Lutterworth">Lutterworth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hinckley" title="Hinckley">Hinckley</a>. The <a href="/wiki/A14_road" class="mw-redirect" title="A14 road">A14</a> runs through the north of <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a>, serving the settlements of <a href="/wiki/Kettering" title="Kettering">Kettering</a> and <a href="/wiki/Corby" title="Corby">Corby</a> alongside surrounding areas, and is a major route between the region and the <a href="/wiki/East_of_England" title="East of England">East of England</a>, including the university city of <a href="/wiki/Cambridge" title="Cambridge">Cambridge</a>, and the major port of <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Felixstowe" title="Port of Felixstowe">Felixstowe</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Airports">Airports</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Airports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:East_Midlands2.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/East_Midlands2.JPG/220px-East_Midlands2.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/East_Midlands2.JPG/330px-East_Midlands2.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/East_Midlands2.JPG/440px-East_Midlands2.JPG 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>East Midlands Airport (looking west)</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Airport" title="East Midlands Airport">East Midlands Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/North_West_Leicestershire" title="North West Leicestershire">North West Leicestershire</a> is situated in proximity to the region's largest cities; some 14 miles from the centres of <a href="/wiki/Derby,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Derby, England">Derby</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a>, with central <a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a> being some 21 miles away and <a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_England" title="Lincoln, England">Lincoln</a> further north east being 43 miles away. The airport is the region's biggest public airport, used by over 4 million passengers annually. </p><p>Rivalry between the region's three biggest cities has led to a long-running discussion about the identity of both the airport, and region, with the East Midlands rarely found on any non-political map of the UK. The name was at one point changed to Nottingham East Midlands Airport so as to include the name of the city that is supposedly most internationally recognisable. However, the airport has a Derby phone number and postcode, and is in Leicestershire, but is officially assigned to Nottingham by <a href="/wiki/IATA" class="mw-redirect" title="IATA">IATA</a>. As a result of the dispute, the name change reverted. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:DHL_freight_planes_-_geograph.org.uk_-_165255.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/DHL_freight_planes_-_geograph.org.uk_-_165255.jpg/220px-DHL_freight_planes_-_geograph.org.uk_-_165255.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="111" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/DHL_freight_planes_-_geograph.org.uk_-_165255.jpg/330px-DHL_freight_planes_-_geograph.org.uk_-_165255.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/DHL_freight_planes_-_geograph.org.uk_-_165255.jpg/440px-DHL_freight_planes_-_geograph.org.uk_-_165255.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="322" /></a><figcaption>Air cargo aircraft at EMA</figcaption></figure> <p>Three of the world's four main international air-freight companies (integrators) have their UK operations at EMA: <a href="/wiki/DHL" title="DHL">DHL</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_Parcel_Service" title="United Parcel Service">UPS</a> and <a href="/wiki/TNT_Express" title="TNT Express">TNT Express</a> (TNT bought by UPS); <a href="/wiki/FedEx" title="FedEx">FedEx</a> have theirs at <a href="/wiki/London_Stansted_Airport" title="London Stansted Airport">Stansted</a>. It is the second-largest freight airport in the UK after <a href="/wiki/London_Heathrow_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="London Heathrow Airport">Heathrow</a>, but most freight from EMA is carried on dedicated planes, whereas most freight from Heathrow is carried on passenger planes (bellyhold). <a href="/wiki/Royal_Mail" title="Royal Mail">Royal Mail</a> have their main airport hubs at Heathrow and EMA, as EMA is conveniently near the <a href="/wiki/M1_motorway_(Great_Britain)" class="mw-redirect" title="M1 motorway (Great Britain)">M1</a>, <a href="/wiki/A42_road_(Great_Britain)" class="mw-redirect" title="A42 road (Great Britain)">A42</a> and <a href="/wiki/A50_road_(Great_Britain)" class="mw-redirect" title="A50 road (Great Britain)">A50</a>. Heathrow takes some 60 per cent of UK air freight, and EMA some 10 per cent, with Stansted, Manchester and Gatwick next. Air freight has grown at EMA from 1994 to 2004 from about 10,000 to over 250,000 tonnes. The main hours of cargo flying are from 20:00–05:00; domestic cargo flies into the airport in the evening, then from 23:30 to 01:30 cargo flies to European capitals and from 03:00–05:00 from Europe to EMA. It is the UK's twelfth-largest passenger airport; the runway is the UK's sixth-longest at 2,900 metres (9,500 ft). <a href="/wiki/Royal_Mail" title="Royal Mail">Royal Mail</a> flights from EMA go to <a href="/wiki/Belfast" title="Belfast">Belfast</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Inverness" title="Inverness">Inverness</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aberdeen" title="Aberdeen">Aberdeen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne" title="Newcastle upon Tyne">Newcastle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Exeter" title="Exeter">Exeter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bournemouth" title="Bournemouth">Bournemouth</a>, and it is the largest UK Royal Mail air hub, with eleven flights per night. DHL is the main route carrier at EMA by far with 20 flights per night, UPS have 6, and TNT have 2 (Belfast and Liège); for hubs in Europe, DHL flies to <a href="/wiki/Leipzig" title="Leipzig">Leipzig</a>, UPS to <a href="/wiki/Cologne" title="Cologne">Cologne</a>, and TNT at <a href="/wiki/Li%C3%A8ge" title="Liège">Liège</a>. </p><p>Smaller airports in the region include <a href="/wiki/Retford_Gamston_Airport" title="Retford Gamston Airport">Retford Gamston Airport</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nottingham_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Nottingham Airport">Nottingham Airport</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leicester_Airport" title="Leicester Airport">Leicester Airport</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hucknall_Airfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Hucknall Airfield">Hucknall Airfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sywell_Aerodrome" title="Sywell Aerodrome">Sywell Aerodrome</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bruntingthorpe_Aerodrome" title="Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome">Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome</a> and <a href="/wiki/Humberside_Airport" title="Humberside Airport">Humberside Airport</a>. <a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood_Airport_Doncaster_Sheffield" class="mw-redirect" title="Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield">Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield</a> lies just outside the East Midlands in <a href="/wiki/South_Yorkshire" title="South Yorkshire">South Yorkshire</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Railway">Railway</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Railway"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Newark_North_Gate_railway_station_MMB_09.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Newark_North_Gate_railway_station_MMB_09.jpg/220px-Newark_North_Gate_railway_station_MMB_09.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Newark_North_Gate_railway_station_MMB_09.jpg/330px-Newark_North_Gate_railway_station_MMB_09.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Newark_North_Gate_railway_station_MMB_09.jpg/440px-Newark_North_Gate_railway_station_MMB_09.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3819" data-file-height="2346" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Newark_North_Gate_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Newark North Gate railway station">Newark North Gate railway station</a> </figcaption></figure> <p>Three of the United Kingdom's mainline railways serve the region: the <a href="/wiki/Midland_Main_Line" title="Midland Main Line">Midland Main Line</a>, the <a href="/wiki/East_Coast_Main_Line" title="East Coast Main Line">East Coast Main Line</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Main_Line" title="West Coast Main Line">West Coast Main Line</a> (<a href="/wiki/Northampton_Loop" class="mw-redirect" title="Northampton Loop">Northampton Loop</a>) providing services terminating at <a href="/wiki/St_Pancras_railway_station" title="St Pancras railway station">London St Pancras</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_King%27s_Cross_railway_station" title="London King's Cross railway station">London King's Cross</a> and <a href="/wiki/Euston_railway_station" title="Euston railway station">London Euston</a> respectively. The three lines provide regular high-speed services to <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, at up to 125 mph (200 km/h), serving <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_railway_station" title="Wellingborough railway station">Wellingborough</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kettering_railway_station" title="Kettering railway station">Kettering</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corby_railway_station" title="Corby railway station">Corby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Market_Harborough_railway_station" title="Market Harborough railway station">Market Harborough</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leicester_railway_station" title="Leicester railway station">Leicester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Loughborough_railway_station" title="Loughborough railway station">Loughborough</a>, <a href="/wiki/Derby_railway_station" title="Derby railway station">Derby</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Parkway_railway_station" title="East Midlands Parkway railway station">East Midlands Parkway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nottingham_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Nottingham railway station">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chesterfield_railway_station" title="Chesterfield railway station">Chesterfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grantham_railway_station" title="Grantham railway station">Grantham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newark_North_Gate_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Newark North Gate railway station">Newark North Gate</a> and <a href="/wiki/Retford_railway_station" title="Retford railway station">Retford</a>. <a href="/wiki/Northampton_railway_station" title="Northampton railway station">Northampton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Long_Buckby_railway_station" title="Long Buckby railway station">Long Buckby</a> are served by the <a href="/wiki/Northampton_Loop" class="mw-redirect" title="Northampton Loop">Northampton Loop</a> of the <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Main_Line" title="West Coast Main Line">West Coast Main Line</a>. England's primary south-west to north-east <a href="/wiki/Cross_Country_Route" title="Cross Country Route">Cross Country Route</a> runs through Derby and Chesterfield. <a href="/wiki/Worksop_railway_station" title="Worksop railway station">Worksop</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mansfield_railway_station_(England)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mansfield railway station (England)">Mansfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_railway_station" title="Lincoln railway station">Lincoln</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matlock_railway_station" title="Matlock railway station">Matlock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Melton_Mowbray_railway_station" title="Melton Mowbray railway station">Melton Mowbray</a>, <a href="/wiki/Skegness_railway_station" title="Skegness railway station">Skegness</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boston_railway_station" title="Boston railway station">Boston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spalding_railway_station" title="Spalding railway station">Spalding</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oakham_railway_station" title="Oakham railway station">Oakham</a> are served by regional services The <a href="/wiki/Chiltern_Main_Line" title="Chiltern Main Line">Chiltern Main Line</a> also serves the western fringe of the region, at <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Sutton_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="King's Sutton railway station">Kings's Sutton</a>. </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Land_speed_record_for_rail_vehicles" class="mw-redirect" title="Land speed record for rail vehicles">land speed record for trains</a> was broken in the region. Although the record was set in 1938, the current world speed record for <a href="/wiki/Steam_locomotive" title="Steam locomotive">steam trains</a> is held by <a href="/wiki/LNER_Class_A4_4468_Mallard" title="LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard">4468 <i>Mallard</i></a>, which clocked 126 mph (203 km/h) between <a href="/wiki/Grantham_railway_station" title="Grantham railway station">Grantham</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peterborough_railway_station" title="Peterborough railway station">Peterborough</a>, pulling six coaches on the <a href="/wiki/East_Coast_Main_Line" title="East Coast Main Line">East Coast Main Line</a> near <a href="/wiki/Little_Bytham" title="Little Bytham">Little Bytham</a> in Lincolnshire, on 3 July 1938. The <i>Mallard</i> record was unbroken by any British rail train until 6 June 1973, when an <a href="/wiki/InterCity_125" title="InterCity 125">InterCity 125</a> between <a href="/wiki/Northallerton_railway_station" title="Northallerton railway station">Northallerton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thirsk_railway_station" title="Thirsk railway station">Thirsk</a> reached 131 mph (211 km/h). <i>Mallard</i> in 1938 had six carriages and a <a href="/wiki/Dynamometer_car" title="Dynamometer car">dynamometer car</a>. The national electric-train speed record (pre-<a href="/wiki/High_Speed_1" title="High Speed 1">High Speed 1</a>) of 162 mph (261 km/h) was set on the same stretch as the Mallard record, on 17 September 1989 by <a href="/wiki/British_Rail_Class_91" title="British Rail Class 91">Class 91</a> 91010. </p><p>There were plans to bring a new <a href="/wiki/High-speed_rail" title="High-speed rail">high-speed rail</a> line through the East Midlands as part of the <a href="/wiki/High_Speed_2" title="High Speed 2">High Speed 2</a> project, of which <a href="/wiki/High_Speed_2_Phase_Two" title="High Speed 2 Phase Two">Phase 2</a> would have brought a new line connecting <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Curzon_Street_railway_station" title="Birmingham Curzon Street railway station">Birmingham</a> to <a href="/wiki/Leeds_railway_station" title="Leeds railway station">Leeds</a>, with a proposed station in <a href="/wiki/Toton" title="Toton">Toton</a> known as the <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Hub_railway_station" title="East Midlands Hub railway station">East Midlands Hub</a> It would also have served the region via "classic-compatible" tracks serving <a href="/wiki/Chesterfield_railway_station" title="Chesterfield railway station">Chesterfield</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sheffield_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Sheffield railway station">Sheffield</a>, the latter of which is just outside the region in <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_%26_the_Humber" class="mw-redirect" title="Yorkshire & the Humber">Yorkshire & the Humber</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Water">Water</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Water"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:River_Trent_-_geograph.org.uk_-_684700.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/River_Trent_-_geograph.org.uk_-_684700.jpg/220px-River_Trent_-_geograph.org.uk_-_684700.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/River_Trent_-_geograph.org.uk_-_684700.jpg/330px-River_Trent_-_geograph.org.uk_-_684700.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/River_Trent_-_geograph.org.uk_-_684700.jpg/440px-River_Trent_-_geograph.org.uk_-_684700.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="427" /></a><figcaption>The River Trent at the former <a href="/wiki/High_Marnham_Power_Station" title="High Marnham Power Station">High Marnham Power Station</a>, next to the 1897 <a href="/wiki/Fledborough_Viaduct" title="Fledborough Viaduct">Fledborough Viaduct</a>; the power station, built in 1959, was Europe's first 1000 MW coal power station (5 x 200 MW) and consumed coal from 17 collieries; the area is the largest collection of power stations in Europe, sometimes known as <i>Kilowatt Valley</i></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/River_Trent" title="River Trent">Trent</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Navigability" title="Navigability">navigable river</a> used to transport goods to the <a href="/wiki/Humber" title="Humber">Humber</a>, as well as passing by many power stations. The Trent is the only river in England able to supply cooling water for power stations for most of its length; it has the largest water capacity in England, although it is not the longest. </p><p>Several rivers in the region gave their name to early <a href="/wiki/Rolls-Royce_plc" class="mw-redirect" title="Rolls-Royce plc">Rolls-Royce</a> jet engines, namely the <a href="/wiki/River_Nene" title="River Nene">Nene</a>, the <a href="/wiki/River_Welland" title="River Welland">Welland</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/River_Soar" title="River Soar">Soar</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Trams">Trams</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Trams"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nottingham is the only city in the region served by a light railway system, operated by <a href="/wiki/Nottingham_Express_Transit" title="Nottingham Express Transit">Nottingham Express Transit</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transport_policy">Transport policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Transport policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As part of the transport planning system, the now defunct Regional Assembly was under statutory requirement to produce a Regional Transport Strategy to provide long term planning for transport in the region. This involved region wide transport schemes such as those carried out by the <a href="/wiki/Highways_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Highways Agency">Highways Agency</a> and <a href="/wiki/Network_Rail" title="Network Rail">Network Rail</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GoEM1_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GoEM1-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Local transport authorities in the region carry out planning through a <a href="/wiki/Local_transport_plan" title="Local transport plan">Local Transport Plan (LTP)</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DfT1_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DfT1-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The most recent LTPs are for the period 2006–11. The following East Midland transport authorities published an LTP online: <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-DLTP_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DLTP-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Leicestershire" title="Leicestershire">Leicestershire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LeTP_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LeTP-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-LiLTP_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LiLTP-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-NhLTP_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NhLTP-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire" title="Nottinghamshire">Nottinghamshire</a><sup id="cite_ref-NtLTP_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NtLTP-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Rutland" title="Rutland">Rutland</a> U.A.<sup id="cite_ref-RLTP_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RLTP-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authorities#United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Unitary authorities">unitary authorities</a> of <a href="/wiki/Derby" title="Derby">Derby</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-DcLTP_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DcLTP-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a><sup id="cite_ref-LicLTP_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LicLTP-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a><sup id="cite_ref-NcLTP_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NcLTP-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They have each written a joint LTP in collaboration with their respective local county councils. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Romans">Romans</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Romans"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A historical basis for such a region exists in the territory of the <a href="/wiki/Corieltauvi" title="Corieltauvi">Corieltauvi</a> tribe. When the <a href="/wiki/Roman_conquest_of_Britain" title="Roman conquest of Britain">Romans</a> took control, they made Leicester (<a href="/wiki/Ratae_Corieltauvorum" title="Ratae Corieltauvorum">Ratae Corieltauvorum</a>) one of their main forts. The main town in the region in Roman times was <a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_England" title="Lincoln, England">Lincoln</a>, at the confluence of the <a href="/wiki/Fosse_Way" title="Fosse Way">Fosse Way</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ermine_Street" title="Ermine Street">Ermine Street</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Midland_Map_-_5_Boroughs_912_Ad.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Midland_Map_-_5_Boroughs_912_Ad.svg/220px-Midland_Map_-_5_Boroughs_912_Ad.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="186" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Midland_Map_-_5_Boroughs_912_Ad.svg/330px-Midland_Map_-_5_Boroughs_912_Ad.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Midland_Map_-_5_Boroughs_912_Ad.svg/440px-Midland_Map_-_5_Boroughs_912_Ad.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="581" data-file-height="490" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Five_Boroughs_of_the_Danelaw" title="Five Boroughs of the Danelaw">Five Boroughs of the Danelaw</a> </figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anglo-Saxons_and_the_Danelaw">Anglo-Saxons and the Danelaw</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Anglo-Saxons and the Danelaw"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the withdrawal of the Romans, the area was settled by <a href="/wiki/Angles_(tribe)" title="Angles (tribe)">Angles</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Germanic_peoples" title="Germanic peoples">Germanic</a> people who gave the East Midlands most of the place-names it has today. They eventually founded the Kingdom of Mercia, meaning "borderlands," as it borders the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_people" title="Welsh people">Welsh</a> people to the west. The region also corresponds to the later <a href="/wiki/Five_Boroughs_of_the_Danelaw" title="Five Boroughs of the Danelaw">Five Boroughs</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Danelaw" title="Danelaw">Danelaw</a>, the area that Vikings from Denmark controlled. In about 917 the region was subdivided between Danelaw (Vikings) to the north, and Mercia (Anglo-Saxons) to the south. By 920 this border had moved north to the <a href="/wiki/River_Humber" class="mw-redirect" title="River Humber">River Humber</a>. Evidence of the Danelaw can be seen in place-name endings of the region's villages, particularly towards the east. The Danes under <a href="/wiki/Cnut_the_Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Cnut the Great">Canute</a> recaptured the area between about 1016 and 1035, but it came back under English control after Canute's death that same year. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Civil_War">Civil War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Civil War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The region's two main battles in the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a> were the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Naseby" title="Battle of Naseby">Battle of Naseby</a> in northern Northamptonshire on 14 June 1645, and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Winceby" title="Battle of Winceby">Battle of Winceby</a> on 11 October 1643 in eastern Lincolnshire. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Scientific_heritage">Scientific heritage</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Scientific heritage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Newton" title="Isaac Newton">Isaac Newton</a>, born in <a href="/wiki/Grantham" title="Grantham">Grantham</a> in 1642, is perhaps the most prolific scientist. His accomplishments include <a href="/wiki/Calculus" title="Calculus">calculus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newton%27s_laws_of_motion" title="Newton's laws of motion">Newton's laws of motion</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Newton%27s_law_of_universal_gravitation" title="Newton's law of universal gravitation">Newton's law of universal gravitation</a>, among many others. There is a shopping centre named in his honour in Grantham. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Simpson" title="Thomas Simpson">Thomas Simpson</a> from Leicestershire is known for <a href="/wiki/Simpson%27s_rule" title="Simpson's rule">Simpson's rule</a>. <a href="/wiki/Roger_Cotes" title="Roger Cotes">Roger Cotes</a> invented the concept of the <a href="/wiki/Radian" title="Radian">radian</a> in 1714, but the term was not so-named until 1873. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Henry_Cavendish" title="Henry Cavendish">Henry Cavendish</a>, loosely connected with Derbyshire, discovered <a href="/wiki/Hydrogen" title="Hydrogen">hydrogen</a> in 1766 (although the element's name came from <a href="/wiki/Antoine_Lavoisier" title="Antoine Lavoisier">Antoine Lavoisier</a>), and Cavendish was the first to estimate an accurate mass of the Earth in 1798 in his <a href="/wiki/Cavendish_experiment" title="Cavendish experiment">Cavendish experiment</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Cavendish_Laboratory" title="Cavendish Laboratory">Cavendish Laboratory</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a> is named after a <a href="/wiki/William_Cavendish,_7th_Duke_of_Devonshire" title="William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire">relative</a>. <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Spencer" title="Herbert Spencer">Herbert Spencer</a> coined the term "<a href="/wiki/Survival_of_the_fittest" title="Survival of the fittest">survival of the fittest</a>" in 1864, which was once strongly linked with <a href="/wiki/Social_Darwinism" title="Social Darwinism">social Darwinism</a>. <a href="/wiki/John_Flamsteed" title="John Flamsteed">Sir John Flamsteed</a> was the first <a href="/wiki/Astronomer_Royal" title="Astronomer Royal">Astronomer Royal</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Observatory,_Greenwich" title="Royal Observatory, Greenwich">Royal Observatory, Greenwich</a> in 1675. <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bakewell_(agriculturalist)" title="Robert Bakewell (agriculturalist)">Robert Bakewell</a>, of <a href="/wiki/Dishley_Grange" title="Dishley Grange">Dishley</a> in Leicestershire and known for his <a href="/wiki/English_Leicester_sheep" class="mw-redirect" title="English Leicester sheep">English Leicester sheep</a>, arrived at <a href="/wiki/Selective_breeding" title="Selective breeding">selective breeding</a>; his <a href="/wiki/English_Longhorn" title="English Longhorn">English Longhorn</a> were the first ever <a href="/wiki/Beef_cattle" title="Beef cattle">cattle bred for beef</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/George_Boole" title="George Boole">George Boole</a>, pioneer of <a href="/wiki/Boolean_logic" class="mw-redirect" title="Boolean logic">Boolean logic</a> (upon which all <a href="/wiki/Digital_electronics" title="Digital electronics">digital electronics</a> and computers depend), was born in Lincoln in 1815. The application of Boole's theory to digital circuit design would come in 1937 by <a href="/wiki/Claude_Shannon" title="Claude Shannon">Claude Shannon</a>. Boole's grandson, the physicist <a href="/wiki/G._I._Taylor" title="G. I. Taylor">G. I. Taylor</a>, made significant experimental contributions to <a href="/wiki/Quantum_mechanics" title="Quantum mechanics">quantum mechanics</a>. The first practical <a href="/wiki/Stowe_Nine_Churches" title="Stowe Nine Churches">demonstration</a> of radar was near <a href="/wiki/Daventry" title="Daventry">Daventry</a> in 1935. <a href="/wiki/Robert_Robinson_(organic_chemist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Robinson (organic chemist)">Robert Robinson</a>, of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, invented the circular symbol in 1925 for the <a href="/wiki/Pi_bond" title="Pi bond">pi bonds</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Benzene" title="Benzene">benzene</a> ring, as found on all structural diagrams of <a href="/wiki/Aromatic_hydrocarbon" class="mw-redirect" title="Aromatic hydrocarbon">aromatic compounds</a>. <a href="/wiki/Nicola_Pellow" title="Nicola Pellow">Nicola Pellow</a>, a maths undergraduate at Leicester Polytechnic, whilst at CERN in November 1990, wrote the world's second web browser. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Silicone" title="Silicone">Silicone</a> was discovered in 1899 by Prof <a href="/wiki/Frederic_Kipping" title="Frederic Kipping">Frederic Kipping</a> at University College, Nottingham. <a href="/wiki/Michael_Creeth" title="Michael Creeth">Michael Creeth</a> of Northampton discovered the <a href="/wiki/Nucleic_acid_secondary_structure" title="Nucleic acid secondary structure">hydrogen-bonding mechanism between DNA bases</a>, allowing the <a href="/wiki/Nucleic_acid_structure" title="Nucleic acid structure">structure of DNA</a> to be discovered. Nottinghamshire's Ken Richardson was in charge of the team at Pfizer in Sandwich, Kent that in 1981 discovered <a href="/wiki/Fluconazole" title="Fluconazole">Fluconazole</a> (Diflucan), the world's leading <a href="/wiki/Antifungal_medication" class="mw-redirect" title="Antifungal medication">antifungal medication</a>, especially useful for those with <a href="/wiki/Immunodeficiency" title="Immunodeficiency">weakened immune systems</a>. It has few side effects. Richardson is now one of the few Britons in the <a href="/wiki/National_Inventors_Hall_of_Fame" title="National Inventors Hall of Fame">National Inventors Hall of Fame</a>. <a href="/wiki/Don_Grierson_(geneticist)" title="Don Grierson (geneticist)">Don Grierson</a> at the University of Nottingham was the first to produce a <a href="/wiki/Genetically_modified_tomato" title="Genetically modified tomato">Genetically modified tomato</a>, which became the first GM food on sale in the UK and in the United States. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Louis_Essen" title="Louis Essen">Louis Essen</a>, a Nottingham physicist, <a href="/wiki/History_of_timekeeping_devices" title="History of timekeeping devices">made advances</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Quartz_clock" title="Quartz clock">quartz clock</a> in the 1930s at the <a href="/wiki/National_Physical_Laboratory_(United_Kingdom)" title="National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)">National Physical Laboratory</a> in Teddington, to produce the quartz ring clock in 1938, and the caesium clock, known as the <a href="/wiki/Atomic_clock" title="Atomic clock">atomic clock</a>, in 1955. During the war he invented the <a href="/wiki/Absorption_wavemeter" title="Absorption wavemeter">cavity resonance wavemeter</a> to find the first accurate value of the speed of light. The atomic clock works on differences in <a href="/wiki/Spin_magnetic_moment" class="mw-redirect" title="Spin magnetic moment">magnetic spin</a>. Before Essen's invention, the <a href="/wiki/Second" title="Second">second</a> was defined in terms of the <a href="/wiki/Earth%27s_orbit" title="Earth's orbit">orbit of the Earth round the Sun</a>; he changed it in 1967 to be based on the <a href="/wiki/Hyperfine_structure" title="Hyperfine structure">hyperfine structure</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Isotopes_of_caesium" title="Isotopes of caesium">caesium-133</a> atom. <a href="/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">Coordinated Universal Time</a> (UTC), in Paris, takes the average of 300 atomic clocks around the world. </p><p>On the early morning of Tuesday 26 February 1935 the <a href="/wiki/Daventry_transmitting_station" title="Daventry transmitting station">radio transmitter</a> at <a href="/wiki/Daventry" title="Daventry">Daventry</a> was used for what became known as the "<a href="/wiki/Chain_Home#Daventry_experiment" title="Chain Home">Daventry Experiment</a>" which involved the first-ever practical demonstration of <a href="/wiki/Radar" title="Radar">radar</a>, by its inventor <a href="/wiki/Robert_Watson-Watt" title="Robert Watson-Watt">Robert Watson-Watt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Frederic_Wilkins" class="mw-redirect" title="Arnold Frederic Wilkins">Arnold Frederic Wilkins</a>. They used a radio receiver installed in a van at <a href="/wiki/Litchborough" title="Litchborough">Litchborough</a> (just off the <a href="/wiki/A5_road_(Great_Britain)" title="A5 road (Great Britain)">A5</a> about 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Daventry) to receive signals bounced off a metal-clad <a href="/wiki/Handley_Page_Heyford" title="Handley Page Heyford">Handley Page Heyford</a> bomber flying across the radio transmissions. The interference picked up from the aircraft allowed its approximate <a href="/wiki/Bearing_(navigation)" title="Bearing (navigation)">navigational position</a> to be estimated, and therefore proved that it was possible to detect the position of aircraft using radio waves. The success of the experiment persuaded the British government to fund the development of a network of full scale radar stations on the south coast of England, which became known as <a href="/wiki/Chain_Home" title="Chain Home">Chain Home</a>, which provided a decisive advantage to the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">RAF</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Britain" title="Battle of Britain">Battle of Britain</a> in 1940.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lincoln_Steep_Hill_1.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Lincoln_Steep_Hill_1.JPG/220px-Lincoln_Steep_Hill_1.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Lincoln_Steep_Hill_1.JPG/330px-Lincoln_Steep_Hill_1.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Lincoln_Steep_Hill_1.JPG/440px-Lincoln_Steep_Hill_1.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Steep Hill in <a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_England" title="Lincoln, England">Lincoln</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Treibjagd0001.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Treibjagd0001.JPG/220px-Treibjagd0001.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Treibjagd0001.JPG/330px-Treibjagd0001.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Treibjagd0001.JPG/440px-Treibjagd0001.JPG 2x" data-file-width="623" data-file-height="404" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Fox_hunting" title="Fox hunting">Fox hunting</a> is historically linked with the East Midlands</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Culture_and_identity">Culture and identity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Culture and identity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Language and dialect</b> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_English" title="East Midlands English">East Midlands English</a>, <a href="/wiki/English_language_in_England#East_Midlands" title="English language in England">English language in England § East Midlands</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Received_Pronunciation#History" title="Received Pronunciation">Received Pronunciation § History</a></div> <p>Parts of the East Midlands use a distinctive form of spoken dialect and accent. It also has some history in the beginnings of <a href="/wiki/Received_Pronunciation" title="Received Pronunciation">Received Pronunciation</a> and southern England accents. However, spoken dialect and accent in the northern area of the East Midlands is far more similar to Northern English. </p><p><b>Identity</b> </p><p>There is no modern Midlander, or East Midlander, identity. As Robert Shore wrote: "no one is more sceptical about the existence of an overarching Midland identity than Midlanders themselves."<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Inhabitants of the East Midlands tend to identify themselves either on a county or town basis, regarding the East Midlands as simply a bureaucratic area that lumps together dissimilar places. In the North of the region, in areas such as North Nottinghamshire and North Derbyshire, people culturally identify as Northerners. For example, a study by YouGov in 2018 found that a quarter of the inhabitants of the region identified as Northerners.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A new area of the <a href="/wiki/North_Midlands" title="North Midlands">North Midlands</a> has been proposed, but this has not taken off. In <a href="/wiki/Bassetlaw_District" title="Bassetlaw District">Bassetlaw</a>, the most northern local authority in the East Midlands area, many of the shared services such as NHS are with South Yorkshire, not with other Midlands areas. The television signal comes mainly from the <a href="/wiki/Emley_Moor_transmitting_station" title="Emley Moor transmitting station">Emley Moor transmitting station</a>, which broadcasts local news from BBC Look North and Calendar News. And its officially designated BBC Local Radio station in terms of radio coverage is <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Sheffield" title="BBC Radio Sheffield">BBC Radio Sheffield</a>. In 2016 Bassetlaw District Council voted to become part of the Sheffield City Region because of the strong local ties.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>Food and cuisine</b> </p><p>The area is known historically for its food, examples of which include <a href="/wiki/Red_Leicester" title="Red Leicester">Red Leicester</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_sausage" title="Lincolnshire sausage">Lincolnshire sausage</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Melton_Mowbray_pork_pie" class="mw-redirect" title="Melton Mowbray pork pie">Melton Mowbray pork pie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stilton_cheese" title="Stilton cheese">Stilton</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Bakewell_pudding" title="Bakewell pudding">Bakewell pudding</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Bramley_(apple)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bramley (apple)">Bramley apple</a>. </p><p><b>The arts</b> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a> and <a href="/wiki/D._H._Lawrence" title="D. H. Lawrence">D. H. Lawrence</a> are perhaps the region's best known authors, although the latter only gained full recognition in the late 20th century. The <a href="/wiki/Key_Words_Reading_Scheme" title="Key Words Reading Scheme">Key Words Reading Scheme</a> (<i>Peter and Jane</i>) was first produced in 1964 by Ladybird of Loughborough and is still in print. The books originated in 1948 with an idea from <a href="/w/index.php?title=Douglas_Keen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Douglas Keen (page does not exist)">Douglas Keen</a> of <a href="/wiki/Heanor" title="Heanor">Heanor</a>; the first was <i>British Birds and Their Nests</i>. <a href="/wiki/Ladybird_Books" title="Ladybird Books">Ladybird Books</a> were published in Loughborough throughout their 1960s and 1970s heyday, with the site closing in 1998. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Wright_of_Derby" title="Joseph Wright of Derby">Joseph Wright</a> of Derby was an artist whose paintings symbolised the struggle between science and religious values in the Age of Enlightenment. He was also suggested to be "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution". </p><p><a href="/wiki/Charles_Frederick_Worth" title="Charles Frederick Worth">Charles Frederick Worth</a>, born in Lincolnshire in 1825, is considered to be the founder of Parisian <i><a href="/wiki/Haute_couture" title="Haute couture">haute couture</a></i>, ostensibly as the world's first true fashion designer. </p><p><b>Religion</b> </p><p><a href="/wiki/William_Booth" title="William Booth">William Booth</a> of Nottingham founded <a href="/wiki/The_Salvation_Army" title="The Salvation Army">The Salvation Army</a> in 1865. Another religious order, the <a href="/wiki/Pilgrim_(Plymouth_Colony)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pilgrim (Plymouth Colony)">Pilgrim Fathers</a>, originated from <a href="/wiki/Babworth" title="Babworth">Babworth</a> near <a href="/wiki/Retford" title="Retford">Retford</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Quakers" title="Quakers">Quakers</a>, also known as the Religious Society of Friends, were founded by Leicestershire-born (<a href="/wiki/Fenny_Drayton" title="Fenny Drayton">Fenny Drayton</a>) <a href="/wiki/George_Fox" title="George Fox">George Fox</a>, who had an inspiration whilst living in <a href="/wiki/Mansfield" title="Mansfield">Mansfield</a> in 1647. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer" title="Thomas Cranmer">Thomas Cranmer</a> from Aslockton compiled the Church of England <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer" title="Book of Common Prayer">Book of Common Prayer</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Industrial_heritage">Industrial heritage</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Industrial heritage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The region can claim the world's first factory, <a href="/wiki/Sir_Richard_Arkwright" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Richard Arkwright">Sir Richard Arkwright</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Cromford_Mill" title="Cromford Mill">Cromford Mill</a>. Additionally, the world's oldest working factory can also be found in the area, producing textiles at <a href="/wiki/Dethick,_Lea_and_Holloway" title="Dethick, Lea and Holloway">Lea Bridge</a>, owned by <a href="/wiki/John_Smedley_(industrialist)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Smedley (industrialist)">John Smedley</a>. Both sites are part of the region's only <a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="List of World Heritage Sites of the United Kingdom">World Heritage Site</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Derwent_Valley_Mills" title="Derwent Valley Mills">Derwent Valley Mills</a>. An opportunist employee of the Derbyshire textile factories, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Slater" title="Samuel Slater">Samuel Slater</a> of <a href="/wiki/Belper" title="Belper">Belper</a> saw his chance and (illegally) eloped in 1789 to <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a> in the US after memorising the layout of the textile machinery while working at <a href="/wiki/Jedediah_Strutt" title="Jedediah Strutt">Jedediah Strutt</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Milford,_Derbyshire" title="Milford, Derbyshire">Milford</a> Mill. He was warmly welcomed by the inhabitants of the newly formed USA, so much so that he was later named the "Father of the <a href="/wiki/American_Industrial_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="American Industrial Revolution">American Industrial Revolution</a>". </p><p>Britain's hosiery and knitwear industry was largely based in the region, and in the 1980s it had more textile workers than any other British region. The <a href="/wiki/Stocking_frame" title="Stocking frame">stocking frame</a> was invented 1587 in <a href="/wiki/Calverton,_Nottinghamshire" title="Calverton, Nottinghamshire">Calverton, Nottinghamshire</a> by Rev <a href="/wiki/William_Lee_(inventor)" title="William Lee (inventor)">William Lee</a>; these were the first known <a href="/wiki/Knitting_machine" title="Knitting machine">knitting machines</a> and heralded the industrial revolution by providing the necessary machinery. The world's first (horse-powered) cotton mill was built in central Nottingham in 1768. <a href="/wiki/Marvel%27s_Mill" title="Marvel's Mill">Marvel's Mill</a> in Northampton was the first <a href="/wiki/Cotton_mill" title="Cotton mill">cotton mill</a> to be powered by water. </p><p><a href="/wiki/John_Barber_(engineer)" title="John Barber (engineer)">John Barber</a> of Nottinghamshire had invented a simple <a href="/wiki/Gas_turbine" title="Gas turbine">gas turbine</a> in 1791 (when living in <a href="/wiki/Nuneaton" title="Nuneaton">Nuneaton</a>). <a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_England" title="Lincoln, England">Lincoln</a> was the site of the first <a href="/wiki/Tanks_in_World_War_I" title="Tanks in World War I">tank</a> (first built on 8 September 1915, <a href="/wiki/Little_Willie" title="Little Willie">Little Willie</a> was the first tank, and is the oldest surviving tank in the world, originally called the No.1 Lincoln Machine), and <a href="/wiki/Grantham" title="Grantham">Grantham</a> the first <a href="/wiki/Diesel_engine" title="Diesel engine">diesel engine</a> (in 1892). The <a href="/wiki/Jet_engine" title="Jet engine">jet engine</a> was first <a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_jet_power" title="Timeline of jet power">developed</a> in the region in <a href="/wiki/Lutterworth" title="Lutterworth">Lutterworth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Whetstone,_Leicestershire" title="Whetstone, Leicestershire">Whetstone</a>, with the <a href="/wiki/VTOL" title="VTOL">VTOL</a> engine also (initially) <a href="/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Thrust_Measuring_Rig" title="Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig">developed</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hucknall" title="Hucknall">Hucknall</a>. The first jet aircraft flew from <a href="/wiki/RAF_Cranwell" title="RAF Cranwell">RAF Cranwell</a> in May 1941. During the Second World War, <a href="/wiki/Derby" title="Derby">Derby</a> was an important strategic location, as it was in Derby that <a href="/wiki/Rolls-Royce_plc" class="mw-redirect" title="Rolls-Royce plc">Rolls-Royce</a> developed and manufactured their iconic <a href="/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin" title="Rolls-Royce Merlin">Merlin</a> aero-engine. During the Second World War, all of R-R's engineering staff had been transferred to Belper. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:APT_370-004,_Rocket_150,_Rainhill,_May_1980_Slides187_(9859941613).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/APT_370-004%2C_Rocket_150%2C_Rainhill%2C_May_1980_Slides187_%289859941613%29.jpg/220px-APT_370-004%2C_Rocket_150%2C_Rainhill%2C_May_1980_Slides187_%289859941613%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/APT_370-004%2C_Rocket_150%2C_Rainhill%2C_May_1980_Slides187_%289859941613%29.jpg/330px-APT_370-004%2C_Rocket_150%2C_Rainhill%2C_May_1980_Slides187_%289859941613%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/APT_370-004%2C_Rocket_150%2C_Rainhill%2C_May_1980_Slides187_%289859941613%29.jpg/440px-APT_370-004%2C_Rocket_150%2C_Rainhill%2C_May_1980_Slides187_%289859941613%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1291" data-file-height="860" /></a><figcaption>The innovative but aborted APT, designed in Derby, seen here in May 1980</figcaption></figure> <p>Derby was home to two railway workshops, <a href="/wiki/Derby_Works" title="Derby Works">Derby Works</a> and <a href="/wiki/Derby_Litchurch_Lane_Works" title="Derby Litchurch Lane Works">Derby Litchurch Lane Works</a> initially for the <a href="/wiki/Midland_Railway" title="Midland Railway">Midland Railway</a>, then the <a href="/wiki/London,_Midland_%26_Scottish_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="London, Midland & Scottish Railway">London, Midland & Scottish Railway</a>, and finally <a href="/wiki/British_Rail" title="British Rail">British Rail</a>. <a href="/wiki/British_Rail_Research_Division" title="British Rail Research Division">British Rail Research Division</a> in Derby invented the <a href="/wiki/Advanced_Passenger_Train" title="Advanced Passenger Train">APT</a> (<a href="/wiki/British_Rail_Class_370" title="British Rail Class 370">British Rail Class 370</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Maglev" title="Maglev">Maglev</a>. The first ever steel rails were laid in 1857 at <a href="/wiki/Derby_railway_station" title="Derby railway station">Derby railway station</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Midland_Railway" title="Midland Railway">Midland Railway</a>. Derby Litchurch Lane Works remains in operation under the ownership of <a href="/wiki/Alstom" title="Alstom">Alstom</a> </p><p>At its peak, <a href="/wiki/Corby_Steelworks" class="mw-redirect" title="Corby Steelworks">Corby Steelworks</a> was the largest in Britain. The collapsible <a href="/wiki/Baby_transport" title="Baby transport">baby buggy</a> was invented in 1965 at <a href="/wiki/Barby,_Northamptonshire" title="Barby, Northamptonshire">Barby, Northamptonshire</a> by <a href="/wiki/Owen_Finlay_Maclaren" title="Owen Finlay Maclaren">Owen Maclaren</a>. <a href="/wiki/Ford_of_Britain" title="Ford of Britain">Ford</a>'s £8 million Daventry Parts Distribution Centre (Ford Parts Centre) was fully opened on 6 September 1972, the first southern section opened in 1968, and was the UK's largest building by floor area for many years at 36.7 acres (149,000 m<sup>2</sup>), and is situated opposite the <a href="/wiki/Cummins_UK" title="Cummins UK">Cummins</a> factory. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zoomlens2.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Zoomlens2.png/220px-Zoomlens2.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="278" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Zoomlens2.png 1.5x" data-file-width="320" data-file-height="404" /></a><figcaption>How a zoom lens works; the principle was largely first invented in Leicester</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_photographic_lens_design" title="History of photographic lens design">History of photographic lens design</a></div> <p>The largest camera in the world was built in 1957 in Derby for Rolls-Royce, which weighed 27 tonnes and was around 8 feet (2.4 m) high, 8 feet (2.4 m) wide and 35 feet (11 m) long, with a 63-inch (1,600 mm) lens made by <a href="/wiki/Cooke_Optics" title="Cooke Optics">Cooke Apochromatic</a>. Cooke Optics and <a href="/wiki/Taylor-Hobson" class="mw-redirect" title="Taylor-Hobson">Taylor-Hobson</a> were major supplier of lenses for Hollywood; <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars" title="Star Wars">Star Wars</a></i> was filmed with their lenses, filmed in England. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Horace_W._Lee&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Horace W. Lee (page does not exist)">Horace W. Lee</a> invented the inverted telephoto lens (known as the <a href="/wiki/Ang%C3%A9nieux_retrofocus" title="Angénieux retrofocus">Angénieux retrofocus</a>) in 1931, lengthening the back <a href="/wiki/Focal_length" title="Focal length">focal length</a> of the camera for the 1930s <a href="/wiki/Technicolor" title="Technicolor">Technicolor</a> Process and for <a href="/wiki/Vignetting" title="Vignetting">vignetting</a>. </p><p><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Warmisham&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arthur Warmisham (page does not exist)">Arthur Warmisham</a> of Taylor & Hobson invented the first non-telescopic 35 mm <a href="/wiki/Zoom_lens" title="Zoom lens">zoom lens</a>, the Cooke Varo 40– 120mm Lens, in a camera manufactured by <a href="/wiki/Bell_%26_Howell" title="Bell & Howell">Bell & Howell</a> of the US. The popular 35 mm <a href="/wiki/Eyemo" title="Eyemo">Eyemo</a> film camera came with Cooke lenses. Much of World War II aerial photography, where definition was important, was through Cooke lenses, due to their <a href="/wiki/Apochromat" title="Apochromat">Apochromatic process</a>. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Cooke Speed Panchro lenses were the most popular choice for cinema films, then from the 1970s their Varotal zoom lens, which would win <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gordon_Henry_Cook&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gordon Henry Cook (page does not exist)">Gordon Henry Cook</a> the 1988 <a href="/wiki/Gordon_E._Sawyer_Award" title="Gordon E. Sawyer Award">Gordon E. Sawyer Award</a> at the Oscars. <a href="/wiki/Harold_Hopkins_(physicist)" title="Harold Hopkins (physicist)">Harold Hopkins (physicist)</a>, of Leicester, also did important work on the zoom lens (he largely invented it) and <a href="/wiki/Optical_fiber" title="Optical fiber">fibre-optics</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/J._P._Knight" title="J. P. Knight">J. P. Knight</a> of Nottingham is credited with inventing green and red <a href="/wiki/Traffic_lights" class="mw-redirect" title="Traffic lights">traffic lights</a>, installed in London on 9 December 1868, but these lasted only three weeks; traffic lights would be introduced only from the 1920s, again in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> (from an American-led design scheme). The first modern-day traffic lights were installed in <a href="/wiki/Piccadilly" title="Piccadilly">Piccadilly</a> from August 1926. <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Purnell_Hooley" title="Edgar Purnell Hooley">Edgar Purnell Hooley</a>, a Nottinghamshire surveyor, in 1901 was in Denby and found a stretch of <a href="/wiki/Road_surface" title="Road surface">road surface</a> that was smooth from an accidental leak of <a href="/wiki/Tar" title="Tar">tar</a> over the surface. He patented a process of mixing tar with chipped stones in 1902, forming <a href="/wiki/Tarmacadam" title="Tarmacadam">Tarmac</a>, a name which he patented. Radcliffe Road (A6011) in <a href="/wiki/West_Bridgford" title="West Bridgford">West Bridgford</a> in 1902 was the first tarmac road (5 miles or 8.0 kilometres long) in the world. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Mettoy" title="Mettoy">Mettoy</a> was a famous firm in the <a href="/wiki/St._James_End,_Northampton" title="St. James End, Northampton">St James</a> area of Northampton, which from 1933 produced <a href="/wiki/Corgi_Toys" title="Corgi Toys">Corgi</a> toys (mostly made in <a href="/wiki/Swansea" title="Swansea">Swansea</a> and designed in Northampton), and in the 1970s it made the <a href="/wiki/Space_hopper" title="Space hopper">space hopper</a>; the company collapsed in 1983, moving to Swansea. In Leicestershire was <a href="/wiki/Palitoy" title="Palitoy">Palitoy</a>, another world-famous firm in Coalville; <a href="/wiki/General_Mills" title="General Mills">General Mills</a> bought it in 1968, but production ceased in 1984 and the site was closed by <a href="/wiki/Hasbro" title="Hasbro">Hasbro</a> in 1994. <a href="/wiki/Pedigree_Dolls_%26_Toys" title="Pedigree Dolls & Toys">Pedigree Dolls & Toys</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sindy" title="Sindy">Sindy</a>) was in <a href="/wiki/Wellingborough" title="Wellingborough">Wellingborough</a>, closing in 1982. The first plastic <a href="/wiki/Keep_case" title="Keep case">DVD case</a> was made in Corby by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Amaray&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Amaray (page does not exist)">Amaray</a>. Britain's first out-of-town shopping centre was opened in November 1964 by GEM at West Bridgford, on a site now owned by <a href="/wiki/ASDA" class="mw-redirect" title="ASDA">ASDA</a>. </p><p>Much <a href="/wiki/Integrated_circuit" title="Integrated circuit">integrated circuit</a> and semiconductor research was carried out by <a href="/wiki/Plessey" title="Plessey">Plessey</a> at <a href="/wiki/Plessey_Research_Caswell" class="mw-redirect" title="Plessey Research Caswell">Caswell</a> near Towcester, ahead of much of what was being achieved in America by <a href="/wiki/Jack_Kilby" title="Jack Kilby">Jack Kilby</a>; Plessey invented a model of the integrated circuit in 1957. Caswell was later a site for manufacturing <a href="/wiki/Monolithic_microwave_integrated_circuit" title="Monolithic microwave integrated circuit">monolithic microwave integrated circuits</a> in the 1990s by <a href="/wiki/Marconi_plc" class="mw-redirect" title="Marconi plc">Marconi</a>. On 15 December 1966, the first electronic telephone exchange in Europe opened at <a href="/wiki/Ambergate" title="Ambergate">Ambergate</a> in Derbyshire. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Torksey" title="Torksey">Torksey</a> <a href="/wiki/Torksey_railway_station" title="Torksey railway station">railway viaduct</a>, built across the Trent in 1849, is considered to be the first <a href="/wiki/Box_girder_bridge" title="Box girder bridge">box girder bridge</a>, designed by <a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Fowler,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet">Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet</a>. The tallest freestanding structure in the region is the chimney of <a href="/wiki/West_Burton_power_stations" title="West Burton power stations">West Burton power station</a> (north Nottinghamshire) at 200 m (656 ft). <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nottingham_Combined_Heating_and_Power_Scheme&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nottingham Combined Heating and Power Scheme (page does not exist)">Nottingham Combined Heating and Power Scheme</a> is the largest <a href="/wiki/District_heating" title="District heating">district heating</a> system in the UK, centred on the Eastcroft incinerator, opened in 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_World_War">Second World War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Second World War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II" title="Strategic bombing during World War II">Strategic bombing during World War II</a></div> <p>Most of the region was protected by a solitary RAF station, <a href="/wiki/RAF_Digby" title="RAF Digby">RAF Digby</a> near <a href="/wiki/Sleaford" title="Sleaford">Sleaford</a>, part of <a href="/wiki/No._12_Group_RAF" title="No. 12 Group RAF">No. 12 Group RAF</a> and controlled from <a href="/wiki/RAF_Watnall" title="RAF Watnall">RAF Watnall</a>. Within the East Midlands, only Nottingham was <a href="/wiki/Nottingham_Blitz" title="Nottingham Blitz">heavily bombed</a> during the Second World War's <a href="/wiki/The_Blitz" title="The Blitz">Blitz</a>, due to the presence of a large <a href="/wiki/Royal_Ordnance" title="Royal Ordnance">Royal Ordnance</a> <a href="/wiki/ROF_Nottingham" title="ROF Nottingham">factory</a>. However, much of the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Ruhr" title="Battle of the Ruhr">aerial obliteration</a> of Germany was directed from the region, with two bomber groups based in <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a> (<a href="/wiki/No._1_Group_RAF" title="No. 1 Group RAF">No.1</a> and <a href="/wiki/No._5_Group_RAF" title="No. 5 Group RAF">No.5</a>), and a few squadrons in South Nottinghamshire. The proliferation of Second World War airfields in Lincolnshire has led to it being known as Bomber County. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Regional_governance">Regional governance</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Regional governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Update plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Update" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg/42px-Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg/63px-Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg/84px-Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article needs to be <b>updated</b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2023</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The current government office region was created in 1994. Government funding decisions moved from <a href="/wiki/Melton_Mowbray" title="Melton Mowbray">Melton Mowbray</a> (the <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Regional_Assembly" title="East Midlands Regional Assembly">East Midlands Regional Assembly</a>) to Nottingham (the <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Development_Agency" title="East Midlands Development Agency">East Midlands Development Agency</a>) in April 2010. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:East_Midlands_population_pyramid_2020.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/East_Midlands_population_pyramid_2020.svg/218px-East_Midlands_population_pyramid_2020.svg.png" decoding="async" width="218" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/East_Midlands_population_pyramid_2020.svg/327px-East_Midlands_population_pyramid_2020.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/East_Midlands_population_pyramid_2020.svg/436px-East_Midlands_population_pyramid_2020.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3189" data-file-height="2541" /></a><figcaption>Population pyramid in 2020</figcaption></figure> <p>For <a href="/wiki/Teenage_pregnancy" title="Teenage pregnancy">teenage pregnancy</a> rates in the region, Nottingham is the top-tier authority. Of the council districts, <a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Corby" title="Borough of Corby">Corby</a> has the highest rate. Of the top-tier authorities, Rutland has the lowest rate for any district in England. The council district with the lowest rate is <a href="/wiki/South_Northamptonshire" title="South Northamptonshire">South Northamptonshire</a>, although it has a rate greater than that of Rutland. Rutland has the highest <a href="/wiki/Total_fertility_rate" title="Total fertility rate">total fertility rate</a> for <a href="/w/index.php?title=Total_fertility_rate_in_England_by_county/unitary_authority&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Total fertility rate in England by county/unitary authority (page does not exist)">British counties</a> (top-tier authorities). The <a href="/wiki/Boston_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston (borough)">borough of Boston</a> has the highest TFR for district councils. </p><p>The region has the second-lowest overall population density in England (after <a href="/wiki/South_West_England" title="South West England">South West England</a>), eased by the <a href="/wiki/List_of_English_counties_by_population" class="mw-redirect" title="List of English counties by population">low population density</a> of <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rutland" title="Rutland">Rutland</a>. In 2007, the region had a lower percentage of degree-educated people than the English average.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of the region's population, 29.5 per cent live in rural areas. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ethnicity">Ethnicity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Ethnicity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Ethnic Group </th> <th colspan="2">1981 estimations<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th colspan="2">1991<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th colspan="2">2001<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th colspan="2">2011<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th colspan="2">2021<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th></tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/White_people_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="White people in the United Kingdom">White</a>: Total </th> <th>3,598,625 </th> <th>96.2% </th> <th>3,765,389 </th> <th>95.2% </th> <th>3,900,380 </th> <th>93.48% </th> <th>4,046,356 </th> <th>89.26% </th> <th>4,179,774 </th> <th>85.7% </th></tr> <tr> <td>White: <a href="/wiki/White_British" title="White British">British</a> </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>3,807,731 </td> <td>91.26% </td> <td>3,871,146 </td> <td>85.39% </td> <td>3,882,390 </td> <td>79.6% </td></tr> <tr> <td>White: <a href="/wiki/White_Irish" title="White Irish">Irish</a> </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>35,478 </td> <td>0.85% </td> <td>28,676 </td> <td>0.63% </td> <td>27,130 </td> <td>0.6% </td></tr> <tr> <td>White: <a href="/wiki/White_Gypsy_or_Irish_Traveller" class="mw-redirect" title="White Gypsy or Irish Traveller">Gypsy or Irish Traveller</a><sup id="cite_ref-auto_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>3,418 </td> <td>– </td> <td>4,620 </td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td>White: Roma </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>7,196 </td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td>White: <a href="/wiki/Other_White" title="Other White">Other</a> </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>57,171 </td> <td>1.37% </td> <td>143,116 </td> <td>3.15% </td> <td>258,438 </td> <td>5.3% </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/British_Asian" class="mw-redirect" title="British Asian">Asian or Asian British</a>: Total </th> <th>– </th> <th>– </th> <th>135,257 </th> <th>3.4% </th> <th>181,846 </th> <th>4.35% </th> <th>293,423 </th> <th>6.47% </th> <th>391,103 </th> <th>8% </th></tr> <tr> <td>Asian or Asian British: <a href="/wiki/British_Indians" title="British Indians">Indian</a> </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>98,859 </td> <td> </td> <td>122,347 </td> <td>2.93% </td> <td>168,928 </td> <td>3.72% </td> <td>229,831 </td> <td>4.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Asian or Asian British: <a href="/wiki/British_Pakistanis" title="British Pakistanis">Pakistani</a> </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>17,407 </td> <td> </td> <td>27,859 </td> <td>0.66% </td> <td>48,940 </td> <td>1.07% </td> <td>71,038 </td> <td>1.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Asian or Asian British: <a href="/wiki/British_Bangladeshis" title="British Bangladeshis">Bangladeshi</a> </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>4,161 </td> <td> </td> <td>6,928 </td> <td>0.16% </td> <td>13,258 </td> <td>0.29% </td> <td>20,980 </td> <td>0.4% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Asian or Asian British: <a href="/wiki/British_Chinese" title="British Chinese">Chinese</a><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>7,588 </td> <td> </td> <td>12,900 </td> <td>0.3% </td> <td>24,404 </td> <td>0.53% </td> <td>22,973 </td> <td>0.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Asian or Asian British: Other Asian </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>7,242 </td> <td> </td> <td>11,812 </td> <td>0.28% </td> <td>37,893 </td> <td>0.83% </td> <td>46,281 </td> <td>0.9% </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Black_British_people" title="Black British people">Black or Black British</a>: Total </th> <th>– </th> <th>– </th> <th>38,566 </th> <th>1% </th> <th>39,477 </th> <th>0.94% </th> <th>81,484 </th> <th>1.79% </th> <th>129,986 </th> <th>2.6% </th></tr> <tr> <td>Black or Black British: <a href="/wiki/Black_British_people" title="Black British people">African</a> </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>3,467 </td> <td> </td> <td>9,186 </td> <td>0.22% </td> <td>41,768 </td> <td>0.92% </td> <td>83,161 </td> <td>1.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Black or Black British: <a href="/wiki/British_African-Caribbean_people" title="British African-Caribbean people">Caribbean</a> </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>24,431 </td> <td> </td> <td>26,671 </td> <td>0.63% </td> <td>28,913 </td> <td>0.63% </td> <td>30,828 </td> <td>0.6% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Black or Black British: <a href="/wiki/Classification_of_ethnicity_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom">Other Black</a> </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>10,668 </td> <td> </td> <td>3,620 </td> <td>– </td> <td>10,803 </td> <td>0.23% </td> <td>15,997 </td> <td>0.3% </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Mixed_(United_Kingdom_ethnicity_category)" title="Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)">Mixed</a>: Total </th> <th>– </th> <th>– </th> <th>– </th> <th>– </th> <th>43,148 </th> <th>1.03% </th> <th>86,224 </th> <th>1.9% </th> <th>117,247 </th> <th>2.4% </th></tr> <tr> <td>Mixed: White and Black Caribbean </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>20,657 </td> <td>0.49% </td> <td>40,404 </td> <td>0.89% </td> <td>46,400 </td> <td>1.0% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Mixed: White and Black African </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>3,429 </td> <td>– </td> <td>8,814 </td> <td>0.19% </td> <td>14,341 </td> <td>0.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Mixed: White and Asian </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>11,176 </td> <td>0.26% </td> <td>21,688 </td> <td>0.47% </td> <td>30,803 </td> <td>0.6% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Mixed: Other Mixed </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>7,886 </td> <td>0.18% </td> <td>15,318 </td> <td>0.33% </td> <td>25,703 </td> <td>0.5% </td></tr> <tr> <th>Other: Total </th> <th>– </th> <th>– </th> <th>14,160 </th> <th>0.4% </th> <th>7,345 </th> <th>0.17% </th> <th>25,735 </th> <th>0.56% </th> <th>61,944 </th> <th>1.3% </th></tr> <tr> <td>Other: Arab<sup id="cite_ref-auto_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>9,746 </td> <td>0.21% </td> <td>13,360 </td> <td>0.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Other: Any other ethnic group </td> <td>– </td> <td>– </td> <td>14,160 </td> <td>0.4% </td> <td>7,345 </td> <td>0.17% </td> <td>15,989 </td> <td>0.35% </td> <td>48,584 </td> <td>1.0% </td></tr> <tr> <th>Non-White: Total </th> <th>140,991 </th> <th>3.8% </th> <th>187,983 </th> <th>4.8% </th> <th>271,816 </th> <th>6.5% </th> <th>486,866 </th> <th>10.7% </th> <th>700,280 </th> <th>14.3% </th></tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Total </th> <th>3,739,616 </th> <th>100% </th> <th>3,953,372 </th> <th>100% </th> <th>4,172,196 </th> <th>100% </th> <th>4,533,222 </th> <th>100% </th> <th>4,880,054 </th> <th>100% </th></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output 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class="reference-text">New category created for the 2011 census</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In 2001, listed under the 'Chinese or other ethnic group' heading.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Religion in the East Midlands </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Religion </th> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/2021_United_Kingdom_census" title="2021 United Kingdom census">2021</a><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_census" title="2011 United Kingdom census">2011</a><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_census" title="2001 United Kingdom census">2001</a><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th>Number </th> <th><abbr title="percentage">%</abbr> </th> <th>Number </th> <th><abbr title="percentage">%</abbr> </th> <th>Number </th> <th><abbr title="percentage">%</abbr> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#E0E0FF;"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Christianity_in_Britain" title="History of Christianity in Britain">Christianity</a> </td> <td>2,214,151 </td> <td>45.4% </td> <td>2,666,172 </td> <td>58.8% </td> <td>3,003,475 </td> <td>72.0% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#E0FFD0;"><a href="/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Islam in the United Kingdom">Islam</a> </td> <td>210,766 </td> <td>4.3% </td> <td>140,649 </td> <td>3.1% </td> <td>70,224 </td> <td>1.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#FFE0C0;"><a href="/wiki/Hinduism_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Hinduism in the United Kingdom">Hinduism</a> </td> <td>120,345 </td> <td>2.5% </td> <td>89,723 </td> <td>2.0% </td> <td>66,710 </td> <td>1.6% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#F0F0C0;"><a href="/wiki/Sikhism_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Sikhism in the United Kingdom">Sikhism</a> </td> <td>53,950 </td> <td>1.1% </td> <td>44,335 </td> <td>1.0% </td> <td>33,551 </td> <td>0.8% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#FFFFC0;"><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Buddhism in the United Kingdom">Buddhism</a> </td> <td>14,521 </td> <td>0.3% </td> <td>12,672 </td> <td>0.3% </td> <td>7,541 </td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#E0F0FF;"><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="History of the Jews in the United Kingdom">Judaism</a> </td> <td>4,313 </td> <td>0.09% </td> <td>4,254 </td> <td>0.09% </td> <td>4,075 </td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#F0E0F0;">Other religion </td> <td>24,813 </td> <td>0.5% </td> <td>17,918 </td> <td>0.4% </td> <td>9,863 </td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#F5F5F5;"><a href="/wiki/Irreligion_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Irreligion in the United Kingdom">No religion</a> </td> <td>1,950,354 </td> <td>40.0% </td> <td>1,248,056 </td> <td>27.5% </td> <td>664,845 </td> <td>15.9% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#DCDCDC;">Religion not stated </td> <td>286,841 </td> <td>5.9% </td> <td>309,443 </td> <td>6.8% </td> <td>311,890 </td> <td>7.5% </td></tr> <tr> <th>Total population </th> <th><b>4,880,054</b> </th> <th><b>100%</b> </th> <th><b>4,533,222</b> </th> <th><b>100%</b> </th> <th><b>4,172,174</b> </th> <th><b>100%</b> </th></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Social_deprivation">Social deprivation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Social deprivation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:University_Park_MMB_X1_East_Midlands_Conference_Centre.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/University_Park_MMB_X1_East_Midlands_Conference_Centre.jpg/220px-University_Park_MMB_X1_East_Midlands_Conference_Centre.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/University_Park_MMB_X1_East_Midlands_Conference_Centre.jpg/330px-University_Park_MMB_X1_East_Midlands_Conference_Centre.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/University_Park_MMB_X1_East_Midlands_Conference_Centre.jpg/440px-University_Park_MMB_X1_East_Midlands_Conference_Centre.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4086" data-file-height="2721" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/De_Vere_(hotel_operator)" title="De Vere (hotel operator)">De Veres Venues</a> East Midlands Conference Centre at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Nottingham" title="University of Nottingham">University of Nottingham</a> in September 2012 </figcaption></figure> <p>The region as a whole is less deprived than the <a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(region)" title="West Midlands (region)">West Midlands</a> and regions in the <a href="/wiki/North_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="North of England">North of England</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By measurement of <a href="/wiki/Super_Output_Areas" class="mw-redirect" title="Super Output Areas">Lower Layer Super Output Areas</a>, the East Midlands has more in common with the South of England (except London) than the North, in that it has more areas in the 20 per cent least deprived areas than the 20 per cent most deprived areas, but less so than regions in <a href="/wiki/Southern_England" title="Southern England">Southern England</a>. This has been explained by academic statisticians, who claim the area straddles the <a href="/w/index.php?title=North%E2%80%93south_divide&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="North–south divide (page does not exist)">north–south divide</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The region does not show typical economic characteristics of Northern England (which the West Midlands does), although it is not as affluent as large parts of the South of England. Economically, the East Midlands bears a similarity to <a href="/wiki/South_West_England" title="South West England">South West England</a>. </p><p>In March 2011, the average <a href="/wiki/Jobseeker%27s_Allowance" title="Jobseeker's Allowance">unemployment claimant</a> count for the region was 3.6 per cent. Nottingham and Leicester were the highest with 5.8 per cent each. Next were <a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Corby" title="Borough of Corby">Corby</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_England" title="Lincoln, England">Lincoln</a> with 4.9 per cent. The lowest were Rutland and <a href="/wiki/South_Northamptonshire" title="South Northamptonshire">South Northamptonshire</a> with 1.4 per cent each, and <a href="/wiki/Harborough_District" title="Harborough District">Harborough</a>, with 1.6 per cent.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Elections">Elections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:United_Kingdom_General_Election_2017_Results_Map_(East_Midlands).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/United_Kingdom_General_Election_2017_Results_Map_%28East_Midlands%29.svg/220px-United_Kingdom_General_Election_2017_Results_Map_%28East_Midlands%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="310" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/United_Kingdom_General_Election_2017_Results_Map_%28East_Midlands%29.svg/330px-United_Kingdom_General_Election_2017_Results_Map_%28East_Midlands%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/United_Kingdom_General_Election_2017_Results_Map_%28East_Midlands%29.svg/440px-United_Kingdom_General_Election_2017_Results_Map_%28East_Midlands%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="869" data-file-height="1225" /></a><figcaption>General election results in 2017</figcaption></figure> <p>The East Midlands is represented by forty-seven <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament (UK)">Members of Parliament</a> (MPs), a gain of one after <a href="/wiki/2023_Periodic_Review_of_Westminster_constituencies" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies">the most recent Periodic Review</a>. At the <a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024 general election</a>, the region elected twenty-nine <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> MPs, fifteen <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservatives</a>, two from <a href="/wiki/Reform_UK" title="Reform UK">Reform UK</a> and one <a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">independent</a>. Labour Party MPs were primarily elected in Derbyshire (where they won all eleven seats) and Nottinghamshire, whilst Conservatives were mostly elected in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire. </p><p>In 2009, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire county councils changed control from Labour to Conservative. From 1993 to 2005, Northampton was controlled by Labour, and is now controlled by the Conservatives. Lincolnshire and Leicestershire have historically been Conservative controlled and hence all the main county councils are now Conservative controlled. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2" colspan="2" align="center">Party </th> <th colspan="5">Seats won at each general election </th></tr> <tr> <th valign="top"><a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010</a> </th> <th valign="top"><a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">2015</a> </th> <th valign="top"><a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2017 United Kingdom general election">2017</a> </th> <th valign="top"><a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2019</a> </th> <th valign="top"><a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amber_Valley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Amber Valley (UK Parliament constituency)">Amber Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bassetlaw_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bassetlaw (UK Parliament constituency)">Bassetlaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolsover_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bolsover (UK Parliament constituency)">Bolsover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broxtowe_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Broxtowe (UK Parliament constituency)">Broxtowe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chesterfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Chesterfield (UK Parliament constituency)">Chesterfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corby_and_East_Northamptonshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Corby and East Northamptonshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Corby and East Northamptonshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derby_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Derby North (UK Parliament constituency)">Derby North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derby_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Derby South (UK Parliament constituency)">Derby South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derbyshire_Dales_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Derbyshire Dales (UK Parliament constituency)">Derbyshire Dales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erewash_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Erewash (UK Parliament constituency)">Erewash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gedling_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Gedling (UK Parliament constituency)">Gedling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/High_Peak_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="High Peak (UK Parliament constituency)">High Peak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kettering_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kettering (UK Parliament constituency)">Kettering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leicester_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Leicester West (UK Parliament constituency)">Leicester West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency)">Lincoln</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loughborough_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Loughborough (UK Parliament constituency)">Loughborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mansfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Mansfield (UK Parliament constituency)">Mansfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mid_Derbyshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Mid Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Mid Derbyshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_East_Derbyshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North East Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)">North East Derbyshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_West_Leicestershire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North West Leicestershire (UK Parliament constituency)">North West Leicestershire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northampton_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Northampton North (UK Parliament constituency)">Northampton North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northampton_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Northampton South (UK Parliament constituency)">Northampton South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nottingham_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Nottingham East (UK Parliament constituency)">Nottingham East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nottingham_North_and_Kimberley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Nottingham North and Kimberley (UK Parliament constituency)">Nottingham North and Kimberley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nottingham_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Nottingham South (UK Parliament constituency)">Nottingham South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rushcliffe_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Rushcliffe (UK Parliament constituency)">Rushcliffe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherwood_Forest_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Sherwood Forest (UK Parliament constituency)">Sherwood Forest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Derbyshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)">South Derbyshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wellingborough_and_Rushden_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wellingborough and Rushden (UK Parliament constituency)">Wellingborough and Rushden</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> (15)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daventry_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Daventry (UK Parliament constituency)">Daventry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gainsborough_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Gainsborough (UK Parliament constituency)">Gainsborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grantham_and_Bourne_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Grantham and Bourne (UK Parliament constituency)">Grantham and Bourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harborough,_Oadby_and_Wigston_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Harborough, Oadby and Wigston (UK Parliament constituency)">Harborough, Oadby and Wigston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hinckley_and_Bosworth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hinckley and Bosworth (UK Parliament constituency)">Hinckley and Bosworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leicester_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Leicester East (UK Parliament constituency)">Leicester East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louth_and_Horncastle_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Louth and Horncastle (UK Parliament constituency)">Louth and Horncastle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melton_and_Syston_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Melton and Syston (UK Parliament constituency)">Melton and Syston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mid_Leicestershire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Mid Leicestershire (UK Parliament constituency)">Mid Leicestershire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newark_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Newark (UK Parliament constituency)">Newark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutland_and_Stamford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Rutland and Stamford (UK Parliament constituency)">Rutland and Stamford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Sleaford and North Hykeham (UK Parliament constituency)">Sleaford and North Hykeham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Holland_and_The_Deepings_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Holland and The Deepings (UK Parliament constituency)">South Holland and The Deepings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Leicestershire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Leicestershire (UK Parliament constituency)">South Leicestershire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Northamptonshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Northamptonshire (UK Parliament constituency)">South Northamptonshire</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Reform_UK" title="Reform UK">Reform UK</a> (2)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ashfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ashfield (UK Parliament constituency)">Ashfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boston_and_Skegness_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Boston and Skegness (UK Parliament constituency)">Boston and Skegness</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> (1)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leicester_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Leicester South (UK Parliament constituency)">Leicester South</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="MEPs">MEPs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: MEPs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_(European_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Midlands (European Parliament constituency)">East Midlands (European Parliament constituency)</a></div> <p>The East Midlands was a five-member constituency for the <a href="/wiki/European_Parliament" title="European Parliament">European Parliament</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Regions">Regions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Regions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eurostat_NUTS">Eurostat NUTS</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Eurostat NUTS"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Eurostat" title="Eurostat">Eurostat</a> <a href="/wiki/Nomenclature_of_Territorial_Units_for_Statistics" title="Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics">Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics</a> (NUTS), the East Midlands form a level-1 NUTS region, coded "UKF", which is subdivided as follows: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr style="background:gold; text-align:left;"> <th>NUTS 1 </th> <th>Code </th> <th>NUTS 2 </th> <th>Code </th> <th>NUTS 3 </th> <th>Code </th></tr> <tr> <td>East Midlands </td> <td>UKF </td> <td rowspan="6"><a href="/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire" title="Nottinghamshire">Nottinghamshire</a> </td> <td rowspan="6">UKF1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Derby" title="Derby">Derby</a> </td> <td>UKF11 </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="10" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:NUTS_3_regions_of_the_East_Midlands_2010_map.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/NUTS_3_regions_of_the_East_Midlands_2010_map.svg/200px-NUTS_3_regions_of_the_East_Midlands_2010_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="237" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/NUTS_3_regions_of_the_East_Midlands_2010_map.svg/300px-NUTS_3_regions_of_the_East_Midlands_2010_map.svg.png 1.5x, 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</td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a> </td> <td>UKF14 </td></tr> <tr> <td>North Nottinghamshire (<a href="/wiki/Ashfield,_Nottinghamshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashfield, Nottinghamshire">Ashfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bassetlaw_District" title="Bassetlaw District">Bassetlaw</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mansfield_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mansfield (district)">Mansfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newark_and_Sherwood" title="Newark and Sherwood">Newark and Sherwood</a>) </td> <td>UKF15 </td></tr> <tr> <td>South Nottinghamshire (<a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Broxtowe" title="Borough of Broxtowe">Broxtowe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Gedling" title="Borough of Gedling">Gedling</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rushcliffe" title="Rushcliffe">Rushcliffe</a>) </td> <td>UKF16 </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Leicestershire" title="Leicestershire">Leicestershire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rutland" title="Rutland">Rutland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a> </td> <td rowspan="4">UKF2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a> </td> <td>UKF21 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Leicestershire" title="Leicestershire">Leicestershire</a> CC and <a href="/wiki/Rutland" title="Rutland">Rutland</a> </td> <td>UKF22 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Northamptonshire" title="West Northamptonshire">West Northamptonshire</a> </td> <td>UKF24 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/North_Northamptonshire" title="North Northamptonshire">North Northamptonshire</a> </td> <td>UKF25 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a> </td> <td>UKF3 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a> CC </td> <td>UKF30 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Local_government">Local government</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Local government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The official <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_England" title="Regions of England">region</a> consists of the following subdivisions: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Map</th> <th>Ceremonial county</th> <th>Shire county<br />/unitary</th> <th>Districts </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="10"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:East_Midlands_counties_2009_map.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/East_Midlands_counties_2009_map.svg/250px-East_Midlands_counties_2009_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="297" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/East_Midlands_counties_2009_map.svg/375px-East_Midlands_counties_2009_map.svg.png 1.5x, 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<td colspan="2">2. <a href="/wiki/Derby" title="Derby">Derby</a> U.A. </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire" title="Nottinghamshire">Nottinghamshire</a></td> <td>3. Nottinghamshire</td> <td><i>a</i>) <a href="/wiki/Rushcliffe" title="Rushcliffe">Rushcliffe</a>, <i>b</i>) <a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Broxtowe" title="Borough of Broxtowe">Broxtowe</a>, <i>c</i>) <a href="/wiki/Ashfield,_Nottinghamshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashfield, Nottinghamshire">Ashfield</a>, <i>d</i>) <a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Gedling" title="Borough of Gedling">Gedling</a>, <i>e</i>) <a href="/wiki/Newark_and_Sherwood" title="Newark and Sherwood">Newark and Sherwood</a>, <i>f</i>) <a href="/wiki/Mansfield_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mansfield (district)">Mansfield</a>, <i>g</i>) <a href="/wiki/Bassetlaw_District" title="Bassetlaw District">Bassetlaw</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">4. <a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a> U.A. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a><br /><small>(part only)</small></td> <td>5. Lincolnshire</td> <td><i>a</i>) <a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_England" title="Lincoln, England">Lincoln</a>, <i>b</i>) <a href="/wiki/North_Kesteven" title="North Kesteven">North Kesteven</a>, <i>c</i>) <a href="/wiki/South_Kesteven" title="South Kesteven">South Kesteven</a>, <i>d</i>) <a href="/wiki/South_Holland,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="South Holland, England">South Holland</a>, <i>e</i>) <a href="/wiki/Boston_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston (borough)">Boston</a>, <i>f</i>) <a href="/wiki/East_Lindsey" title="East Lindsey">East Lindsey</a>, <i>g</i>) <a href="/wiki/West_Lindsey" title="West Lindsey">West Lindsey</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Leicestershire" title="Leicestershire">Leicestershire</a></td> <td>6. Leicestershire</td> <td><i>a</i>) <a href="/wiki/Charnwood_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Charnwood (borough)">Charnwood</a>, <i>b</i>) <a href="/wiki/Melton_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Melton (borough)">Melton</a>, <i>c</i>) <a href="/wiki/Harborough_District" title="Harborough District">Harborough</a>, <i>d</i>) <a href="/wiki/Oadby_and_Wigston" title="Oadby and Wigston">Oadby and Wigston</a>, <i>e</i>) <a href="/wiki/Blaby_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Blaby (district)">Blaby</a>, <i>f</i>) <a href="/wiki/Hinckley_and_Bosworth" title="Hinckley and Bosworth">Hinckley and Bosworth</a>, <i>g</i>) <a href="/wiki/North_West_Leicestershire" title="North West Leicestershire">North West Leicestershire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">7. <a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a> U.A. </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">8. <a href="/wiki/Rutland" title="Rutland">Rutland</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">9. <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a></td> <td colspan="2"><i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, <i>c</i>) <a href="/wiki/West_Northamptonshire" title="West Northamptonshire">West Northamptonshire</a> U.A. </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><i>d</i>, <i>e</i>, <i>f</i>, <i>g</i>) <a href="/wiki/North_Northamptonshire" title="North Northamptonshire">North Northamptonshire</a> U.A. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Regional_Profile_of_the_East_Midlands.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Regional_Profile_of_the_East_Midlands.png/220px-Regional_Profile_of_the_East_Midlands.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="446" class="mw-file-element" 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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.<br /><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22East+Midlands%22">"East Midlands"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22East+Midlands%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22East+Midlands%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22East+Midlands%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22East+Midlands%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22East+Midlands%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">October 2017</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Manufacturing_Advisory_Service" title="Manufacturing Advisory Service">Manufacturing Advisory Service</a> for the region was based on the <a href="/wiki/A606_road" title="A606 road">A606</a> in <a href="/wiki/Melton_Mowbray" title="Melton Mowbray">Melton Mowbray</a>, next to <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Councils" title="East Midlands Councils">East Midlands Councils</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Manufacturing">Manufacturing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Manufacturing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:US_Navy_070804-N-1745W-122_A_Sailor_assigned_to_Aircraft_Intermediate_Maintenance_Department_(AIMD)_tests_an_aircraft_jet_engine_for_defects_while_performing_Jet_Engine_Test_Instrumentation,_(JETI)_Certification-Engine_Runs.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/US_Navy_070804-N-1745W-122_A_Sailor_assigned_to_Aircraft_Intermediate_Maintenance_Department_%28AIMD%29_tests_an_aircraft_jet_engine_for_defects_while_performing_Jet_Engine_Test_Instrumentation%2C_%28JETI%29_Certification-Engine_Runs.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/US_Navy_070804-N-1745W-122_A_Sailor_assigned_to_Aircraft_Intermediate_Maintenance_Department_%28AIMD%29_tests_an_aircraft_jet_engine_for_defects_while_performing_Jet_Engine_Test_Instrumentation%2C_%28JETI%29_Certification-Engine_Runs.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/US_Navy_070804-N-1745W-122_A_Sailor_assigned_to_Aircraft_Intermediate_Maintenance_Department_%28AIMD%29_tests_an_aircraft_jet_engine_for_defects_while_performing_Jet_Engine_Test_Instrumentation%2C_%28JETI%29_Certification-Engine_Runs.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2100" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Jet_engine" title="Jet engine">jet engine</a> was built and <a href="/wiki/Power_Jets" title="Power Jets">developed</a> in the region</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2003, 23% of economic output in the East Midlands was in manufacturing, compared to 15% in the UK.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The date of the event predicted near this tag has passed. (February 2024)">needs update</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>For engineering, <a href="/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Holdings" title="Rolls-Royce Holdings">Rolls-Royce</a> (the world's second-largest maker of <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_engine" title="Aircraft engine">aircraft engines</a>) in <a href="/wiki/Sinfin" title="Sinfin">Sinfin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Marine_Power_Operations" class="mw-redirect" title="Rolls-Royce Marine Power Operations">Rolls-Royce Marine Power Operations</a> are both in Derby. <a href="/wiki/Ruston_(engine_builder)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ruston (engine builder)">Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery</a> (former <a href="/wiki/General_Electric_Company" title="General Electric Company">GEC</a>, then <a href="/wiki/Alstom" title="Alstom">Alstom</a>) make industrial <a href="/wiki/Gas_turbine" title="Gas turbine">gas turbines</a> in Lincoln, with a former division making aero-engine components now part of <a href="/wiki/Industria_de_Turbo_Propulsores" class="mw-redirect" title="Industria de Turbo Propulsores">ITP Engines</a>, based at <a href="/wiki/Whetstone,_Leicestershire" title="Whetstone, Leicestershire">Whetstone</a>, next door to <a href="/wiki/Hardinge,_Inc." title="Hardinge, Inc.">Hardinge</a> Machine Tools UK (former <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport_(machine_tool_brand)" title="Bridgeport (machine tool brand)">Bridgeport</a>). <a href="/wiki/Cytec_Industries" title="Cytec Industries">Cytec Industries</a> UK (former Uneco, owned since 2016 by <a href="/wiki/Solvay_SA" class="mw-redirect" title="Solvay SA">Solvay</a>) have a composites research centre in the south of Heanor. <a href="/wiki/Meggitt" title="Meggitt">Meggitt</a> Polymers & Composites (former Dunlop) are on the A512 in Shepshed, who make seals for aircraft. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Motorsport_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Motorsport in the United Kingdom">Motorsport in the United Kingdom</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Triumph_Motorcycles_Ltd" title="Triumph Motorcycles Ltd">Triumph Motorcycles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ultima_Sports" class="mw-redirect" title="Ultima Sports">Ultima Sports</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sports_car" title="Sports car">sports cars</a>) are in <a href="/wiki/Hinckley" title="Hinckley">Hinckley</a>. <a href="/wiki/Cummins_UK" title="Cummins UK">Cummins</a> make diesel engines in <a href="/wiki/Daventry" title="Daventry">Daventry</a>, and build <a href="/wiki/Alternating_current" title="Alternating current">AC</a> <a href="/wiki/Alternator" title="Alternator">generators</a> in <a href="/wiki/Stamford,_Lincolnshire" title="Stamford, Lincolnshire">Stamford</a>, with its spares division at Wellingborough (near Mahle). 80% of the world's <a href="/wiki/Formula_One" title="Formula One">Formula One</a> cars are made in Northamptonshire. At the north of Motorsport Valley, <a href="/wiki/Cosworth" title="Cosworth">Cosworth</a> and <a href="/wiki/MAHLE_Powertrain" title="MAHLE Powertrain">MAHLE Powertrain</a> (former Cosworth Technology before January 2005) are next to the Nene in Northampton, with an <a href="/wiki/Cylinder_block" class="mw-redirect" title="Cylinder block">engine block</a> plant off the <a href="/wiki/A509_road" title="A509 road">A509</a> in Wellingborough. <a href="/wiki/Force_India" title="Force India">Force India</a> and <a href="/wiki/Delta_Motorsport" title="Delta Motorsport">Delta Motorsport</a> are at <a href="/wiki/Silverstone" title="Silverstone">Silverstone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mercedes_AMG_High_Performance_Powertrains" title="Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains">Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains</a> is in <a href="/wiki/Brixworth" title="Brixworth">Brixworth</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_in_Formula_One" title="Mercedes-Benz in Formula One">Mercedes-Benz F1</a> at Brackley at the A43/<a href="/wiki/A422_road" title="A422 road">A422</a> roundabout. </p><p>Near Leicester, <a href="/wiki/Noble_Automotive" title="Noble Automotive">Noble</a> are in <a href="/wiki/Barwell" title="Barwell">Barwell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fenix_Automotive" title="Fenix Automotive">Fenix Automotive</a> in Braunstone. <a href="/wiki/Eibach_(company)" title="Eibach (company)">Eibach</a> UK (shock absorbers) is off the B581 in <a href="/wiki/Broughton_Astley" title="Broughton Astley">Broughton Astley</a>. <a href="/wiki/KTM" title="KTM">KTM</a> UK (high-performance motorcycles) is at Buckingham Industrial Estate in southeast Brackley next to the A43; to the west, next door over the <a href="/wiki/Banbury_to_Verney_Junction_Branch_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Banbury to Verney Junction Branch Line">former railway</a> was <a href="/wiki/Brawn_GP" title="Brawn GP">Brawn GP</a> (former <a href="/wiki/Honda_in_Formula_One" title="Honda in Formula One">Honda F1</a> before 2008) near the A422 roundabout in <a href="/wiki/Evenley" title="Evenley">Evenley</a>. <a href="/wiki/Van_Hool" title="Van Hool">Van Hool</a> UK (<a href="/wiki/Coachbuilder" title="Coachbuilder">coachwork</a>) is on Finedon Road Industrial Estate in Wellingborough.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Salvador_Caetano" title="Salvador Caetano">Caetano</a> UK is based near Coalville, a UK coachwork distributor for many coaches, often <a href="/wiki/National_Express_Coaches" title="National Express Coaches">National Express</a>. <a href="/wiki/AGC_Glass_Europe" title="AGC Glass Europe">AGC Automotive UK</a> make <a href="/wiki/Car_glass" class="mw-redirect" title="Car glass">automotive glass</a> (<a href="/wiki/Toughened_glass" class="mw-redirect" title="Toughened glass">tempered glass</a> and <a href="/wiki/Laminated_glass" title="Laminated glass">laminated glass</a>) on <a href="/wiki/Round_Spinney" title="Round Spinney">Round Spinney</a> Industrial Estate in the north of Northampton. <a href="/wiki/Plastic_Omnium" class="mw-redirect" title="Plastic Omnium">Plastic Omnium</a> Automotive make automotive exteriors in the west of Measham. Off the <a href="/wiki/A361_road" title="A361 road">A361</a> on a former <a href="/wiki/RAF_Chipping_Warden" title="RAF Chipping Warden">airfield</a> is a manufacturing site of <a href="/wiki/Lippstadt" title="Lippstadt">Lippstadt</a>-based <a href="/wiki/Hella_(company)" title="Hella (company)">Hella</a> UK (LED automobile lighting, and Europe's largest automobile lighting manufacturer) in <a href="/wiki/Chipping_Warden" title="Chipping Warden">Chipping Warden</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aston_le_Walls" title="Aston le Walls">Aston le Walls</a>, close to the Oxfordshire boundary. <a href="/wiki/Ilmor" title="Ilmor">Ilmor</a> is in Brixworth, and <a href="/wiki/Bowler_Offroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Bowler Offroad">Bowler Offroad</a> is in Belper. </p><p><a href="/wiki/JCB_(heavy_equipment_manufacturer)" title="JCB (heavy equipment manufacturer)">JCB</a> Power Systems is on an <a href="/wiki/RAF_Church_Broughton" title="RAF Church Broughton">old airfield</a> near <a href="/wiki/Foston,_Derbyshire" title="Foston, Derbyshire">Foston, Derbyshire</a> and nearby <a href="/wiki/Toyota_Manufacturing_UK" title="Toyota Manufacturing UK">Toyota Manufacturing UK</a> (TMUK) is on an <a href="/wiki/RAF_Burnaston" class="mw-redirect" title="RAF Burnaston">old airfield</a> at <a href="/wiki/Burnaston" title="Burnaston">Burnaston</a>, where its 3,000 employees make the <a href="/wiki/Toyota_Auris" title="Toyota Auris">Auris</a> and <a href="/wiki/Toyota_Avensis" title="Toyota Avensis">Avensis</a>. <a href="/wiki/Resonate_Group" title="Resonate Group">Resonate Group</a> (former DeltaRail Group) is in Derby, and train manufacturer <a href="/wiki/Bombardier_Transportation" title="Bombardier Transportation">Bombardier UK</a> (former <a href="/wiki/British_Rail_Engineering_Limited" title="British Rail Engineering Limited">British Rail Engineering Limited</a> before 1996 then <a href="/wiki/Adtranz" title="Adtranz">ABB Adtranz</a>) is at <a href="/wiki/Derby_Litchurch_Lane_Works" title="Derby Litchurch Lane Works">Derby Litchurch Lane Works</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Litchurch" title="Litchurch">Litchurch</a>; it built the <a href="/wiki/Bombardier_Incentro_AT6/5" title="Bombardier Incentro AT6/5">Nottingham Express Transit AT6/5 trams</a> in 2004, the <a href="/wiki/Bombardier_Electrostar" title="Bombardier Electrostar">Electrostar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bombardier_Turbostar" title="Bombardier Turbostar">Turbostar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bombardier_Aventra" class="mw-redirect" title="Bombardier Aventra">Aventra</a> fleets, and <a href="/wiki/London_Underground_rolling_stock" title="London Underground rolling stock">London Underground trains</a>. <a href="/wiki/APPH" title="APPH">APPH</a> (part of <a href="/wiki/BBA_Aviation" class="mw-redirect" title="BBA Aviation">BBA Aviation</a>) make aircraft <a href="/wiki/Landing_gear" title="Landing gear">landing gear</a> on the B6020 next to <a href="/wiki/Kirkby-in-Ashfield_railway_station" title="Kirkby-in-Ashfield railway station">Kirkby-in-Ashfield railway station</a>. <a href="/wiki/Raleigh_Bicycle_Company" title="Raleigh Bicycle Company">Raleigh Bicycle Company</a> is based in New <a href="/wiki/Eastwood,_Nottinghamshire" title="Eastwood, Nottinghamshire">Eastwood</a> next to the A610. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Essentra_Packaging" title="Essentra Packaging">Essentra Packaging</a> (former Payne) nearby in Giltbrook, next to A610 near the A6096/B6010 junction next to <a href="/wiki/IKEA" title="IKEA">IKEA</a>, makes <a href="/wiki/Tear_tape" title="Tear tape">tear tape</a>, owned by <a href="/wiki/Essentra" title="Essentra">Essentra</a>. <a href="/wiki/Giant_Bicycles" title="Giant Bicycles">Giant</a> UK (high performance bicycles) on the Charnwood Edge Business Park at the A46/A607 junction in <a href="/wiki/Cossington,_Leicestershire" title="Cossington, Leicestershire">Cossington</a> near the Midland Main Line and <a href="/wiki/River_Wreake" title="River Wreake">River Wreake</a>. <a href="/wiki/Mettler_Toledo" title="Mettler Toledo">Mettler Toledo</a> UK (<a href="/wiki/Beltweigher" title="Beltweigher">industrial weighing</a>) is in the west of Beaumont Leys. <a href="/wiki/Ferodo" title="Ferodo">Ferodo</a> is in <a href="/wiki/Chapel-en-le-Frith" title="Chapel-en-le-Frith">Chapel-en-le-Frith</a>, who have made <a href="/wiki/Brake_pad" title="Brake pad">brake pads</a> since its founder <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Frood" title="Herbert Frood">Herbert Frood</a> invented them in <a href="/wiki/Combs,_Derbyshire" title="Combs, Derbyshire">Combs</a> in 1897. <a href="/wiki/Carbolite" class="mw-redirect" title="Carbolite">Carbolite</a>, which makes industrial furnaces, is based near the B6049/A6187 junction in the <a href="/wiki/Hope_Valley,_Derbyshire" title="Hope Valley, Derbyshire">Hope Valley</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Harworth_Colliery_-_geograph.org.uk_-_104989.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Harworth_Colliery_-_geograph.org.uk_-_104989.jpg/220px-Harworth_Colliery_-_geograph.org.uk_-_104989.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Harworth_Colliery_-_geograph.org.uk_-_104989.jpg/330px-Harworth_Colliery_-_geograph.org.uk_-_104989.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Harworth_Colliery_-_geograph.org.uk_-_104989.jpg/440px-Harworth_Colliery_-_geograph.org.uk_-_104989.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="427" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/UK_Coal" title="UK Coal">UK Coal</a> (formerly RJB Mining) was based in <a href="/wiki/Styrrup" title="Styrrup">Styrrup</a> near <a href="/wiki/Harworth" title="Harworth">Harworth</a>. The north part of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire used to have many <a href="/wiki/Coal_mining" title="Coal mining">coal mines</a>, and the last two pits producing in Nottinghamshire were near <a href="/wiki/Market_Warsop" class="mw-redirect" title="Market Warsop">Market Warsop</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thoresby_Colliery" title="Thoresby Colliery">Ollerton</a> </figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/FKI_(company)" title="FKI (company)">FKI</a> who own <a href="/wiki/Brush_Electrical_Machines" title="Brush Electrical Machines">Brush Electrical Machines</a> is in Loughborough, home to the <a href="/wiki/Energy_Technologies_Institute" title="Energy Technologies Institute">Energy Technologies Institute</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Taylor_%26_Co" title="John Taylor & Co">John Taylor & Co</a>, which although entering <a href="/wiki/Administration_(law)" title="Administration (law)">administration</a> in 2009, is the largest <a href="/wiki/Bellfounding" title="Bellfounding">bell foundry</a> in the world. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Eco-Bat_Technologies&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eco-Bat Technologies (page does not exist)">Eco-Bat Technologies</a>, based in <a href="/wiki/South_Darley" title="South Darley">South Darley</a>, west of <a href="/wiki/Matlock,_Derbyshire" title="Matlock, Derbyshire">Matlock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Smelting" title="Smelting">smelt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire_lead_mining_history" title="Derbyshire lead mining history">mine lead</a>, and are the world's biggest producer of <a href="/wiki/Lead" title="Lead">lead</a>, and own eighteen sites across the world. <a href="/wiki/Scott_Bader" class="mw-redirect" title="Scott Bader">Scott Bader</a> develop and manufacture <a href="/wiki/Polyester_resin" title="Polyester resin">polyester resins</a> for glass-reinforced plastic (<a href="/wiki/Fiberglass" title="Fiberglass">fiberglass</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Gelcoat" title="Gelcoat">gelcoats</a>) at <a href="/wiki/Wollaston,_Northamptonshire" title="Wollaston, Northamptonshire">Wollaston</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Swarfega_bottles.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Swarfega_bottles.jpg/170px-Swarfega_bottles.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="252" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Swarfega_bottles.jpg/255px-Swarfega_bottles.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Swarfega_bottles.jpg/340px-Swarfega_bottles.jpg 2x" data-file-width="491" data-file-height="727" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Swarfega" title="Swarfega">Swarfega</a> was invented and is made by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Deb_Ltd&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Deb Ltd (page does not exist)">Deb</a> in <a href="/wiki/Belper" title="Belper">Belper</a> </figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Tata_Steel_Europe" title="Tata Steel Europe">Tata Steel Tubes Europe</a> is in Corby, along the <a href="/wiki/A427_road" title="A427 road">A427</a> near the A43 roundabout. <a href="/wiki/Barnes_Group" title="Barnes Group">Barnes Aerospace</a> have their European headquarters in central Derby. JJ Churchill make <a href="/wiki/Turbine_blade" title="Turbine blade">turbine blades</a> for jet engines in the east of <a href="/wiki/Market_Bosworth" title="Market Bosworth">Market Bosworth</a>, next to the <a href="/wiki/Battlefield_Line_Railway" title="Battlefield Line Railway">Battlefield Line Railway</a>. Ross Ceramics north of Derby make <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ceramic_core&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ceramic core (page does not exist)">ceramic cores</a> for casting turbine blades (at Rolls-Royce). The <a href="/wiki/Alumasc_Group" title="Alumasc Group">Alumasc Group</a> is in <a href="/wiki/Burton_Latimer" title="Burton Latimer">Burton Latimer</a>. <a href="/wiki/Sealed_Air" title="Sealed Air">Sealed Air</a> UK on the Telford Way Industrial Estate near <a href="/wiki/Kettering_General_Hospital" title="Kettering General Hospital">Kettering General Hospital</a> makes <a href="/wiki/Bubble_Wrap_(brand)" title="Bubble Wrap (brand)">Bubble Wrap</a>, which its parent USA company invented in 1960. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Motor_Industry_Research_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Motor Industry Research Association">Motor Industry Research Association</a> has an important test track at <a href="/wiki/Higham_on_the_Hill" title="Higham on the Hill">Higham on the Hill</a> near Hinckley. <a href="/wiki/Hendrickson_International" class="mw-redirect" title="Hendrickson International">Hendrickson Europe</a> make truck suspensions at Sywell Airport. <a href="/wiki/Timsons" title="Timsons">Timsons</a> make printers in <a href="/wiki/Kettering" title="Kettering">Kettering</a>. <a href="/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch" title="Heckler & Koch">Heckler & Koch</a> is in Lenton. On the Dukeries Industrial Estate, Worksop Galvanizers (<a href="/wiki/Wedge_Group" title="Wedge Group">Wedge Group</a>) have the largest <a href="/wiki/Galvanization" title="Galvanization">galvanizing bath</a> (zinc) in the UK. <a href="/wiki/Cooper_Industries" title="Cooper Industries">Cooper Bussmann</a> (former Hawker Fusegear) makes <a href="/wiki/Fuse_(electrical)" title="Fuse (electrical)">electrical fuses</a> in <a href="/wiki/Burton_on_the_Wolds" title="Burton on the Wolds">Burton on the Wolds</a> off the B676. Pearce Signs, one of the UK's largest sign-makers, is based in <a href="/wiki/Basford,_Nottinghamshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Basford, Nottinghamshire">New Basford</a>. Nylacast is an international <a href="/wiki/Plastics_engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Plastics engineering">engineered plastics</a> company based in <a href="/wiki/Humberstone_%26_Hamilton" class="mw-redirect" title="Humberstone & Hamilton">Humberstone</a>, Leicester. <a href="/wiki/Sapa_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Sapa Group">Sapa</a> are at Tibshelf on the B6014, on the Saw Pit Lane Industrial Estate with Storetec, the UK base of <a href="/wiki/Wanzl_(Company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wanzl (Company)">Wanzl</a> shopping trolleys. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Worcester_Bosch_Thermokinetics_(4470867542).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Worcester_Bosch_Thermokinetics_%284470867542%29.jpg/220px-Worcester_Bosch_Thermokinetics_%284470867542%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Worcester_Bosch_Thermokinetics_%284470867542%29.jpg/330px-Worcester_Bosch_Thermokinetics_%284470867542%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Worcester_Bosch_Thermokinetics_%284470867542%29.jpg/440px-Worcester_Bosch_Thermokinetics_%284470867542%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1290" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Worcester,_Bosch_Group" title="Worcester, Bosch Group">Worcester Bosch Thermokinetics</a> makes its <a href="/wiki/Heating_oil" title="Heating oil">oil-fired</a> and floor-standing <a href="/wiki/Water_heating" title="Water heating">boilers</a> at its <a href="/wiki/Danesmoor" class="mw-redirect" title="Danesmoor">Danesmoor</a> Works, off the A6175</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/RPC_Group" title="RPC Group">RPC Group</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rushden" title="Rushden">Rushden</a> opposite a <a href="/wiki/Waitrose" title="Waitrose">Waitrose</a>, on the A6, is a large (international, the largest of its type in Europe) packaging company, and make the bottles for <a href="/wiki/Heinz_Tomato_Ketchup" title="Heinz Tomato Ketchup">Heinz Tomato Ketchup</a>. Granger's, on the Clover Nook Industrial Estate off the <a href="/wiki/A38_road" title="A38 road">A38</a> at <a href="/wiki/Pinxton" title="Pinxton">Pinxton</a>, make Cherry Blossom <a href="/wiki/Shoe_polish" title="Shoe polish">shoe polish</a>. Fusion Provida based on B6057/A61 junction in Chesterfield makes pipe jointings and <a href="/wiki/Electrofusion" title="Electrofusion">electrofusion</a> fittings for the oil and gas industry. <a href="/wiki/Vaillant_Group" title="Vaillant Group">Vaillant</a> UK (former Hepworth Heating before 2002, with headquarters in <a href="/wiki/Remscheid" title="Remscheid">Remscheid</a>) make <a href="/w/index.php?title=Glow-worm_(boilers)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Glow-worm (boilers) (page does not exist)">Glow-worm</a> boilers on the A609 near <a href="/wiki/Belper_School" title="Belper School">Belper School</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Watchkeeper_WK450" class="mw-redirect" title="Watchkeeper WK450">Watchkeeper WK450</a> <a href="/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle" title="Unmanned aerial vehicle">UAV</a> is built jointly by <a href="/wiki/Thales_Group" title="Thales Group">Thales</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elbit_Systems" title="Elbit Systems">Elbit</a> on Scudamore Road in west Leicester, towards the M1; it is tested at <a href="/wiki/Aberporth_Airport" title="Aberporth Airport">Aberporth Airport</a> in Wales; 54 are on order, costing £1bn. At the A563 roundabout <a href="/wiki/BAE_Systems_Land_%26_Armaments" class="mw-redirect" title="BAE Systems Land & Armaments">BAE Systems Land & Armaments</a> had a tank factory, which closed in May 2011 when it lost the <a href="/wiki/Future_Rapid_Effect_System" title="Future Rapid Effect System">FRES</a> contract, given to General Dynamics; the site, owned by Thales, initially made naval radar systems. The large Sunningdale site on Braunstone Frith was the <a href="/wiki/British_Shoe_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="British Shoe Corporation">British Shoe Corporation</a>. <a href="/wiki/Chemring_Group" title="Chemring Group">Chemring Defence</a> UK (military <a href="/wiki/Pyrotechnics" title="Pyrotechnics">pyrotechnics</a>) is at <a href="/wiki/Draycott_and_Church_Wilne" title="Draycott and Church Wilne">Draycott and Church Wilne</a> west of the M1. <a href="/wiki/Invicta_Plastics" title="Invicta Plastics">Invicta Plastics</a> (<a href="/wiki/Injection_moulding" title="Injection moulding">injection moulding</a>) is on Scudamore Road. </p><p><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hoval_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hoval Group (page does not exist)">Hoval</a>, based on the B6166 (former A46) near Newark Northgate station, make industrial boilers in Lincoln for international customers, and have a <a href="/wiki/Royal_Warrant_of_Appointment_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Warrant of Appointment (United Kingdom)">Royal Warrant</a>. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jayplas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jayplas (page does not exist)">Jayplas</a>, the UK's biggest <a href="/wiki/Plastic_recycling" title="Plastic recycling">plastic recycling</a> company is based in <a href="/wiki/Great_Oakley,_Northamptonshire" title="Great Oakley, Northamptonshire">Great Oakley</a>, south of Corby off the <a href="/wiki/A6014_road" class="mw-redirect" title="A6014 road">A6014</a>, with a plastic recycling site in <a href="/wiki/South_Normanton" title="South Normanton">South Normanton</a>. <a href="/wiki/Fairline_Boats" class="mw-redirect" title="Fairline Boats">Fairline Boats</a> are based on the Nene in Oundle off the <a href="/wiki/A605_road" title="A605 road">A605</a> bypass; nearby are <a href="/wiki/Poclain" title="Poclain">Poclain Hydraulics</a> UK on the Nene Business Park. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Laser_Performance" class="mw-redirect" title="Laser Performance">Laser Performance</a> makes the <a href="/wiki/Laser_(dinghy)" title="Laser (dinghy)">Laser</a> sailing boat in Long Buckby next to Maclaren at <a href="/wiki/Long_Buckby_railway_station" title="Long Buckby railway station">Long Buckby railway station</a>. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Abbott_%26_Co.(Newark)_Ltd&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abbott & Co.(Newark) Ltd (page does not exist)">Abbott & Co.(Newark) Ltd</a>, Established in 1870 and based in The Newark Boiler Works on Northern Road, Newark, made boilers in the 1870s for the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> and today design and build a large range <a href="/wiki/Pressure_vessel" title="Pressure vessel">pressure vessels</a>, some of which were used recently<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (January 2024)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> on <a href="/wiki/HMS_Queen_Elizabeth_(R08)" title="HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08)">HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08)</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Taylor,_Taylor_%26_Hobson_advert,_1925.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d3/Taylor%2C_Taylor_%26_Hobson_advert%2C_1925.jpeg/220px-Taylor%2C_Taylor_%26_Hobson_advert%2C_1925.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="338" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d3/Taylor%2C_Taylor_%26_Hobson_advert%2C_1925.jpeg/330px-Taylor%2C_Taylor_%26_Hobson_advert%2C_1925.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d3/Taylor%2C_Taylor_%26_Hobson_advert%2C_1925.jpeg/440px-Taylor%2C_Taylor_%26_Hobson_advert%2C_1925.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="760" data-file-height="1169" /></a><figcaption>Taylor, Taylor & Hobson 1925 advert</figcaption></figure> <p>Spector Lumenex (part of <a href="/wiki/Tyco_International" title="Tyco International">Tyco</a>) make warning systems off the B684 in <a href="/wiki/Mapperley" title="Mapperley">Mapperley</a>. <a href="/wiki/Flowserve" title="Flowserve">Flowserve</a> UK (former <a href="/wiki/Worthington-Simpson" title="Worthington-Simpson">Worthington-Simpson</a>, then <a href="/wiki/Ingersoll_Rand" title="Ingersoll Rand">Ingersoll-Dresser</a>) in Balderton are the largest manufacturer of industrial pumps in the UK. <a href="/wiki/Hako_GmbH" title="Hako GmbH">Hako</a> Machines UK, a <a href="/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein" title="Schleswig-Holstein">Schleswig-Holstein</a> supplier of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Industrial_sweeper&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Industrial sweeper (page does not exist)">industrial sweepers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Street_sweeper" title="Street sweeper">road cleaners</a> are in Crick. <a href="/wiki/Bostik" title="Bostik">Bostik</a>, which from 1930 until 1990, was owned by <a href="/wiki/British_United_Shoe_Machinery" title="British United Shoe Machinery">British United Shoe Machinery</a> of Leicester, still has a main factory and research site (its construction division) in Belgrave; until 1962 it was made by <a href="/wiki/Bostik" title="Bostik">BB Chemical</a>, with its other main brand being the water-resistant <a href="/wiki/Prestik" title="Prestik">Prestik</a> for making <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sealing_strip&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sealing strip (page does not exist)">sealing strips</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Taylor_Hobson" title="Taylor Hobson">Taylor Hobson</a> (an international metrology company) is north of the A563 in former Thurmaston (inside Leicester), bought by <a href="/wiki/Ametek" title="Ametek">Ametek</a> in 2004; with a former division of the company, Cooke Optics, a camera lens manufacturer, further north in Thurmaston on the west side of the railway. The <a href="/wiki/Gents%27_of_Leicester" class="mw-redirect" title="Gents' of Leicester">Gent</a> fire alarm company, now owned by Honeywell since 2005, is off the A563 near the A6030 roundabout in the north of Humberstone. <a href="/wiki/Matsuura_Machinery" title="Matsuura Machinery">Matsuura Machinery</a> UK (CNC <a href="/wiki/Machine_tool" title="Machine tool">machine tools</a>) is towards Morrisons in Coalville. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ardagh_Group" title="Ardagh Group">Ardagh</a> (originally <a href="/wiki/Novar_plc" title="Novar plc">Metal Box</a> from 1962, then Impress Group) make <a href="/wiki/Tin_can" class="mw-redirect" title="Tin can">tin cans</a> south of the A38, off the B6139, north of Fabrikat; <a href="/wiki/Pandrol" title="Pandrol">Pandrol</a> UK in Worksop make resilient <a href="/wiki/Rail_fastening_system" title="Rail fastening system">rail fastenings</a>. <a href="/wiki/ThyssenKrupp" title="ThyssenKrupp">ThyssenKrupp</a> UK is in Lenton, off the A52, and further north is <a href="/wiki/ZF_Friedrichshafen" title="ZF Friedrichshafen">ZF Services UK</a> (wind turbine and automotive gears). At the A6019/A453 south of the tax office in Nottingham is <a href="/wiki/Thomas_%26_Betts" title="Thomas & Betts">Thomas & Betts</a> UK (former <a href="/w/index.php?title=W_%26_J_Furse&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="W & J Furse (page does not exist)">W & J Furse</a>, and bought by <a href="/wiki/ABB" title="ABB">ABB</a> in 2012), a world leader in <a href="/wiki/Surge_protector" title="Surge protector">lightning</a> and <a href="/wiki/Earthing_system" title="Earthing system">earthing protection</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Construction_and_building_materials">Construction and building materials</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Construction and building materials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Topps_Tiles" title="Topps Tiles">Topps Tiles</a> are on <a href="/w/index.php?title=Grove_Park,_Leicestershire&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Grove Park, Leicestershire (page does not exist)">Grove Park</a> in Enderby, with the national distribution centre of British Gas, the largest warehouse of gas spare parts in Europe, next door. <a href="/wiki/Aggregate_Industries" title="Aggregate Industries">Aggregate Industries</a> (now part of <a href="/wiki/LafargeHolcim" class="mw-redirect" title="LafargeHolcim">LafargeHolcim</a> since July 2015, when Paris-based Lafarge merged with Swiss-based Holcim) is based at Bardon Hall in <a href="/wiki/Bardon,_Leicestershire" title="Bardon, Leicestershire">Bardon</a>, next to the 912-foot (278 m) <a href="/wiki/Bardon_Hill" title="Bardon Hill">Bardon Hill</a>, Leicestershire's highest point. <a href="/wiki/Mountsorrel" title="Mountsorrel">Mountsorrel</a> has the largest <a href="/wiki/Granite" title="Granite">granite</a> quarry in Europe, owned by the French company, <a href="/wiki/Lafarge_(company)" title="Lafarge (company)">Lafarge</a> (owned by <a href="/wiki/Redland_plc" title="Redland plc">Redland plc</a> until 1997). <a href="/wiki/BPB_plc" title="BPB plc">BPB plc</a> (British Plasterboard), the world's largest manufacturer of <a href="/wiki/Drywall" title="Drywall">plasterboard</a> (<a href="/wiki/Calcium_sulfate" title="Calcium sulfate">calcium sulphate</a>) who own <a href="/wiki/British_Gypsum" class="mw-redirect" title="British Gypsum">British Gypsum</a>, is based in <a href="/wiki/East_Leake" title="East Leake">East Leake</a>, Nottinghamshire. They also have a large site at <a href="/wiki/Barrow_upon_Soar" title="Barrow upon Soar">Barrow upon Soar</a>. <a href="/wiki/Artex_Ltd." title="Artex Ltd.">Artex Ltd.</a>, part of the same company, is in <a href="/wiki/Ruddington" title="Ruddington">Ruddington</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/H%C3%B6rmann_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hörmann (company)">Hörmann</a> UK (<a href="/wiki/Garage_door" title="Garage door">garage doors</a>) is in Coalville, off the A511. <a href="/wiki/Barratt_Developments" class="mw-redirect" title="Barratt Developments">Barratt Developments</a> (housing) is at the <a href="/wiki/A511_road" title="A511 road">A511</a>/B585 roundabout in <a href="/wiki/Ellistown_and_Battleflat" title="Ellistown and Battleflat">Ellistown and Battleflat</a> (Bardon), southeast of Coalville; <a href="/wiki/Ibstock_plc" title="Ibstock plc">Ibstock</a> is the largest brick manufacturer (900 million a year, with twenty factories) in the UK, nearby to the southwest; . <a href="/wiki/Lafarge_Tarmac" class="mw-redirect" title="Lafarge Tarmac">Lafarge Aggregates & Concrete UK</a> is in <a href="/wiki/Syston" title="Syston">Syston</a>, next to the <a href="/wiki/A607_road" title="A607 road">A607</a>. <a href="/wiki/Roca_(company)" title="Roca (company)">Roca</a> UK and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Laufen_(company)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Laufen (company) (page does not exist)">Laufen</a> UK (<a href="/wiki/Plumbing_fixture" title="Plumbing fixture">sanitaryware</a>) are in the north of Coalville, next to the A511 on the Hermitage Industrial Estate, towards <a href="/wiki/Stephenson_College,_Coalville" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephenson College, Coalville">Stephenson College</a>. <a href="/wiki/Krohne" title="Krohne">Krohne</a> UK at Wellingborough make <a href="/wiki/Coriolis_effect" class="mw-redirect" title="Coriolis effect">Coriolis</a> mass <a href="/wiki/Flow_measurement" title="Flow measurement">flowmeters</a>. AvantiGas (former <a href="/wiki/Shell_Gas" class="mw-redirect" title="Shell Gas">Shell Gas LPG</a>) is off the A6192 at junction 29A at <a href="/wiki/Duckmanton" title="Duckmanton">Duckmanton</a> in <a href="/wiki/Staveley,_Derbyshire" title="Staveley, Derbyshire">Staveley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Sandvik_Mining_and_Construction" class="mw-redirect" title="Sandvik Mining and Construction">Sandvik Mining and Construction</a> UK are on the Astron Business Park, Swadlincote, near Brunel Healthcare. <a href="/wiki/DSF_Refractories_%26_Minerals_Ltd" title="DSF Refractories & Minerals Ltd">DSF Refractories & Minerals</a> are the UK's last main <a href="/wiki/Refractory" title="Refractory">refractory</a> company at <a href="/wiki/Friden,_Derbyshire" title="Friden, Derbyshire">Friden</a> at the A515/A5012 (<a href="/wiki/Via_Gellia" class="mw-redirect" title="Via Gellia">Via Gellia</a>) junction. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Finning-Caterpillar_at_Desford_-_geograph.org.uk_-_863588.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Finning-Caterpillar_at_Desford_-_geograph.org.uk_-_863588.jpg/150px-Finning-Caterpillar_at_Desford_-_geograph.org.uk_-_863588.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Finning-Caterpillar_at_Desford_-_geograph.org.uk_-_863588.jpg/225px-Finning-Caterpillar_at_Desford_-_geograph.org.uk_-_863588.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Finning-Caterpillar_at_Desford_-_geograph.org.uk_-_863588.jpg/300px-Finning-Caterpillar_at_Desford_-_geograph.org.uk_-_863588.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Caterpillar at Desford</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Caterpillar_Inc." title="Caterpillar Inc.">Caterpillar Building Construction Products</a> makes <a href="/wiki/Backhoe_loader" title="Backhoe loader">backhoe loaders</a>, <a href="/wiki/Loader_(equipment)" title="Loader (equipment)">wheel loaders</a>, <a href="/wiki/Telescopic_handler" title="Telescopic handler">telehandlers</a>, and mini <a href="/wiki/Excavator" title="Excavator">excavators</a>. <a href="/wiki/TEREX_Pegson" title="TEREX Pegson">Terex Pegson</a> make mobile caterpillar-tracked <a href="/wiki/Crusher" title="Crusher">crushing machines</a> next to the railway in Coalville. <a href="/wiki/SAME_Deutz-Fahr" class="mw-redirect" title="SAME Deutz-Fahr">SAME Deutz-Fahr</a> UK, is a tractor manufacturer based in <a href="/wiki/Barby,_Northamptonshire" title="Barby, Northamptonshire">Barby</a> in west Northamptonshire near the M6 north of Daventry, owned by <a href="/wiki/Treviglio" title="Treviglio">Treviglio</a> of Italy. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Building_pylons_At_Eakring_training_centre_-_geograph.org.uk_-_279712.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Building_pylons_At_Eakring_training_centre_-_geograph.org.uk_-_279712.jpg/220px-Building_pylons_At_Eakring_training_centre_-_geograph.org.uk_-_279712.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Building_pylons_At_Eakring_training_centre_-_geograph.org.uk_-_279712.jpg/330px-Building_pylons_At_Eakring_training_centre_-_geograph.org.uk_-_279712.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Building_pylons_At_Eakring_training_centre_-_geograph.org.uk_-_279712.jpg/440px-Building_pylons_At_Eakring_training_centre_-_geograph.org.uk_-_279712.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/National_Grid_plc" title="National Grid plc">National Grid plc</a> has its main <a href="/wiki/Ofsted" title="Ofsted">Ofsted</a>-checked <a href="/w/index.php?title=Eakring_Training_Centre&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eakring Training Centre (page does not exist)">Eakring Training Centre</a> in Nottinghamshire, where trainees learn how to build <a href="/wiki/Transmission_tower" title="Transmission tower">electricity pylons</a>, including the new <a href="/w/index.php?title=T_pylon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="T pylon (page does not exist)">T pylon</a>; National Grid has other training sites in <a href="/wiki/Hollinwood,_Greater_Manchester" title="Hollinwood, Greater Manchester">Hollinwood</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hitchin" title="Hitchin">Hitchin</a> </figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/w/index.php?title=Premier_Pitches&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Premier Pitches (page does not exist)">Premier Pitches</a> of <a href="/wiki/Nether_Handley" title="Nether Handley">Nether Handley</a>, off the <a href="/wiki/A6052_road" class="mw-redirect" title="A6052 road">A6052</a> at <a href="/wiki/Unstone" title="Unstone">Unstone</a> in northeast Derbyshire, made the pitch for Wembley Stadium, as well as for many other main pitches. Hewitt Sportsturf, just south of Whetstone next to the M1 in <a href="/wiki/Cosby,_Leicestershire" title="Cosby, Leicestershire">Cosby</a>, supplied the turf (360 rolls) for the <a href="/wiki/Olympic_Stadium_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="Olympic Stadium (London)">Olympic Stadium</a> in March 2011, although it was grown near Scunthorpe; a division of the company, Petersfield Growing Mediums, which supplies compost, has a Royal Warrant. <a href="/wiki/Werner_Co." title="Werner Co.">Werner</a> UK (Britain's leading manufacturer of metal <a href="/wiki/Step_ladder" class="mw-redirect" title="Step ladder">step ladders</a>) moved its ABRU site, off the A6 in the south of Belper, to Essex in 2016. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Textiles_and_clothing">Textiles and clothing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Textiles and clothing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_current_and_defunct_clothing_%26_footwear_stores_in_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="List of current and defunct clothing & footwear stores in the United Kingdom">List of current and defunct clothing & footwear stores in the United Kingdom</a></div> <p>The fashion company <a href="/wiki/Paul_Smith_(fashion_designer)" title="Paul Smith (fashion designer)">Paul Smith</a> is in Lenton. The high end metallic thread supplier <a href="/wiki/Lurex" title="Lurex">Lurex</a> is based in <a href="/wiki/Whetstone,_Leicestershire" title="Whetstone, Leicestershire">Whetstone, Leicestershire</a>. The lingerie companies <a href="/wiki/Gossard" title="Gossard">Gossard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aristoc" title="Aristoc">Aristoc</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pretty_Polly_(hosiery)" title="Pretty Polly (hosiery)">Pretty Polly</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Berlei" title="Berlei">Berlei</a> (formerly owned by <a href="/wiki/Courtaulds" title="Courtaulds">Courtaulds</a>, now CUK Clothing) were based in <a href="/wiki/Daybrook" title="Daybrook">Daybrook</a>; most of their hosiery was made at West Mill in <a href="/wiki/Belper" title="Belper">Belper</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Speedo_International_Limited" class="mw-redirect" title="Speedo International Limited">Speedo International Limited</a> is on the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ng2_business_park&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ng2 business park (page does not exist)">ng2 business park</a> on Queens Drive (near Experian, formerly in <a href="/wiki/Bobbers_Mill" class="mw-redirect" title="Bobbers Mill">Bobbers Mill</a> on the <a href="/wiki/A610_road" title="A610 road">A610</a> near <a href="/wiki/Basford,_Nottingham" title="Basford, Nottingham">Basford</a> before 2010). Its <a href="/wiki/LZR_Racer" title="LZR Racer">LZR Racer</a> suit helped <a href="/wiki/Michael_Phelps" title="Michael Phelps">Michael Phelps</a> win eight golds at the <a href="/wiki/Swimming_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics" title="Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics">2008 Olympics</a>. In Enderby, on the B582 close to the M69 and a large electricity substation, is <a href="/wiki/Next_(clothing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Next (clothing)">Next</a>, created by <a href="/wiki/George_Davies_(retailer)" title="George Davies (retailer)">George Davies</a> in 1981, which is the largest company in the region (and the Midlands) by number of employees with 59,000, and has the second largest turnover (£3 billion) of companies headquartered in the region, after Boots (£6 billion).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Next_-_geograph.org.uk_-_491690.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Next_-_geograph.org.uk_-_491690.jpg/220px-Next_-_geograph.org.uk_-_491690.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Next_-_geograph.org.uk_-_491690.jpg/330px-Next_-_geograph.org.uk_-_491690.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Next_-_geograph.org.uk_-_491690.jpg/440px-Next_-_geograph.org.uk_-_491690.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="471" /></a><figcaption>Headquarters of Next Retailing in July 2007 at Enderby, next to the M69; the largest company by turnover in the Midlands</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Boden_(clothing)" title="Boden (clothing)">Boden (clothing)</a> is on the Meridian estate in Leicester. <a href="/wiki/Wolsey_(clothing)" title="Wolsey (clothing)">Wolsey (clothing)</a> is off the A563 in the northeast of Leicester, east of <a href="/wiki/Rushey_Mead" title="Rushey Mead">Rushey Mead</a>. Scott Nichol make traditional socks in Hinckley. <a href="/wiki/Per_Una" class="mw-redirect" title="Per Una">Per Una</a> have a factory near Cossington and the A46/A607 junction. Much of Britain's lingerie and hosiery is made in the region. Guilford Europe (former Guilford Kapwood), at Somercotes, makes fabric (<a href="/wiki/Warp_knitting" title="Warp knitting">warp knitting</a>) for sports clothing and automotive products, and have been owned by <a href="/wiki/Lear_Corporation" title="Lear Corporation">Lear Corporation</a> since 2012. </p><p>Many footwear companies such as <a href="/wiki/Shoe_Zone" title="Shoe Zone">Shoe Zone</a> (which bought out Stead and Simpson), are based in Leicester. <a href="/wiki/Brantano_Footwear" title="Brantano Footwear">Brantano Footwear UK</a>, based in Leicester before 2002, were in <a href="/wiki/Ellistown_and_Battleflat" title="Ellistown and Battleflat">Ellistown and Battleflat</a> until March 2017, just south of <a href="/wiki/Coalville" title="Coalville">Coalville</a> near M1 junction 22, nearby to <a href="/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9" title="Nestlé">Nestlé</a>'s national distribution centre. <a href="/wiki/Loake" title="Loake">Loake</a> make shoes at Kettering, and have a Royal appointment. <a href="/wiki/Church%27s" title="Church's">Church's Shoes</a> are at Northampton and are also high quality.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag may use weasel words or too-vague attribution. (February 2024)">according to whom?</span></a></i>]</sup> <a href="/wiki/Tricker%27s" title="Tricker's">Tricker's</a> shoes in Northampton have a royal warrant. <a href="/wiki/Sanders_%26_Sanders" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanders & Sanders">Sanders & Sanders</a> and <a href="/wiki/Grenson" class="mw-redirect" title="Grenson">Grenson</a> make shoes in Rushden. <a href="/wiki/Crockett_%26_Jones" title="Crockett & Jones">Crockett & Jones</a> make shoes in the northeast of Northampton, towards Abington. The <a href="/wiki/BLC_Leather_Technology_Centre" class="mw-redirect" title="BLC Leather Technology Centre">BLC Leather Technology Centre</a> is in Moulton and <a href="/wiki/SATRA" title="SATRA">SATRA</a>, in west Kettering, both conduct footwear research. Aspex make sports sunglasses in Moulton, near <a href="/wiki/Moulton_College" title="Moulton College">Moulton College</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Telegraph_Poles,_Boston_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1206673.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Telegraph_Poles%2C_Boston_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1206673.jpg/220px-Telegraph_Poles%2C_Boston_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1206673.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Telegraph_Poles%2C_Boston_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1206673.jpg/330px-Telegraph_Poles%2C_Boston_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1206673.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Telegraph_Poles%2C_Boston_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1206673.jpg/440px-Telegraph_Poles%2C_Boston_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1206673.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Calders_%26_Grandidge" title="Calders & Grandidge">Calders & Grandidge</a> in the south of Boston are the UK's largest supplier of <a href="/wiki/Utility_pole" title="Utility pole">telegraph poles</a> and wooden <a href="/wiki/Railroad_tie" title="Railroad tie">railway sleepers</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Sports_Direct" class="mw-redirect" title="Sports Direct">Sports Direct</a> is based in <a href="/wiki/Shirebrook" title="Shirebrook">Shirebrook</a> on an old <a href="/wiki/Bolsover" title="Bolsover">Bolsover</a> coal mine. At the Trent Business Centre is <a href="/wiki/Sunspel" title="Sunspel">Sunspel</a>, who introduced the <a href="/wiki/T-shirt" title="T-shirt">t-shirt</a> to the British market; nearby Meadowmead make premium furniture off the B6540, and <a href="/wiki/Aga_Rangemaster_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Aga Rangemaster Group">Aga Rangemaster Group</a> make kitchen <a href="/wiki/Sinks" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinks">sinks</a>. Duresta Upholstery is in Long Eaton, with a factory of <a href="/wiki/DFS_(British_retailer)" class="mw-redirect" title="DFS (British retailer)">DFS</a> opposite. W&G Sissons on the Chesterfield Est, now owned by <a href="/wiki/Franke_(company)" title="Franke (company)">Franke</a>, has been the UK's largest manufacturer of stainless steel sinks since the 1950s. <a href="/wiki/Parker_Knoll" title="Parker Knoll">Parker Knoll</a> make high-end furniture off the B6016 on the Greenhill Industrial Estate, south of Alfreton. <a href="/wiki/Gunn_%26_Moore" title="Gunn & Moore">Gunn & Moore</a> (GM), off the A612 north of Trent Bridge cricket ground, is an exclusive <a href="/wiki/Cricket_bat" title="Cricket bat">cricket bat</a> manufacturer. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lea_Bridge_-_John_Smedley_Mill_-_Factory_Shop.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Lea_Bridge_-_John_Smedley_Mill_-_Factory_Shop.jpg/220px-Lea_Bridge_-_John_Smedley_Mill_-_Factory_Shop.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Lea_Bridge_-_John_Smedley_Mill_-_Factory_Shop.jpg/330px-Lea_Bridge_-_John_Smedley_Mill_-_Factory_Shop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Lea_Bridge_-_John_Smedley_Mill_-_Factory_Shop.jpg/440px-Lea_Bridge_-_John_Smedley_Mill_-_Factory_Shop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2194" data-file-height="1673" /></a><figcaption>John Smedley factory at Lea Mills: the oldest continuously working factory in the world</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Wild_Country_(company)" title="Wild Country (company)">Wild Country</a>, on the <a href="/wiki/Tideswell" title="Tideswell">Tideswell</a> Industrial Estate off the B6049, are the UK's leading manufacturer of <a href="/wiki/Rock-climbing_equipment" title="Rock-climbing equipment">rock-climbing equipment</a>. <a href="/wiki/Blacks_Leisure_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Blacks Leisure Group">Blacks Leisure Group</a> (previous owner of Blacks and <a href="/wiki/Millets_(retailer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Millets (retailer)">Millets</a> before financial failure and takeover by <a href="/wiki/JD_Sports" title="JD Sports">JD Sports</a>) was based in <a href="/wiki/Duston" title="Duston">Duston</a>, in the west of Northampton, and is now off the A45 in the east of the town on the Swan Valley Ind Est, near the UK & Ireland base of <a href="/wiki/Levi_Strauss_%26_Co." title="Levi Strauss & Co.">Levi Strauss & Co.</a> Joules <a href="/wiki/British_country_clothing" title="British country clothing">country clothing</a> is on the <a href="/wiki/A4304_road" class="mw-redirect" title="A4304 road">A4304</a>, east of Market Harborough at The Point near the A6 roundabout and the Northamptonshire boundary at <a href="/wiki/Dingley,_Northamptonshire" title="Dingley, Northamptonshire">Dingley</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/George_at_Asda" class="mw-redirect" title="George at Asda">George at Asda</a>, based at Lutterworth, in 2009 overtook M&S to become Britain's leading fashion retailer. <a href="/wiki/TW_Kempton" class="mw-redirect" title="TW Kempton">TW Kempton</a> are a main manufacturer of uniforms for the armed and police services opposite the National Space Centre on the A6 in north Leicester; they also own the Fortis body armour brand and make <a href="/wiki/Personnel_Armor_System_for_Ground_Troops" title="Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops">PASGT</a> nylon fibre helmets for troops. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Retail">Retail</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Retail"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Wilko_(retailer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilko (retailer)">Wilko</a> head office is at <a href="/wiki/Manton,_Nottinghamshire" title="Manton, Nottinghamshire">Manton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Worksop" title="Worksop">Worksop</a>; it was founded by <a href="/wiki/James_Kemsey_Wilkinson" title="James Kemsey Wilkinson">James Kemsey Wilkinson</a> in Leicester in 1930. In <a href="/wiki/Lenton,_Nottingham" title="Lenton, Nottingham">Lenton</a>, are the head offices of <a href="/wiki/Games_Workshop" title="Games Workshop">Games Workshop</a>, the producers of <a href="/wiki/Warhammer_Fantasy_Battle" class="mw-redirect" title="Warhammer Fantasy Battle">Warhammer</a> miniatures. <a href="/wiki/Pendragon_PLC" class="mw-redirect" title="Pendragon PLC">Pendragon PLC</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Car_dealership" title="Car dealership">car dealership</a> and the Sherwood Park industrial area is in <a href="/wiki/Annesley" title="Annesley">Annesley</a>. <a href="/wiki/Sytner_Group" title="Sytner Group">Sytner Group</a> is in Enderby, a prestige car retailer. <a href="/wiki/Dunelm_Group" title="Dunelm Group">Dunelm Group</a>, the furnishings company, is based on the A607 next to Lafarge in <a href="/wiki/Syston" title="Syston">Syston</a>; the company is named after Bill Adderley's house on Greenhill Road in Coalville; nearby is <a href="/wiki/Pukka_Pies" title="Pukka Pies">Pukka Pies</a>. In Leicester is the nearly-defunct photographic equipment company <a href="/wiki/Jessops" title="Jessops">Jessops</a>, bought and relaunched as Jessops Europe by businessman <a href="/wiki/Peter_Jones_(entrepreneur)" title="Peter Jones (entrepreneur)">Peter Jones</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fox%27s_Confectionery" title="Fox's Confectionery">Fox's Confectionery</a> (maker of <a href="/wiki/Fox%27s_Glacier_Mints" title="Fox's Glacier Mints">Fox's Glacier Mints</a>), with both based near each other on the <a href="/wiki/Braunstone_Park_%26_Rowley_Fields" title="Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields">Braunstone Frith</a> estate. Also in Leicester are the <a href="/wiki/Bookmaker" title="Bookmaker">bookmaker</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mark_Jarvis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mark Jarvis (page does not exist)">Mark Jarvis</a> (next to Radio Leicester), the European HQ of <a href="/wiki/National_Car_Rental" title="National Car Rental">National Car Rental</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Otis_Elevator_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Otis Elevator Company">Otis UK</a> (<a href="/wiki/Elevator" title="Elevator">lifts</a>, near the National Space Centre on the A6). <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jacobs_(photographic_retailer)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jacobs (photographic retailer) (page does not exist)">Jacobs</a> is on the Meridian Business Park in <a href="/wiki/Braunstone_Town" title="Braunstone Town">Braunstone</a>, next to the M1. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Machine_Mart&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Machine Mart (page does not exist)">Machine Mart</a> is based on the A60 near BioCity in Nottingham. East of the Walkers plant in Beaumont Leys is <a href="/wiki/Office_Depot" title="Office Depot">Office Depot</a> UK (and Viking Direct UK) on the Bursom Industrial Estate. <a href="/wiki/Crown_Crest" class="mw-redirect" title="Crown Crest">Crown Crest</a> in Belgrave owns <a href="/wiki/Poundstretcher" title="Poundstretcher">Poundstretcher</a>. <a href="/wiki/Goldsmiths_(retailer)" title="Goldsmiths (retailer)">Goldsmiths</a> (jewellers) are based at the western end of Braunstone Frith, off the B5380. </p><p>In Northampton is <a href="/wiki/Avon_Products" title="Avon Products">Avon Products UK</a>; its products reach 6m women per week. <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Railway" title="East Midlands Railway">East Midlands Railway</a> has its head office in Derby. <a href="/wiki/Porterbrook" title="Porterbrook">Porterbrook</a>, one of the UK's three <a href="/wiki/Rolling_stock_company" title="Rolling stock company">rolling stock companies</a> is in Derby. The former <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Electricity" title="East Midlands Electricity">East Midlands Electricity</a> is now owned by <a href="/wiki/E.ON_UK" title="E.ON UK">E.ON UK</a> (<a href="/wiki/Public_electricity_supplier" title="Public electricity supplier">supply</a>, since <a href="/wiki/Powergen" class="mw-redirect" title="Powergen">Powergen</a> bought EME in June 1998) and <a href="/wiki/Western_Power_Distribution" title="Western Power Distribution">Western Power Distribution</a> (<a href="/wiki/Distribution_network_operator" title="Distribution network operator">distribution</a>, who bought Central Networks in April 2011), which is based in <a href="/wiki/Long_Whatton_and_Diseworth" title="Long Whatton and Diseworth">Long Whatton and Diseworth</a>; the area has around a 5,000 MW demand for electricity. Nearby at <a href="/wiki/Castle_Donington" title="Castle Donington">Castle Donington</a> is the home of the (separate) headquarters of <a href="/wiki/BMI_(airline)" class="mw-redirect" title="BMI (airline)">BMI</a> (in <a href="/wiki/Donington_Hall" title="Donington Hall">Donington Hall</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Bmibaby" title="Bmibaby">bmibaby</a>. <a href="/wiki/Sixt" title="Sixt">Sixt</a>, the car rental firm, has its UK base in Chesterfield, the base of <a href="/wiki/Auto_Windscreens" title="Auto Windscreens">Auto Windscreens</a>. <a href="/wiki/Booker_Group" title="Booker Group">Booker Group</a>, the Cash & Carry, (<a href="/wiki/Happy_Shopper" title="Happy Shopper">Happy Shopper</a> and 2,700 <a href="/wiki/Premier_Stores" class="mw-redirect" title="Premier Stores">Premier Stores</a>, and famous for the <a href="/wiki/Man_Booker_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Man Booker Prize">Booker Prize</a>) is on B571 in Wellingborough. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Maclaren" title="Maclaren">Maclaren</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Baby_transport" title="Baby transport">pushchair</a> maker, is near the M1 next to <a href="/wiki/Long_Buckby_railway_station" title="Long Buckby railway station">Long Buckby railway station</a>; <a href="/w/index.php?title=BabyStyle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="BabyStyle (page does not exist)">BabyStyle</a> is in <a href="/wiki/Sileby" title="Sileby">Sileby</a>. There are three main distribution centres in the area at <a href="/wiki/Magna_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Magna Park">Magna Park</a> in Leicestershire (the largest of its kind in Europe), and <a href="/wiki/Brackmills" class="mw-redirect" title="Brackmills">Brackmills</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Daventry_International_Railfreight_Terminal" class="mw-redirect" title="Daventry International Railfreight Terminal">Daventry International Railfreight Terminal</a> in Northamptonshire. <a href="/wiki/J_D_Wetherspoon" class="mw-redirect" title="J D Wetherspoon">J D Wetherspoon</a> have their main distribution centre at Daventry, and <a href="/wiki/Currys" title="Currys">Currys</a> (founded in Leicester in 1888 on Belgrave Gate) have theirs at <a href="/wiki/Newark-on-Trent" title="Newark-on-Trent">Newark-on-Trent</a>. Oxford University Press have their national distribution centre at North Kettering Business Park at the <a href="/wiki/A6003_road" title="A6003 road">A6003</a> roundabout on the A43 Kettering bypass (in <a href="/wiki/Rushton,_Northamptonshire" title="Rushton, Northamptonshire">Rushton</a>). <a href="/wiki/Monsoon_Accessorize" title="Monsoon Accessorize">Monsoon Accessorize</a> have their national distribution centre to the east on Octavian Park in Irchester next to A45. In <a href="/wiki/Kilsby" title="Kilsby">Kilsby</a> on the DIRFT estate, Tesco have their Daventry Grocery, the largest supermarket depot in the country, west of the A5 and north of the WCML. North of the A428 is Tesco's Clothing Distribution Centre. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Food_processing">Food processing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Food processing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dukeries_Industrial_Estate_-_geograph.org.uk_-_127423.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Dukeries_Industrial_Estate_-_geograph.org.uk_-_127423.jpg/220px-Dukeries_Industrial_Estate_-_geograph.org.uk_-_127423.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Dukeries_Industrial_Estate_-_geograph.org.uk_-_127423.jpg/330px-Dukeries_Industrial_Estate_-_geograph.org.uk_-_127423.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Dukeries_Industrial_Estate_-_geograph.org.uk_-_127423.jpg/440px-Dukeries_Industrial_Estate_-_geograph.org.uk_-_127423.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Oxo factory (former <a href="/wiki/Batchelors" title="Batchelors">Batchelors</a>) on the <a href="/wiki/The_Dukeries" title="The Dukeries">Dukeries</a> Industrial Estate in Worksop</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/British_Sugar" title="British Sugar">Silver Spoon</a> makes all of its <a href="/wiki/Natural_brown_sugar" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural brown sugar">demerara</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brown_sugar" title="Brown sugar">brown sugar</a> at <a href="/wiki/Newark-on-Trent" title="Newark-on-Trent">Newark-on-Trent</a>. <a href="/wiki/Swizzels_Matlow" class="mw-redirect" title="Swizzels Matlow">Swizzels Matlow</a> makes children's confectionery in <a href="/wiki/New_Mills" title="New Mills">New Mills</a>. <a href="/wiki/Carlsberg_Group" title="Carlsberg Group">Carlsberg</a> has been brewed in Northampton since 1974, with twelve UK depots, and also brews <a href="/wiki/Holsten_Pils" title="Holsten Pils">Holsten Pils</a>, and has brewed <a href="/wiki/Tetley%27s_Brewery" title="Tetley's Brewery">Tetley</a> since 2011. <a href="/wiki/Cott" class="mw-redirect" title="Cott">Cott Beverages UK</a> is in <a href="/wiki/Kegworth" title="Kegworth">Kegworth</a>. <a href="/wiki/Greencore" title="Greencore">Greencore UK</a> (former Derby-based Hazlewood Foods) is off the <a href="/wiki/A616_road" title="A616 road">A616</a> at <a href="/wiki/Barlborough" title="Barlborough">Barlborough Links</a>; its site at <a href="/wiki/Manton,_Nottinghamshire" title="Manton, Nottinghamshire">Manton Wood Enterprise Zone</a>, Worksop claims to be the world's largest sandwich factory. <a href="/wiki/United_Biscuits" title="United Biscuits">United Biscuits</a> has a large factory in <a href="/wiki/Ashby-de-la-Zouch" title="Ashby-de-la-Zouch">Ashby-de-la-Zouch</a> where it makes its <a href="/wiki/KP_Snacks" title="KP Snacks">KP Snacks</a> including <a href="/wiki/Hula_Hoops" title="Hula Hoops">Hula Hoops</a>, <a href="/wiki/Skips_(snack)" title="Skips (snack)">Skips</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nik_Naks_(British_snack)" title="Nik Naks (British snack)">Nik Naks</a>. <a href="/wiki/Oxo_(food)" title="Oxo (food)">Oxo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saxa_(food_product)" title="Saxa (food product)">Saxa</a> salt, <a href="/wiki/Super_Noodles" title="Super Noodles">Super Noodles</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bisto" title="Bisto">Bisto</a> are made by <a href="/wiki/Premier_Foods" title="Premier Foods">Premier Foods</a> in the west of <a href="/wiki/Worksop" title="Worksop">Worksop</a>. <a href="/wiki/Tangerine_Confectionery" class="mw-redirect" title="Tangerine Confectionery">Tangerine Confectionery</a> are at <a href="/wiki/Holmewood" title="Holmewood">Holmewood</a> (formerly <a href="/wiki/Trebor_(confectionery)" title="Trebor (confectionery)">Cadbury Trebor Bassett</a>). </p><p><a href="/wiki/Cat_food" title="Cat food">Cat food</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Whiskas" title="Whiskas">Whiskas</a> is made in <a href="/wiki/Melton_Mowbray" title="Melton Mowbray">Melton Mowbray</a> by <a href="/wiki/Pedigree_Petfoods" title="Pedigree Petfoods">Masterfoods</a>; their <a href="/wiki/Waltham_Centre_for_Pet_Nutrition" class="mw-redirect" title="Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition">Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition</a> on the A607 claims to be the world's leading authority on petfood research. Also in the southwest of the town next to the <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_to_Peterborough_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Birmingham to Peterborough Line">railway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samworth_Brothers" title="Samworth Brothers">Samworth Brothers</a> have owned <a href="/wiki/Ginsters" title="Ginsters">Ginsters</a> since 1977 and <a href="/wiki/Soreen" title="Soreen">Soreen</a> since 2014, and have 8,000 UK employees. <a href="/wiki/Whitworths" title="Whitworths">Whitworths</a>, the food company, is in <a href="/wiki/Irthlingborough" title="Irthlingborough">Irthlingborough</a>; they also have Victoria Mills flour site on the A509 in Irchester. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Carlsberg_Brewery_Northampton_UK.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Carlsberg_Brewery_Northampton_UK.jpg/220px-Carlsberg_Brewery_Northampton_UK.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Carlsberg_Brewery_Northampton_UK.jpg/330px-Carlsberg_Brewery_Northampton_UK.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Carlsberg_Brewery_Northampton_UK.jpg/440px-Carlsberg_Brewery_Northampton_UK.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3248" data-file-height="1747" /></a><figcaption>Carlsberg Brewery at the A428/<a href="/wiki/A508_road" title="A508 road">A508</a> junction in Northampton, on the former <a href="/wiki/Phipps_NBC" title="Phipps NBC">Phipps NBC</a> site, also bottles <a href="/wiki/Tuborg_Brewery" title="Tuborg Brewery">Tuborg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mahou-San_Miguel_Group" title="Mahou-San Miguel Group">San Migiuel</a>; all modern lagers come from a <a href="/wiki/Saccharomyces_pastorianus" title="Saccharomyces pastorianus">Carlsberg yeast</a> developed in 1883 </figcaption></figure> <p>The crisp company <a href="/wiki/Walkers_(snack_foods)" title="Walkers (snack foods)">Walkers</a> (owned by <a href="/wiki/PepsiCo" title="PepsiCo">PepsiCo</a> and the UK's biggest grocery brand) makes 10 million bags of crisps a day at the biggest crisp factory in the world at <a href="/wiki/Beaumont_Leys" title="Beaumont Leys">Beaumont Leys</a>. Beaumont Park is PepsiCo's main research centre in the UK. <a href="/wiki/Pork_Farms" title="Pork Farms">Pork Farms</a> is in Lenton, Nottingham. <a href="/wiki/Thorntons" title="Thorntons">Thorntons</a> is a big employer south of <a href="/wiki/Alfreton" title="Alfreton">Alfreton</a> in <a href="/wiki/Swanwick,_Derbyshire" title="Swanwick, Derbyshire">Swanwick</a> on a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Swanwick_Colliery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Swanwick Colliery (page does not exist)">former colliery</a>, since the factory opened in 1985. At Latimer Park (Burton Latimer) at the A6/A14 junction is Alpro, who make <a href="/wiki/Soy_milk" title="Soy milk">soya milk</a> products, and a huge <a href="/wiki/Morrisons" title="Morrisons">Morrisons</a> depot. To the west is <a href="/wiki/Weetabix_Limited" title="Weetabix Limited">Weetabix</a>, which sources its wheat from a 50-mile (80 km) radius around Kettering, and also make <a href="/wiki/Weetos" title="Weetos">Weetos</a> in Corby; <a href="/wiki/Ready_Brek" title="Ready Brek">Ready Brek</a> was bought from <a href="/wiki/J._Lyons_and_Co." title="J. Lyons and Co.">Lyons</a> in 1990. </p><p><a href="/w/index.php?title=Long_Clawson_Dairy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Long Clawson Dairy (page does not exist)">Long Clawson Dairy</a> are the biggest producers of <a href="/wiki/Stilton_cheese" title="Stilton cheese">Stilton cheese</a> in the UK; the cheese, with <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Blue" title="Shropshire Blue">Shropshire Blue</a>, is also made in <a href="/wiki/Cropwell_Bishop" title="Cropwell Bishop">Cropwell Bishop</a> and <a href="/wiki/Colston_Bassett" title="Colston Bassett">Colston Bassett</a>. <a href="/wiki/Faccenda_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Faccenda Group">Faccenda Group</a> of Brackley is the second largest <a href="/wiki/Poultry_farming" title="Poultry farming">processor of chicken</a> in the UK; the company also has the former Cranberry Foods site at <a href="/wiki/Foston_and_Scropton" title="Foston and Scropton">Scropton</a> in Derbyshire, the second biggest turkey processor in the UK after <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Matthews_Ltd" class="mw-redirect" title="Bernard Matthews Ltd">Bernard Matthews</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Wigston_Magna" class="mw-redirect" title="Wigston Magna">Wigston</a>, Charnwood Foods (former <a href="/wiki/Rank_Hovis_McDougall" title="Rank Hovis McDougall">RHM Group</a>) make pizza bases for <a href="/wiki/Pizza_Hut" title="Pizza Hut">Pizza Hut</a> and is now owned by <a href="/wiki/Premier_Foods" title="Premier Foods">Premier Foods</a>; Rossa Ice Cream is next to the Grand Union Canal and nearby is <a href="/wiki/Jacob%27s" title="Jacob's">Jacob's</a> Bakery who make 25 million biscuits a week. <a href="/wiki/D%C3%A9lifrance" title="Délifrance">Délifrance</a> UK is in north-west Wigston. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Greencore" title="Greencore">Greencore</a> Prepared Foods on <a href="/wiki/Moulton_Park" title="Moulton Park">Moulton Park</a> make half of <a href="/wiki/Marks_%26_Spencer" title="Marks & Spencer">M&S</a>'s sandwiches and <a href="/wiki/Sandwich_filler" class="mw-redirect" title="Sandwich filler">sandwich filler</a> pots. Sealord UK make all of <a href="/wiki/Waitrose" title="Waitrose">Waitrose</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Whitefish_(fisheries_term)" title="Whitefish (fisheries term)">white fish</a> products near <a href="/wiki/Caistor" title="Caistor">Caistor</a>. Kettleby Foods, part of Samworth Brothers, make most of Tesco's ready meals in <a href="/wiki/Melton_Mowbray" title="Melton Mowbray">Melton Mowbray</a>. PAS (Grantham) (owned by <a href="/wiki/McCain_Foods" title="McCain Foods">McCain</a>) make chips at <a href="/wiki/Easton,_Lincolnshire" title="Easton, Lincolnshire">Easton</a>. Isoma of Swadlincote makes food handling equipment; Interlevin Refrigeration at Castle Donington is near the M&S distribution centre; Parry Catering and Fabrication in <a href="/wiki/Draycott,_Derbyshire" title="Draycott, Derbyshire">Draycott</a> make catering appliances and equipment. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Roquette_Freres" class="mw-redirect" title="Roquette Freres">Roquette</a> (former ABF-owned ABR Foods) produce starch and <a href="/wiki/Biofuel" title="Biofuel">bioethanol</a> at Corby near RS Components, and a Morrisons frozen-food depot is near <a href="/wiki/Weldon,_Northamptonshire" title="Weldon, Northamptonshire">Weldon</a>. Opposite Charles Lawrence in Newark, Laurens Patisseries (owned by <a href="/wiki/Bakkav%C3%B6r" title="Bakkavör">Bakkavör</a> UK) are Europe's largest manufacturer of cream cakes. <a href="/wiki/Kerry_Group" title="Kerry Group">Kerry Ingredients</a> make <a href="/wiki/Homepride" title="Homepride">Homepride</a> flour in Gainsborough. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Health_care">Health care</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Health care"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_pharmaceutical_manufacturers_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="List of pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United Kingdom">List of pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United Kingdom</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Boots_the_Chemist_-_D10_building_-_geograph.org.uk_-_678655.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Boots_the_Chemist_-_D10_building_-_geograph.org.uk_-_678655.jpg/220px-Boots_the_Chemist_-_D10_building_-_geograph.org.uk_-_678655.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Boots_the_Chemist_-_D10_building_-_geograph.org.uk_-_678655.jpg/330px-Boots_the_Chemist_-_D10_building_-_geograph.org.uk_-_678655.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Boots_the_Chemist_-_D10_building_-_geograph.org.uk_-_678655.jpg/440px-Boots_the_Chemist_-_D10_building_-_geograph.org.uk_-_678655.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="427" /></a><figcaption> Sir <a href="/wiki/Owen_Williams_(engineer)" title="Owen Williams (engineer)">Owen Williams</a> D10 building at Boots</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Boots_UK" class="mw-redirect" title="Boots UK">Boots UK</a> is based in <a href="/wiki/Lenton,_Nottingham" title="Lenton, Nottingham">Lenton</a> in Nottingham, with 2,500 UK stores, where <a href="/wiki/Stewart_Adams_(chemist)" title="Stewart Adams (chemist)">Stewart Adams</a> developed <a href="/wiki/Ibuprofen" title="Ibuprofen">Ibuprofen</a> in the 1960s on Rutland Road in West Bridgford, and <a href="/wiki/Vision_Express" title="Vision Express">Vision Express</a> are nearby, next to the A52. Boots was the biggest chemist chain in the world; now <a href="/wiki/A.S._Watson_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="A.S. Watson Group">A.S. Watson Group</a> is the world's biggest health retail company. <a href="/wiki/Crookes_Healthcare" title="Crookes Healthcare">Crookes Healthcare</a>, formerly Boots and now <a href="/wiki/Reckitt_Benckiser" class="mw-redirect" title="Reckitt Benckiser">Reckitt Benckiser</a>, make <a href="/wiki/Strepsils" title="Strepsils">Strepsils</a> and Optrex on the enormous Boots site, and <a href="/wiki/Boots_Contract_Manufacturing" class="mw-redirect" title="Boots Contract Manufacturing">Boots Contract Manufacturing</a> (BCM) make products for other firms; it makes <a href="/wiki/Benylin" title="Benylin">Benylin</a> for <a href="/wiki/McNeil_Consumer_Healthcare" title="McNeil Consumer Healthcare">McNeil</a>. On the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ng2_business_park&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ng2 business park (page does not exist)">ng2 business park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Specsavers" title="Specsavers">Specsavers</a> have their corporate eyecare and <a href="/wiki/Contact_lens" title="Contact lens">contact lens</a> division. Three out of the four main UK <a href="/wiki/Optician" title="Optician">opticians</a> are sited in Nottingham. The <a href="/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging" title="Magnetic resonance imaging">MRI scanner</a> was developed at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Nottingham" title="University of Nottingham">University of Nottingham</a> by Sir <a href="/wiki/Peter_Mansfield" title="Peter Mansfield">Peter Mansfield</a>; MRI scanners were developed mainly by GEC Medical, once invented; MRI harnesses <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_magnetic_resonance" title="Nuclear magnetic resonance">nuclear magnetic resonance</a> (NMR) of the <a href="/wiki/Hydrogen_atom" title="Hydrogen atom">hydrogen nucleus</a>; <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Vahan_Damadian" class="mw-redirect" title="Raymond Vahan Damadian">Raymond Vahan Damadian</a> of USA also claims the MRI invention.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Medical_Centre" title="Queen's Medical Centre">Queen's Medical Centre</a> (QMC) is one of the largest <a href="/wiki/Teaching_hospital" title="Teaching hospital">teaching hospitals</a> in Europe, and the largest hospital in the UK. The CT scanner (<a href="/wiki/X-ray_computed_tomography" class="mw-redirect" title="X-ray computed tomography">X-ray computed tomography</a>) was invented by Newark's Sir <a href="/wiki/Godfrey_Hounsfield" title="Godfrey Hounsfield">Godfrey Hounsfield</a>. Both inventions received <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine" title="Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine">Nobel Prizes for Medicine</a> (2003 for MRI and 1979 for CT). Glenfield Hospital (which comes under the UHL NHS Trust) is one of England's main hospitals for coronary care and respiratory diseases; it has a strong international reputation for medical research in cardiac and respiratory health and carried out the world's first percutaneous coronary intervention procedure on a two-year-old child in August 2012 with the largest ECMO unit in the UK.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Ambulance_Service" title="East Midlands Ambulance Service">EMAS</a> is based in <a href="/wiki/Bilborough" title="Bilborough">Bilborough</a> on the A6002 near junction 26 of the M1. There are three (charity-funded) <a href="/wiki/Air_ambulances_in_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Air ambulances in the United Kingdom">air ambulance services</a>: the western one is based at <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Airport" title="East Midlands Airport">EMA</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_%26_Nottinghamshire_Air_Ambulance" title="Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance">eastern one</a> is based at RAF Waddington, and the <a href="/wiki/The_Air_Ambulance_Service" title="The Air Ambulance Service">southern one</a> (shared with <a href="/wiki/Warwickshire" title="Warwickshire">Warwickshire</a>) is at <a href="/wiki/Coventry_Airport" title="Coventry Airport">Coventry Airport</a>. <a href="/wiki/NHS_East_Midlands" class="mw-redirect" title="NHS East Midlands">NHS East Midlands</a> is at <a href="/wiki/Sandiacre" title="Sandiacre">Sandiacre</a> next to junction 25 of the M1. <a href="/wiki/3M_Health_Care" class="mw-redirect" title="3M Health Care">3M Health Care</a> (former <a href="/wiki/Riker_Laboratories" class="mw-redirect" title="Riker Laboratories">Riker Laboratories</a>) has a factory in the north of Loughborough on the <a href="/wiki/A6_road_(England)" title="A6 road (England)">A6</a>, with its head office on the <a href="/wiki/A60_road" title="A60 road">A60</a> next to the <a href="/wiki/Loughborough_railway_station" title="Loughborough railway station">railway station</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/BioCity_Nottingham" title="BioCity Nottingham">BioCity Nottingham</a> is an important centre for <a href="/wiki/State_of_the_art" title="State of the art">cutting-edge</a> bioscience companies. <a href="/wiki/Slimming_World" title="Slimming World">Slimming World</a>, who help people lose weight, is in <a href="/wiki/Pinxton" title="Pinxton">Pinxton</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Alfreton" title="Alfreton">Alfreton</a> off the A38; on the other side of the railway <a href="/wiki/NHS_Supply_Chain" title="NHS Supply Chain">NHS Supply Chain</a> was formed in 2006 on the Cotes Park Industrial Estate in <a href="/wiki/Somercotes" title="Somercotes">Somercotes</a>; nearby <a href="/wiki/Diversey,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Diversey, Inc.">Diversey</a> UK (former JohnsonDiversey) has a manufacturing plant, and is based at the A43/A4500 junction at <a href="/wiki/Weston_Favell" title="Weston Favell">Weston Favell</a>. Dalatek Plastics make pharmaceutical containers off the B6022 on the Maun Valley Ind Park at Sutton in Ashfield next to the <a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood_Line" title="Robin Hood Line">railway</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Brunel Healthcare (former Peter Black, <a href="/wiki/Perrigo" title="Perrigo">Perrigo</a> then NeutraHealth), owned by <a href="/wiki/Elder_Pharmaceuticals" title="Elder Pharmaceuticals">Elder Pharmaceuticals</a>, in Swadlincote makes <a href="/wiki/Dietary_supplement" title="Dietary supplement">food supplements</a>. Off the A60 at <a href="/wiki/Carlton_in_Lindrick" title="Carlton in Lindrick">Carlton in Lindrick</a> north of Worksop, Robinson Healthcare makes first aid equipment. <a href="/wiki/Patterson_Companies" title="Patterson Companies">Patterson Medical</a> UK (including <a href="/wiki/Sorbothane" title="Sorbothane">sorbothane</a> insoles) are in Huthwaite, Notts, and <a href="/wiki/Fresenius_Medical_Care" title="Fresenius Medical Care">Fresenius Medical Care</a> UK (provides most of the NHS's kidney <a href="/wiki/Kidney_dialysis" title="Kidney dialysis">dialysis</a>) are there too.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="High_technology">High technology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: High technology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_science_parks_in_the_United_Kingdom#East_Midlands" title="List of science parks in the United Kingdom">List of science parks in the United Kingdom § East Midlands</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Belkin" title="Belkin">Belkin UK</a> (and <a href="/wiki/Linksys" title="Linksys">Linksys</a>) UK is along the A45 in <a href="/wiki/Rushden" title="Rushden">Rushden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Misco" title="Misco">Misco</a> is in Wellingborough, and <a href="/wiki/RS_Components" class="mw-redirect" title="RS Components">RS Components</a> is in Corby. Pegasus Software, producer of well-known <a href="/wiki/Accounting_software" title="Accounting software">accounting software</a>, is off the A509 in the south of Kettering. <a href="/wiki/Serif_Europe" title="Serif Europe">Serif Europe</a> is in West Bridgford; Serif developed <a href="/wiki/PagePlus" title="PagePlus">PagePlus</a> in the 1990s which was the first cheap <a href="/wiki/Desktop_publishing" title="Desktop publishing">DTP</a> software. <a href="/wiki/AVG_Technologies" title="AVG Technologies">AVG Technologies</a> has its UK head office on Newark's industrial estate. Experian have their large data centre at <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fairham_House&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fairham House (page does not exist)">Fairham House</a> south of <a href="/wiki/Ruddington" title="Ruddington">Ruddington</a>, with two others in Texas and Brazil. The Ruddington site is connected by a 640 <a href="/wiki/Gbps" class="mw-redirect" title="Gbps">Gbps</a> <a href="/wiki/Dark_fibre_network" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark fibre network">dark fibre</a> and runs on IBM's <a href="/wiki/IBM_System_z10" title="IBM System z10">z10</a> with <a href="/w/index.php?title=IBM_Tivoli_Framework&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="IBM Tivoli Framework (page does not exist)">Tivoli</a>. Inter-Activa is at the <a href="/w/index.php?title=LCB_Depot&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="LCB Depot (page does not exist)">LCB Depot</a> in Leicester city centre. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Nexor" title="Nexor">Nexor</a> is in Nottingham. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Entalysis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Entalysis (page does not exist)">Entalysis</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Business_performance_management" title="Business performance management">business performance management</a> software company, is located in <a href="/wiki/Burton_upon_trent" class="mw-redirect" title="Burton upon trent">Burton upon Trent</a> town centre. <a href="/wiki/Amphenol" title="Amphenol">Amphenol Jaybeam</a> off the A509 in the west of Wellingborough makes <a href="/wiki/Network_switching_subsystem" title="Network switching subsystem">cellular telephone base station</a> antennas. <a href="/wiki/Texas_Instruments" title="Texas Instruments">Texas Instruments</a> UK have their Semiconductor Design Centre at Northampton next to the A45, previously in Bedford from 1957 to 2005. <a href="/wiki/GE_Measurement_%26_Control" title="GE Measurement & Control">GE Sensing</a> UK is at Groby off the A50. <a href="/wiki/Oclaro" title="Oclaro">Oclaro</a> UK (former Bookham), at Caswell Research Centre in <a href="/wiki/Greens_Norton" title="Greens Norton">Greens Norton</a> (northwest of Towcester) makes <a href="/wiki/Indium_phosphide" title="Indium phosphide">indium phosphide</a> wafers and researches <a href="/wiki/Photonic_integrated_circuit" title="Photonic integrated circuit">photonic integrated circuits</a> and <a href="/wiki/Distributed_Bragg_reflector" title="Distributed Bragg reflector">DSDBR</a> <a href="/wiki/Tunable_laser" title="Tunable laser">tunable lasers</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Finance">Finance</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Finance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since 1997 <a href="/wiki/Capital_One" title="Capital One">Capital One</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>-based credit card company, has had its European HQ at <a href="/wiki/Trent_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Trent House">Trent House</a> in Nottingham's city centre in a former <a href="/wiki/Boots_UK" class="mw-redirect" title="Boots UK">Boots UK</a> printing works next to the <a href="/wiki/Nottingham_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Nottingham railway station">railway station</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nottingham_City_Council" title="Nottingham City Council">Nottingham City Council</a> since 2009 have taken over the company's <a href="/wiki/Loxley_House,_Nottingham" title="Loxley House, Nottingham">Loxley House</a> next door as their HQ. <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>-based <a href="/wiki/Experian" title="Experian">Experian</a>, one of two UK <a href="/wiki/Credit_bureau" title="Credit bureau">credit-referencing</a> companies, was founded in the city in 1980 (owned by <a href="/wiki/GUS_(retailer)" title="GUS (retailer)">GUS</a> until 2006) and has a large UK HQ to its south west, on the <a href="/wiki/A453_road" title="A453 road">A453</a> near the <a href="/wiki/River_Trent" title="River Trent">River Trent</a>. <a href="/wiki/TDX_Group" title="TDX Group">TDX Group</a> in Nottingham, is now owned by <a href="/wiki/Equifax" title="Equifax">Equifax</a>. Santander (former <a href="/wiki/Alliance_%26_Leicester" title="Alliance & Leicester">Alliance & Leicester</a>) is based in <a href="/wiki/Narborough,_Leicestershire" title="Narborough, Leicestershire">Narborough</a>. <a href="/wiki/Barclaycard" title="Barclaycard">Barclaycard</a> is headquartered in Northampton, and <a href="/wiki/Nationwide_Building_Society" title="Nationwide Building Society">Nationwide</a> has a large administrative centre at <a href="/wiki/Moulton_Park" title="Moulton Park">Moulton Park</a>. <a href="/wiki/Egg_Banking" title="Egg Banking">Egg Banking</a> was on <a href="/wiki/Pride_Park" title="Pride Park">Pride Park</a> in Derby, until Barclays closed the site in 2011, and moved the business to its Northampton credit card site. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Castle_Meadow_Campus" title="Castle Meadow Campus">Castle Meadow Campus</a> is the name of a large HMRC site in Nottingham, being the national arm of HMRC that looks after the <a href="/wiki/Enterprise_Investment_Scheme" title="Enterprise Investment Scheme">Enterprise Investment Scheme</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Corporate_Venturing_Scheme&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Corporate Venturing Scheme (page does not exist)">Corporate Venturing Scheme</a>, <a href="/wiki/Venture_capital_trust" title="Venture capital trust">Venture Capital Trusts</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Enterprise_Management_Incentive&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Enterprise Management Incentive (page does not exist)">Enterprise Management Incentives</a>, HMRC's Pension Schemes Services, and the <a href="/wiki/Tax_residence" title="Tax residence">Residency</a> department, which deals with <a href="/wiki/Double_taxation" title="Double taxation">Double Taxation Treaties</a> and <a href="/wiki/Inheritance_Tax_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Inheritance Tax (United Kingdom)">inheritance tax</a>. It has the <a href="/wiki/Valuation_Office_Agency" title="Valuation Office Agency">Valuation Office Agency</a> for the East Midlands and East of England. Royal Mail have a main administrative centre at <a href="/wiki/Rowland_Hill" title="Rowland Hill">Rowland Hill</a> House, opposite the Queen's Park Sports Centre in Chesterfield (<a href="/wiki/Human_resource_management" title="Human resource management">HR</a>, pensions, and Vehicle Services). Royal Mail have their National Distribution Centre at Crick, next to the M1. The Bank of England's <a href="/wiki/Monetary_Policy_Committee_(United_Kingdom)" title="Monetary Policy Committee (United Kingdom)">MPC</a> Agency for the East Midlands is sited on the ng2 estate, near Experian and its economic data. </p><p><a href="/wiki/NatWest_Group" title="NatWest Group">NatWest Group</a> has a documents centre (<a href="/wiki/Williams_Lea" class="mw-redirect" title="Williams Lea">Williams Lea</a>) in Shepshed, where it prints its statements for England and Wales. Orion Security Print, north of <a href="/wiki/Stanton_Ironworks" class="mw-redirect" title="Stanton Ironworks">Stanton steel works</a> in Ilkeston, produces <a href="/wiki/Odeon_Cinemas" title="Odeon Cinemas">Odeon</a> cinema tickets and library cards. An office of <a href="/wiki/RR_Donnelley" title="RR Donnelley">RR Donnelley</a> on the B5366 in the west of South Wigston, next to the <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_to_Peterborough_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Birmingham to Peterborough Line">railway</a>, deals with all of Barclaycard's mail. Barclaycard have their Payment Acceptance Centre next to the A45 in Northampton. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rural">Rural</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Rural"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Typhoon,_RAF_Coningsby_-_geograph.org.uk_-_737223.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Typhoon%2C_RAF_Coningsby_-_geograph.org.uk_-_737223.jpg/220px-Typhoon%2C_RAF_Coningsby_-_geograph.org.uk_-_737223.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Typhoon%2C_RAF_Coningsby_-_geograph.org.uk_-_737223.jpg/330px-Typhoon%2C_RAF_Coningsby_-_geograph.org.uk_-_737223.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Typhoon%2C_RAF_Coningsby_-_geograph.org.uk_-_737223.jpg/440px-Typhoon%2C_RAF_Coningsby_-_geograph.org.uk_-_737223.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="402" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Eurofighter_Typhoon" title="Eurofighter Typhoon">Eurofighter Typhoon</a> is based at <a href="/wiki/RAF_Coningsby" title="RAF Coningsby">RAF Coningsby</a>; it will eventually carry the <a href="/wiki/Active_electronically_scanned_array" title="Active electronically scanned array">active electronically scanned array</a> (AESA) radar, which enables the radar to distinguish between targets and background <a href="/wiki/Noise_(radio)" class="mw-redirect" title="Noise (radio)">noise</a>, which earlier radars could not</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/UK_Military_Flying_Training_System" title="UK Military Flying Training System">UK Military Flying Training System</a></div> <p>Lincolnshire and Rutland are very agricultural, with much of the UK's <a href="/wiki/Arable_land" title="Arable land">arable</a> crops grown in this area. The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">RAF</a> have many bases in this area too, with the main <a href="/wiki/RAF_College_Cranwell" class="mw-redirect" title="RAF College Cranwell">RAF College</a> at <a href="/wiki/RAF_Cranwell" title="RAF Cranwell">Cranwell</a> near <a href="/wiki/Sleaford" title="Sleaford">Sleaford</a>; the <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Universities_Air_Squadron" title="East Midlands Universities Air Squadron">East Midlands Universities Air Squadron</a> is at Cranwell, also home of the Eastern Region of the <a href="/wiki/Sea_Cadet_Corps_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sea Cadet Corps (United Kingdom)">Sea Cadet Corps</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Officer_and_Aircrew_Selection_Centre" title="Officer and Aircrew Selection Centre">Officer and Aircrew Selection Centre</a>. The RAF's six <a href="/wiki/Airborne_early_warning_and_control" title="Airborne early warning and control">AWACS</a> <a href="/wiki/Boeing_E-3_Sentry" title="Boeing E-3 Sentry">aircraft</a> are at <a href="/wiki/RAF_Waddington" title="RAF Waddington">RAF Waddington</a>. <a href="/wiki/16th_Regiment_Royal_Artillery" title="16th Regiment Royal Artillery">16th Regiment Royal Artillery</a> is in Rutland. </p><p>After Norfolk, Lincolnshire is the second biggest potato producer in the country, and grows 30% of the country's vegetables. <a href="/wiki/Interflora" title="Interflora">Interflora</a> has its UK HQ in Sleaford; Lincolnshire is the world's leading producer of daffodils (<a href="/wiki/Narcissus_(plant)" title="Narcissus (plant)">narcissus</a> family); 40% of the flowers bought in the UK are grown there; Butters Group supply many bulbs (<a href="/wiki/Amaryllis" title="Amaryllis">Amaryllis</a>) from <a href="/wiki/Low_Fulney" title="Low Fulney">Low Fulney</a>. The county produces each year enough sugar beet for 350 million bags of sugar and enough wheat for 250 million loaves. <a href="/wiki/Dart_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Dart Group">Fowler-Welch Coolchain</a> are based in <a href="/wiki/Spalding,_Lincolnshire" title="Spalding, Lincolnshire">Spalding</a>, as is the UK operation of <a href="/wiki/Bakkav%C3%B6r" title="Bakkavör">Bakkavör</a> (former Geest) which is the UK's largest provider of fresh prepared foods.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Princes_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Princes (company)">Princes</a> (former <a href="/wiki/Premier_Foods" title="Premier Foods">Premier Foods</a>) have a large operation in <a href="/wiki/Little_Sutton,_Lincolnshire" title="Little Sutton, Lincolnshire">Little Sutton</a> near to <a href="/wiki/Long_Sutton,_Lincolnshire" title="Long Sutton, Lincolnshire">Long Sutton</a> canning vegetables with Fray Bentos meat, and Batchelors peas. <a href="/wiki/Magnadata_Group" title="Magnadata Group">Magnadata Group</a> in Boston have the contract for the UK's rail tickets (for <a href="/wiki/Association_of_Train_Operating_Companies" class="mw-redirect" title="Association of Train Operating Companies">ATOC</a>); the orange-style tickets have been in operation since 1990. Silver Spoon's <a href="/wiki/Bardney" title="Bardney">Bardney</a> plant makes the market-leading <a href="/w/index.php?title=Askey%27s&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Askey's (page does not exist)">Askey's</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Dessert_topping&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dessert topping (page does not exist)">dessert toppings</a>. <a href="/wiki/Deere_%26_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Deere & Company">John Deere</a> have their UK base at <a href="/wiki/Langar,_Nottinghamshire" title="Langar, Nottinghamshire">Langar</a> on the Nottinghamshire/Leicestershire boundary next to the former <a href="/wiki/RAF_Langar" title="RAF Langar">RAF Langar</a>. The <a href="/wiki/British_Geological_Survey" title="British Geological Survey">British Geological Survey</a> is in <a href="/wiki/Keyworth" title="Keyworth">Keyworth</a>. <a href="/wiki/Weatherbys" title="Weatherbys">Weatherbys</a> in Wellingborough administer the British horseracing industry, having produced the <a href="/wiki/General_Stud_Book" title="General Stud Book">General Stud Book</a> since 1791. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Entertainment">Entertainment</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Entertainment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Orangutan_(Pongo_pygmaeus)_at_Twycross_Zoo-4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Orangutan_%28Pongo_pygmaeus%29_at_Twycross_Zoo-4.jpg/220px-Orangutan_%28Pongo_pygmaeus%29_at_Twycross_Zoo-4.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="320" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Orangutan_%28Pongo_pygmaeus%29_at_Twycross_Zoo-4.jpg/330px-Orangutan_%28Pongo_pygmaeus%29_at_Twycross_Zoo-4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Orangutan_%28Pongo_pygmaeus%29_at_Twycross_Zoo-4.jpg/440px-Orangutan_%28Pongo_pygmaeus%29_at_Twycross_Zoo-4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2038" data-file-height="2965" /></a><figcaption>An <a href="/wiki/Orangutan" title="Orangutan">orangutan</a> at Twycross Zoo</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Skegness" title="Skegness">Skegness</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_coast" title="Lincolnshire coast">Lincolnshire coast</a> provides seaside entertainment for many people in the East Midlands with its <a href="/wiki/Butlins" class="mw-redirect" title="Butlins">Butlins</a> 200-acre resort at <a href="/wiki/Ingoldmells" title="Ingoldmells">Ingoldmells</a>. Nottingham and Leicester are both popular night time destinations. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Center_Parcs_UK" class="mw-redirect" title="Center Parcs UK">Center Parcs UK</a> opened their first leisure facility at the Sherwood Holiday Village site at <a href="/wiki/Rufford,_Nottinghamshire" title="Rufford, Nottinghamshire">Rufford</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Ollerton" title="Ollerton">Ollerton</a>, together with their headquarters and call centre in Sherwood Energy Village business park, built upon the former Ollerton Colliery site in Ollerton, Nottinghamshire.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Youth_Hostels_Association_(England_%26_Wales)" title="Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales)">YHA</a> is based in <a href="/wiki/Matlock,_Derbyshire" title="Matlock, Derbyshire">Matlock</a>. <a href="/wiki/Gala_Coral_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Gala Coral Group">Gala Bingo</a> is based in Nottingham; Coral have over 1,800 UK shops. <a href="/wiki/Twycross_Zoo" title="Twycross Zoo">Twycross Zoo</a> is just south of <a href="/wiki/Measham" title="Measham">Measham</a> in Leicestershire, and the <a href="/wiki/National_Space_Centre" title="National Space Centre">National Space Centre</a> is in <a href="/wiki/Belgrave,_Leicestershire" class="mw-redirect" title="Belgrave, Leicestershire">Belgrave</a> in north Leicester.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Carlsbro" title="Carlsbro">Carlsbro</a> (electronics and speakers) are at South Normanton, on the east side of the M1, at the B6406/A38 junction. <a href="/wiki/Peavey_Electronics" title="Peavey Electronics">Peavey Electronics</a> UK (loudspeakers), are off the A6003, in the southwest of Corby. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Rockingham_Motor_Speedway" title="Rockingham Motor Speedway">Rockingham Motor Speedway</a> is in Corby, and other racetracks include <a href="/wiki/Donington_Park_motorsport_circuit" class="mw-redirect" title="Donington Park motorsport circuit">Donington Park</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mallory_Park" title="Mallory Park">Mallory Park</a> in Leicestershire, and <a href="/wiki/Cadwell_Park" title="Cadwell Park">Cadwell Park</a> in Lincolnshire. <a href="/wiki/Silverstone_Circuit" title="Silverstone Circuit">Silverstone Circuit</a> hosts the <a href="/wiki/British_Grand_Prix" title="British Grand Prix">British Grand Prix</a>, although the southern half of the track is outside the region. <a href="/wiki/Rutland_Water" title="Rutland Water">Rutland Water</a> is popular for sailing, fishing and bird-watching. The Peak District National Park became the first national park in the United Kingdom in 1951. </p> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Electricity_generation_in_the_East_Midlands" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Electricity_generation_in_the_East_Midlands" title="Template:Electricity generation in the East Midlands"><abbr title="View this 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Station">Spondon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staythorpe_Power_Station" title="Staythorpe Power Station">Staythorpe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Burton_power_stations" title="West Burton power stations">West Burton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilford_Power_Station" title="Wilford Power Station">Wilford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willington_Power_Station" title="Willington Power Station">Willington</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Natural_gas" title="Natural gas">Gas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Active</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Corby_Power_Station" title="Corby Power Station">Corby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cottam_power_stations" title="Cottam power stations">Cottam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derwent_Power_Station" title="Derwent Power Station">Derwent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spalding_Power_Station" title="Spalding Power Station">Spalding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staythorpe_Power_Station" title="Staythorpe Power Station">Staythorpe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sutton_Bridge_Power_Station" title="Sutton Bridge Power Station">Sutton Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Burton_power_stations" title="West Burton power stations">West Burton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Proposed/future</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Drakelow_Power_Station" title="Drakelow Power Station">Drakelow</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hydropower" title="Hydropower">Hydro</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Active" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Active</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beeston_Hydro" title="Beeston Hydro">Beeston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belper_North_Mill" title="Belper North Mill">Belper North Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borrowash_Hydro" title="Borrowash Hydro">Borrowash Hydro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burton_upon_Trent_Flour_Mills" title="Burton upon Trent Flour Mills">Burton upon Trent Flour Mills</a></li> <li>Cuckney School</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longbridge_Weir_Hydro" title="Longbridge Weir Hydro">Longbridge Weir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masson_Mill" title="Masson Mill">Masson Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milford_Hydro" title="Milford Hydro">Milford Hydro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torrs_Hydro" title="Torrs Hydro">Torrs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Incineration" title="Incineration">Incinerators</a>/<a href="/wiki/Waste-to-energy" title="Waste-to-energy">waste</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wind_power" title="Wind power">Wind</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Active</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Burton_Wold_Wind_Farm" title="Burton Wold Wind Farm">Burton Wold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conisholme" title="Conisholme">Conisholme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deeping_St_Nicholas" title="Deeping St Nicholas">Deeping St Nicholas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincs_Wind_Farm" title="Lincs Wind Farm">Lincs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lindhurst_Wind_Farm" title="Lindhurst Wind Farm">Lindhurst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lynn_and_Inner_Dowsing_Wind_Farms" title="Lynn and Inner Dowsing Wind Farms">Lynn and Inner Dowsing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Proposed/future</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Race_Bank_wind_farm" title="Race Bank wind farm">Race Bank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triton_Knoll" title="Triton Knoll">Triton Knoll</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="2" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:EnglandEastMidlands.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/EnglandEastMidlands.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="247" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="247" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organisations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Electricity" title="East Midlands Electricity">East Midlands Electricity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opus_Energy" title="Opus Energy">Opus Energy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_pre-nationalisation_UK_electric_power_companies#Companies_merged_into_East_Midlands_Electricity_Board_(EMEB)" title="List of pre-nationalisation UK electric power companies">Pre-nationalisation electric power companies</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sponne_School.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Sponne_School.jpg/220px-Sponne_School.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Sponne_School.jpg/330px-Sponne_School.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Sponne_School.jpg 2x" data-file-width="421" data-file-height="314" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Sponne_School" title="Sponne School">Sponne School</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Towcester" title="Towcester">Towcester</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Secondary_education">Secondary education</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Secondary education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Most secondary schools in the East Midlands are <a href="/wiki/Comprehensive_school" title="Comprehensive school">comprehensives</a>, although Lincolnshire retains fifteen state <a href="/wiki/Grammar_school" title="Grammar school">grammar schools</a>. </p><p>There are around 180,000 students in the region's secondary schools; this is the second lowest number of students in a region in England, after the <a href="/wiki/North_East_England" title="North East England">North East</a>, and more than 100,000 lower than the figure for the <a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(region)" title="West Midlands (region)">West Midlands</a>. Some of the East Midlands' urban secondary schools hold <a href="/wiki/Truancy" title="Truancy">truancy</a> rates above that of the national average, whereas truancy rates in the region's rural secondary schools tend to be lower than the national average. </p><p>Nottingham City schools tend to perform less well in terms of <a href="/wiki/General_Certificate_of_Secondary_Education" class="mw-redirect" title="General Certificate of Secondary Education">GCSE</a> standards, with some Leicester schools suffering a similar problem. Rutland (amongst the highest-performing areas in the region where GCSE standards are concerned) has one of the highest percentages of pupils reaching the threshold of five grade A–C GCSEs (including Maths and English) in England. On a District Council level, <a href="/wiki/Rushcliffe" title="Rushcliffe">Rushcliffe</a> in Nottinghamshire tends to attain some of the region's best GCSE results. Leicestershire and Derbyshire also regularly tend to produce GCSE results at a standard greater than the national average. </p><p>At <a href="/wiki/GCE_Advanced_Level" class="mw-redirect" title="GCE Advanced Level">A-level</a>, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire regularly generate results greater than the national average. Nottingham tends to produce better results at A-level than it does at GCSE. </p><p>There are eighteen <a href="/wiki/Further_education" title="Further education">further education</a> colleges in the region, including: <a href="/wiki/New_College_Nottingham" class="mw-redirect" title="New College Nottingham">New College Nottingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Central_College_Nottingham" class="mw-redirect" title="Central College Nottingham">Central College Nottingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leicester_College" title="Leicester College">Leicester College</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_College,_Lincolnshire" title="Lincoln College, Lincolnshire">Lincoln College</a>. </p><p>The regional <a href="/wiki/Learning_and_Skills_Council" title="Learning and Skills Council">Learning and Skills Council</a> was headquartered at the Meridian Business Park in <a href="/wiki/Braunstone_Town" title="Braunstone Town">Braunstone Town</a>, southwest of Leicester. The LSC has been replaced by the <a href="/wiki/Young_People%27s_Learning_Agency" title="Young People's Learning Agency">Young People's Learning Agency</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Skills_Funding_Agency" title="Skills Funding Agency">Skills Funding Agency</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Top_twenty_state_schools_in_the_East_Midlands_(2015_A-level_results)"><span id="Top_twenty_state_schools_in_the_East_Midlands_.282015_A-level_results.29"></span>Top twenty state schools in the East Midlands (2015 A-level results)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Top twenty state schools in the East Midlands (2015 A-level results)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nottingham_University_from_Highfields_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_54074.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Nottingham_University_from_Highfields_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_54074.jpg/220px-Nottingham_University_from_Highfields_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_54074.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Nottingham_University_from_Highfields_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_54074.jpg/330px-Nottingham_University_from_Highfields_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_54074.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Nottingham_University_from_Highfields_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_54074.jpg/440px-Nottingham_University_from_Highfields_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_54074.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/University_of_Nottingham" title="University of Nottingham">University of Nottingham</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Trent_Building" class="mw-redirect" title="Trent Building">Trent Building</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Centralparklboro.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Centralparklboro.jpg/220px-Centralparklboro.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Centralparklboro.jpg/330px-Centralparklboro.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Centralparklboro.jpg/440px-Centralparklboro.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Loughborough_University" title="Loughborough University">Loughborough University</a> is recognised for its green campus</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:University_of_Leicester_towers_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/University_of_Leicester_towers_2010.jpg/220px-University_of_Leicester_towers_2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="106" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/University_of_Leicester_towers_2010.jpg/330px-University_of_Leicester_towers_2010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/University_of_Leicester_towers_2010.jpg/440px-University_of_Leicester_towers_2010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3366" data-file-height="1628" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/University_of_Leicester" title="University of Leicester">University of Leicester</a></figcaption></figure> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Caistor_Grammar_School" title="Caistor Grammar School">Caistor Grammar School</a> (1079)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Becket_School" title="The Becket School">The Becket School</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Bridgford" title="West Bridgford">West Bridgford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brooke_Weston_Academy" title="Brooke Weston Academy">Brooke Weston Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_King%27s_School,_Grantham" title="The King's School, Grantham">The King's School, Grantham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kesteven_and_Sleaford_High_School" title="Kesteven and Sleaford High School">Kesteven and Sleaford High School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth%27s_Grammar_School,_Ashbourne" title="Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne">Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Bridgford_School" title="West Bridgford School">West Bridgford School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Ecclesbourne_School" title="The Ecclesbourne School">The Ecclesbourne School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth%27s_High_School" title="Queen Elizabeth's High School">Queen Elizabeth's High School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gainsborough,_Lincolnshire" title="Gainsborough, Lincolnshire">Gainsborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Farr_School" title="William Farr School">William Farr School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Welton,_Lincolnshire" title="Welton, Lincolnshire">Welton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Priory_Academy_LSST" title="The Priory Academy LSST">The Priory Academy LSST</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_England" title="Lincoln, England">Lincoln</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Edward_VI_Grammar_School,_Louth" title="King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth">King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth%27s_Grammar_School,_Alford" title="Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Alford">Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Alford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spalding_High_School_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spalding High School (UK)">Spalding High School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branston_Community_Academy" title="Branston Community Academy">Branston Community Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lady_Manners_School" title="Lady Manners School">Lady Manners School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bakewell" title="Bakewell">Bakewell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Gell_School" title="Anthony Gell School">Anthony Gell School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wirksworth" title="Wirksworth">Wirksworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dronfield_Henry_Fanshawe_School" title="Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School">Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bourne_Grammar_School" title="Bourne Grammar School">Bourne Grammar School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth%27s_Grammar_School,_Horncastle" title="Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle">Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle</a> (858)</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Universities">Universities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Universities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brackenhurst_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_839809.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Brackenhurst_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_839809.jpg/180px-Brackenhurst_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_839809.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="270" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Brackenhurst_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_839809.jpg/270px-Brackenhurst_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_839809.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Brackenhurst_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_839809.jpg/360px-Brackenhurst_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_839809.jpg 2x" data-file-width="426" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>Brackenhurst Hall — <a href="/wiki/Nottingham_Trent_University" title="Nottingham Trent University">Nottingham Trent University</a>'s agricultural college in <a href="/wiki/Southwell,_Nottinghamshire" title="Southwell, Nottinghamshire">Southwell</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The East Midlands' universities include: </p> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/University_of_Nottingham" title="University of Nottingham">University of Nottingham</a></dt> <dd>The region's largest university by student population, with around 33,000 students. The university is often ranked in the British top seven for research power. It is famous for its academic reputation, consistently ranking highly in university league tables. It is the only <a href="/wiki/Russell_Group" title="Russell Group">Russell Group</a> university in the East Midlands. The university has produced several <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize" title="Nobel Prize">Nobel Prize</a> winners.</dd> <dt><a href="/wiki/Loughborough_University" title="Loughborough University">Loughborough University</a></dt> <dd>In addition to its more traditional academic work, Loughborough University is well-regarded for its sporting heritage. One notable sporting alumna is British gold-medallist <a href="/wiki/Paula_Radcliffe" title="Paula Radcliffe">Paula Radcliffe</a>. The <a href="/wiki/British_Olympic_Association" title="British Olympic Association">British Olympic</a> athletics team trained at the university as part of their preparations for the <a href="/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics" title="2012 Summer Olympics">2012 Summer Olympics</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Adidas_Jabulani" title="Adidas Jabulani">adidas Jabulani</a> football, the official football for the <a href="/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2010 FIFA World Cup">2010 World Cup</a>, was designed in the university's <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_Technology_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sports Technology Institute (page does not exist)">Sports Technology Institute</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd> <dt><a href="/wiki/Nottingham_Trent_University" title="Nottingham Trent University">Nottingham Trent University</a></dt> <dd>Nottingham Trent University is the East Midlands' second largest university (and one of the largest universities in the United Kingdom), with a student population of approximately 24,000.</dd> <dt><a href="/wiki/University_of_Leicester" title="University of Leicester">University of Leicester</a></dt> <dd>The university has established itself as a leading research-led university and has been named University of the Year of 2008 by the Times Higher Education. The University of Leicester is also the only university ever to have won a Times Higher Education award in seven consecutive years. The university is most famous for the invention of genetic fingerprinting DNA, the discovery of the remains of King Richard III and Space research. It houses Europe's biggest academic centre for space research, in which space probes have been built, most notably the Mars Lander Beagle 2, which was built in collaboration with the Open University. It is a founding partner of the National Space Centre which is based in Leicester.</dd> <dt><a href="/wiki/De_Montfort_University" title="De Montfort University">De Montfort University</a></dt> <dd>The region's third largest university. It is a public research and teaching university. The university has one of the largest numbers of Teacher Fellows of any UK university and was awarded Centre of Excellence status for its performance practice teaching and student support</dd> <dt><a href="/wiki/University_of_Northampton" title="University of Northampton">University of Northampton</a></dt> <dd>The only university in <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a>, with two campuses in <a href="/wiki/Northampton" title="Northampton">Northampton</a> and a developing partnership with <a href="/wiki/Silverstone_Circuit" title="Silverstone Circuit">Silverstone</a>.</dd> <dt><a href="/wiki/University_of_Derby" title="University of Derby">University of Derby</a></dt> <dd>Formerly a centre and college for teacher training, Derby University works closely with businesses of the area with its University of Derby–Corporate programme and has a history of academics dating back to 1851.</dd> <dt><a href="/wiki/University_of_Lincoln" title="University of Lincoln">University of Lincoln</a></dt> <dd>An English university founded in 1992, with origins tracing back to the foundation and association with the <a href="/wiki/Hull_School_of_Art" class="mw-redirect" title="Hull School of Art">Hull School of Art</a> 1861.</dd> <dt><a href="/wiki/Bishop_Grosseteste_University" title="Bishop Grosseteste University">Bishop Grosseteste University</a></dt> <dd>The newest university in the East Midlands, formerly a university college.</dd></dl> <p>The region has the lowest proportion of part-time students in England. The region has a higher influx of young people into the region at the university stage than out of the region into other regions' universities. Only 25% of the region's students undertaking a first degree are native to the region. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports">Sports</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Category:Sport_in_Loughborough" title="Category:Sport in Loughborough">Category:Sport in Loughborough</a></div> <p>The region has a good sporting tradition, with some of the most well-known sports personalities –- David Gower (<a href="/wiki/Leicestershire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Leicestershire County Cricket Club">Leicestershire C.C.C.</a>), <a href="/wiki/Gary_Lineker" title="Gary Lineker">Gary Lineker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rory_Underwood" title="Rory Underwood">Rory Underwood</a> (<a href="/wiki/Leicester_Tigers" title="Leicester Tigers">Leicester Tigers</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Agnew" title="Jonathan Agnew">Jonathan Agnew</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/British_Gliding_Association" title="British Gliding Association">British Gliding Association</a> is based in Leicester on Meridian Business Park, off the A563 in Braunstone. The <a href="/wiki/National_Ice_Skating_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="National Ice Skating Association">National Ice Skating Association</a> is based in Nottingham (and many of Britain's Olympic ice skaters train in Nottingham); <a href="/wiki/Nottingham_Panthers" title="Nottingham Panthers">Nottingham Panthers</a> are in the <a href="/wiki/Elite_Ice_Hockey_League" title="Elite Ice Hockey League">Elite Ice Hockey League</a>. The <a href="/wiki/British_Caving_Association" title="British Caving Association">British Caving Association</a> is at Great Hucklow, the UK sports governing body. The <a href="/wiki/British_Canoe_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="British Canoe Union">British Canoe Union</a> is in Bingham. </p><p>The first <a href="/wiki/1978_BDO_World_Darts_Championship" title="1978 BDO World Darts Championship">1978 BDO World Darts Championship</a> was held in Nottingham, in February 1978, being largely the idea of Nick Hunter, a BBC sports producer, and the event first introduced <a href="/wiki/Sid_Waddell" title="Sid Waddell">Sid Waddell</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Football">Football</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Football"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nottingham_Forest_FC_(Amsterdam,_1980)_-_Francis,_Clough,_Robertson.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Nottingham_Forest_FC_%28Amsterdam%2C_1980%29_-_Francis%2C_Clough%2C_Robertson.jpg/220px-Nottingham_Forest_FC_%28Amsterdam%2C_1980%29_-_Francis%2C_Clough%2C_Robertson.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Nottingham_Forest_FC_%28Amsterdam%2C_1980%29_-_Francis%2C_Clough%2C_Robertson.jpg/330px-Nottingham_Forest_FC_%28Amsterdam%2C_1980%29_-_Francis%2C_Clough%2C_Robertson.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Nottingham_Forest_FC_%28Amsterdam%2C_1980%29_-_Francis%2C_Clough%2C_Robertson.jpg/440px-Nottingham_Forest_FC_%28Amsterdam%2C_1980%29_-_Francis%2C_Clough%2C_Robertson.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3682" data-file-height="2442" /></a><figcaption>Brian Clough in April 1980</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Notts_County_F.C." title="Notts County F.C.">Notts County F.C.</a> is the world's oldest professional football club, with <a href="/wiki/Nottingham_Forest_F.C." title="Nottingham Forest F.C.">Nottingham Forest F.C.</a> being the oldest football league side after Notts County's relegation to the <a href="/wiki/National_League_(division)" title="National League (division)">National League</a> in 2019. <a href="/wiki/Sam_Weller_Widdowson" title="Sam Weller Widdowson">Sam Weller Widdowson</a> brought in <a href="/wiki/Shin_pad" class="mw-redirect" title="Shin pad">shin pads</a> in 1874. The first <a href="/wiki/Referee_(association_football)" title="Referee (association football)">referee</a>'s whistle was at Nottingham in 1872. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Admiral_Sportswear" title="Admiral Sportswear">Admiral Sportswear</a> at <a href="/wiki/Wigston" title="Wigston">Wigston</a> in Leicestershire made the England <a href="/wiki/Kit_(association_football)" title="Kit (association football)">football strip</a> from 1974 to 1982, when the company went bankrupt; in 1974 it was the first company to introduce replica kits. <a href="/wiki/Umbro" title="Umbro">Umbro</a> took over the <a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England kit</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Template:England_squad_1982_FIFA_World_Cup" title="Template:England squad 1982 FIFA World Cup">1982 World Cup</a> in 1984. Nike make the England kit today. </p><p>The East Midlands is home to several professional and semi-professional association football (soccer) clubs. </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Team</th> <th>Location</th> <th>League 2024-25 </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Leicester_City_F.C." title="Leicester City F.C.">Leicester City</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a></td> <td data-sort-value="1">Premier League </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nottingham_Forest_F.C." title="Nottingham Forest F.C.">Nottingham Forest</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Bridgford" title="West Bridgford">West Bridgford</a></td> <td data-sort-value="1">Premier League </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Derby_County_F.C." title="Derby County F.C.">Derby County</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Derby" title="Derby">Derby</a></td> <td data-sort-value="2">Championship </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_City_F.C." title="Lincoln City F.C.">Lincoln City</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_England" title="Lincoln, England">Lincoln</a></td> <td data-sort-value="3">League One </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mansfield_Town_F.C." title="Mansfield Town F.C.">Mansfield Town</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mansfield" title="Mansfield">Mansfield</a></td> <td data-sort-value="3">League One </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Northampton_Town_F.C." title="Northampton Town F.C.">Northampton Town</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Northampton" title="Northampton">Northampton</a></td> <td data-sort-value="3">League One </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chesterfield_F.C." title="Chesterfield F.C.">Chesterfield</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chesterfield,_Derbyshire" title="Chesterfield, Derbyshire">Chesterfield</a></td> <td data-sort-value="4">League Two </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Notts_County_F.C." title="Notts County F.C.">Notts County</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a></td> <td data-sort-value="4">League Two </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Alfreton_Town_F.C." title="Alfreton Town F.C.">Alfreton Town</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alfreton" title="Alfreton">Alfreton</a></td> <td data-sort-value="6">National League North </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Boston_United_F.C." title="Boston United F.C.">Boston United</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boston,_Lincolnshire" title="Boston, Lincolnshire">Boston</a></td> <td data-sort-value="6">National League North </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Buxton_F.C." title="Buxton F.C.">Buxton</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Buxton,_Derbyshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Buxton, Derbyshire">Buxton</a></td> <td data-sort-value="6">National League North </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Brackley_Town_F.C." title="Brackley Town F.C.">Brackley Town</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Brackley,_Northamptonshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Brackley, Northamptonshire">Brackley</a></td> <td data-sort-value="6">National League North </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rugby_Union">Rugby Union</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: Rugby Union"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The East Midlands is home to two top-tier (<a href="/wiki/Aviva_Premiership" class="mw-redirect" title="Aviva Premiership">Aviva Premiership</a>) clubs. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Leicester_Tigers" title="Leicester Tigers">Leicester Tigers</a> are an English rugby union club based in Leicester at the Welford Road stadium and play in the Aviva Premiership. They were formed in 1880; their colours are green, burgundy and white. Leicester Tigers are one of the most successful Rugby Union teams in Europe and the most successful English club since the introduction of league rugby in 1987, having won the European Cup twice, the first tier of English rugby ten times, and the Anglo-Welsh Cup seven times. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Northampton_Saints" title="Northampton Saints">Northampton Saints</a> are a professional rugby union club from Northampton, England. They were formed in 1880, and play in black, green, and gold colours. The team play their home games at Franklin's Gardens, which has a capacity of 15,500. Their biggest rivals are Leicester Tigers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cricket">Cricket</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: Cricket"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club">Nottinghamshire</a> (<a href="/wiki/Trent_Bridge" title="Trent Bridge">Trent Bridge</a>), <a href="/wiki/Leicestershire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Leicestershire County Cricket Club">Leicestershire</a> (<a href="/wiki/Grace_Road" title="Grace Road">Grace Road</a>), <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Derbyshire County Cricket Club">Derbyshire</a> (<a href="/wiki/County_Cricket_Ground,_Derby" title="County Cricket Ground, Derby">County Cricket Ground, Derby</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Northamptonshire County Cricket Club">Northamptonshire</a> (<a href="/wiki/County_Cricket_Ground,_Northampton" title="County Cricket Ground, Northampton">County Cricket Ground, Northampton</a>) are in the Cricket <a href="/wiki/NatWest_t20_Blast" class="mw-redirect" title="NatWest t20 Blast">T20 North group</a>; Northamptonshire was formerly in the previous <a href="/wiki/Friends_Life_t20" class="mw-redirect" title="Friends Life t20">Midlands group</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LeicesterCommunitySportsArena.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/LeicesterCommunitySportsArena.jpg/220px-LeicesterCommunitySportsArena.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/LeicesterCommunitySportsArena.jpg/330px-LeicesterCommunitySportsArena.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/LeicesterCommunitySportsArena.jpg/440px-LeicesterCommunitySportsArena.jpg 2x" data-file-width="534" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>Leicester Riders arena in September 2016</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Basketball">Basketball</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=52" title="Edit section: Basketball"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Leicester_Riders" title="Leicester Riders">Leicester Riders</a>, who play at <a href="/wiki/Leicester_Arena" title="Leicester Arena">Leicester Arena</a>, are the oldest club in British basketball, founded in 1967. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Motor_sports">Motor sports</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=53" title="Edit section: Motor sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/RML_Group" title="RML Group">RML Group</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ray_Mallock" title="Ray Mallock">Ray Mallock</a>) <a href="/wiki/British_Touring_Car_Championship" title="British Touring Car Championship">BTCC</a> and <a href="/wiki/World_Touring_Car_Championship" title="World Touring Car Championship">WTCC</a> motorsport team is in Wellingborough, next to the UK HQ of <a href="/wiki/Vredestein_Banden_B.V." class="mw-redirect" title="Vredestein Banden B.V.">Vredestein</a> tyres (Dutch). <a href="/wiki/Bamboo_Engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Bamboo Engineering">Bamboo Engineering</a> WTCC are at Silverstone. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Swimming">Swimming</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=54" title="Edit section: Swimming"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Amateur_Swimming_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Amateur Swimming Association">Amateur Swimming Association</a> is the world's first swimming governing body, founded 1869, now based in Loughborough. <a href="/wiki/British_Swimming" class="mw-redirect" title="British Swimming">British Swimming</a> have one of its three Intensive Training Centres at Loughborough University's <a href="/w/index.php?title=Loughborough_Pool&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Loughborough Pool (page does not exist)">Loughborough Pool</a> in their <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sport_Development_Centre&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sport Development Centre (page does not exist)">Sport Development Centre</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Local_media">Local media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=55" title="Edit section: Local media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" 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Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2023</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=56" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Waltham_on_the_Wolds_Transmitter_-_geograph.org.uk_-_41129.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Waltham_on_the_Wolds_Transmitter_-_geograph.org.uk_-_41129.jpg/220px-Waltham_on_the_Wolds_Transmitter_-_geograph.org.uk_-_41129.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Waltham_on_the_Wolds_Transmitter_-_geograph.org.uk_-_41129.jpg/330px-Waltham_on_the_Wolds_Transmitter_-_geograph.org.uk_-_41129.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Waltham_on_the_Wolds_Transmitter_-_geograph.org.uk_-_41129.jpg/440px-Waltham_on_the_Wolds_Transmitter_-_geograph.org.uk_-_41129.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Waltham_transmitting_station" title="Waltham transmitting station">Waltham on the Wolds transmitter</a> covers large parts of the region</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/BBC_East_Midlands" title="BBC East Midlands">BBC East Midlands</a> region of <a href="/wiki/BBC_Television" title="BBC Television">BBC Television</a>, based in Nottingham, produces several regional television programmes including the news programme <i><a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Today" class="mw-redirect" title="East Midlands Today">East Midlands Today</a></i> from <a href="/wiki/Waltham_transmitting_station" title="Waltham transmitting station">Waltham</a>. This excludes most of <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a>, north <a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire" title="Nottinghamshire">Nottinghamshire</a> and north <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a>. </p><p>Most of Lincolnshire is covered by the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Yorkshire_and_Lincolnshire" title="BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire">BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire</a> region based in <a href="/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull" title="Kingston upon Hull">Hull</a>, with its <i><a href="/wiki/BBC_Look_North_(East_Yorkshire_and_Lincolnshire)" title="BBC Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)">Look North</a></i> programme from <a href="/wiki/Belmont_transmitting_station" title="Belmont transmitting station">Belmont</a>; north Nottinghamshire (<a href="/wiki/Retford" title="Retford">Retford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Worksop,_Nottinghamshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Worksop, Nottinghamshire">Worksop</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bassetlaw_District" title="Bassetlaw District">Bassetlaw</a>), northeast Derbyshire (<a href="/wiki/Chesterfield,_Derbyshire" title="Chesterfield, Derbyshire">Chesterfield</a>), the eastern <a href="/wiki/High_Peak,_Derbyshire" title="High Peak, Derbyshire">High Peak</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hope_Valley,_Derbyshire" title="Hope Valley, Derbyshire">Hope Valley</a>) and northern area of the <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire_Dales" title="Derbyshire Dales">Derbyshire Dales</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tideswell" title="Tideswell">Tideswell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hathersage" title="Hathersage">Hathersage</a>) are covered by <a href="/wiki/BBC_Yorkshire" title="BBC Yorkshire">BBC Yorkshire</a> from <a href="/wiki/Emley_Moor_transmitting_station" title="Emley Moor transmitting station">Emley Moor</a>, with its <i><a href="/wiki/BBC_Look_North_(Yorkshire_and_North_Midlands)" title="BBC Look North (Yorkshire and North Midlands)">Look North</a></i> from <a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a>. </p><p>The western area of the <a href="/wiki/High_Peak,_Derbyshire" title="High Peak, Derbyshire">High Peak</a> (<a href="/wiki/Buxton,_Derbyshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Buxton, Derbyshire">Buxton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Glossop,_Derbyshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Glossop, Derbyshire">Glossop</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Mills,_Derbyshire" class="mw-redirect" title="New Mills, Derbyshire">New Miils</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chapel-en-le-Frith" title="Chapel-en-le-Frith">Chapel-en-le-Frith</a>) in Derbyshire are covered by <a href="/wiki/BBC_North_West" title="BBC North West">BBC North West</a> from <a href="/wiki/Winter_Hill_transmitting_station" title="Winter Hill transmitting station">Winter Hill</a> and <a href="/wiki/Granada_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Granada Television">Granada Television</a>, both based in <a href="/wiki/Salford" title="Salford">Salford</a>. Most of <a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a> is part of the <a href="/wiki/BBC_East" title="BBC East">BBC East</a> region based in Norwich and has the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Look_East" title="BBC Look East">Look East</a> programme from <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Heath_transmitting_station" title="Sandy Heath transmitting station">Sandy Heath</a>. </p><p>Most of Northamptonshire can receive Central News East, with western parts of the county (Daventry) receiving Central News West, and Southern parts of the county (around <a href="/wiki/Brackley,_Northamptonshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Brackley, Northamptonshire">Brackley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Towcester,_Northamptonshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Towcester, Northamptonshire">Towcester</a>) receiving the Thames Valley micro-region of <a href="/wiki/ITV_Meridian" title="ITV Meridian">ITV Meridian</a> (the former Central South region) and the Oxford opt-out of <a href="/wiki/South_Today" class="mw-redirect" title="South Today">BBC South Today</a> from <a href="/wiki/Oxford_transmitting_station" title="Oxford transmitting station">Oxford</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Central_Tonight" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Tonight">Central News East</a></i> also covers the East Midlands, broadcasting from Lenton Lane in Nottingham from March 1984. The studios were closed and is now the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Meadow_Campus" title="King's Meadow Campus">King's Meadow Campus</a> of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Nottingham" title="University of Nottingham">University of Nottingham</a>. These studios had been responsible for <i><a href="/wiki/Family_Fortunes" title="Family Fortunes">Family Fortunes</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Who_Wants_to_Be_a_Millionaire%3F_(UK_game_show)" class="mw-redirect" title="Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (UK game show)">Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?</a></i>. Central News East continues, broadcasting from <a href="/wiki/Central_Independent_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Independent Television">ITV Central</a>'s Birmingham Studios. </p><p>Northamptonshire has <a href="/wiki/Anglia_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglia Television">Anglia Television</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Anglia_Tonight" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglia Tonight">Anglia Tonight</a></i> programme and most of <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a> and eastern parts of Nottinghamshire has <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Yorkshire Television">Yorkshire Television</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Calendar_(News)" class="mw-redirect" title="Calendar (News)">Calendar</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Digital_switchover_dates_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Digital switchover dates in the United Kingdom">Digital switchover</a> took place in April 2011 for the Nottingham and Northampton areas; Waltham and Belmont (including the local repeater stations) changed in late August 2011. <a href="/wiki/Midlands_Asian_Television" title="Midlands Asian Television">MATV</a>, based in <a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a>, caters to the area's large South Asian population. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radio">Radio</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=57" title="Edit section: Radio"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Broadcasting_House,_Northampton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Broadcasting_House%2C_Northampton.jpg/220px-Broadcasting_House%2C_Northampton.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Broadcasting_House%2C_Northampton.jpg/330px-Broadcasting_House%2C_Northampton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Broadcasting_House%2C_Northampton.jpg/440px-Broadcasting_House%2C_Northampton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="542" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption>Radio Northampton's Broadcasting House</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>BBC Radios <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Derby" title="BBC Radio Derby">Derby</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Leicester" title="BBC Radio Leicester">Leicester</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Lincolnshire" title="BBC Radio Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Northampton" title="BBC Radio Northampton">Northampton</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Nottingham" title="BBC Radio Nottingham">Nottingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Manchester" title="BBC Radio Manchester">Manchester</a> (for <a href="/wiki/Glossop" title="Glossop">Glossop</a>, <a href="/wiki/Whaley_Bridge" title="Whaley Bridge">Whaley Bridge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chapel-en-le-Frith" title="Chapel-en-le-Frith">Chapel-en-le-Frith</a>) and <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Sheffield" title="BBC Radio Sheffield">Sheffield</a> (for <a href="/wiki/Chesterfield,_Derbyshire" title="Chesterfield, Derbyshire">Chesterfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bolsover" title="Bolsover">Bolsover</a>, <a href="/wiki/Worksop" title="Worksop">Worksop</a> and <a href="/wiki/Retford" title="Retford">Retford</a>). <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Leicester" title="BBC Radio Leicester">BBC Radio Leicester</a> was the first local radio station in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>.</li> <li>Many commercial, student and community radio stations: <a href="/wiki/Capital_Midlands" title="Capital Midlands">Capital Midlands</a> (formerly Trent FM, RAM FM and Leicester Sound), <a href="/wiki/Hits_Radio_East_Midlands" title="Hits Radio East Midlands">Hits Radio East Midlands</a> (formerly Gem and Heart 106), <a href="/wiki/Heart_East" title="Heart East">Heart East</a> (Northamptonshire) (formerly Northants 96), <a href="/wiki/Demon_FM" title="Demon FM">Demon FM</a> (<a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a>), <a href="/wiki/Peak_FM_(North_Derbyshire)" title="Peak FM (North Derbyshire)">Peak FM</a> (Chesterfield and North Derbyshire), <a href="/wiki/Hits_Radio_Lincolnshire" title="Hits Radio Lincolnshire">Hits Radio Lincolnshire</a> (Lincolnshire and Newark-on-Trent), <a href="/wiki/Takeover_Radio" title="Takeover Radio">Takeover Radio</a> (Leicester & Nottingham), <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fosse_107&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fosse 107 (page does not exist)">Fosse 107</a> (<a href="/wiki/Loughborough" title="Loughborough">Loughborough</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hinckley" title="Hinckley">Hinckley</a>), <a href="/wiki/Harborough_FM" title="Harborough FM">Harborough FM</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Eye_(radio_station)" title="The Eye (radio station)">The Eye</a> (Melton Mowbray), <a href="/wiki/Greatest_Hits_Radio_Stamford_and_Rutland" class="mw-redirect" title="Greatest Hits Radio Stamford and Rutland">Greatest Hits Radio Stamford and Rutland</a> (formerly Rutland Radio), <a href="/w/index.php?title=Boundary_Sound&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Boundary Sound (page does not exist)">Boundary Sound</a> (<a href="/wiki/Newark-on-Trent" title="Newark-on-Trent">Newark-on-Trent</a>), <a href="/wiki/Mansfield_103.2_FM" title="Mansfield 103.2 FM">Mansfield 103.2 FM</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greatest_Hits_Radio_South_Yorkshire" title="Greatest Hits Radio South Yorkshire">Greatest Hits Radio South Yorkshire</a> (formerly Trax FM) (Bassetlaw), <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ashbourne_Radio&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ashbourne Radio (page does not exist)">Ashbourne Radio</a> (Ashbourne on 96.7FM & 101.8FM Wirksworth & Ecclesbourne Valley), <a href="/wiki/Amber_Sound_FM" title="Amber Sound FM">Amber Sound FM</a>, <a href="/wiki/Erewash_Sound" title="Erewash Sound">Erewash Sound</a>, <a href="/wiki/High_Peak_Radio" title="High Peak Radio">High Peak Radio</a> (<a href="/wiki/Chapel-en-le-Frith" title="Chapel-en-le-Frith">Chapel-en-le-Frith</a>), <a href="/wiki/Smooth_East_Midlands" title="Smooth East Midlands">Smooth East Midlands</a> (formerly Connect 97.2 & 106.80, Corby, PCR FM 103.20, Kettering & Wellingborough), <a href="/wiki/Sabras_Radio" title="Sabras Radio">Sabras Radio</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Salaam_Radio&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Salaam Radio (page does not exist)">Salaam Radio</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hindu_Sanskar_Radio" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu Sanskar Radio">Hindu Sanskar Radio</a>, URN (Uni of Nottingham), Fly FM (Nottingham Trent Uni), <a href="/w/index.php?title=Leicester_Community_Radio&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Leicester Community Radio (page does not exist)">Leicester Community Radio</a> Local Radio for over 35's in Leicester 1449AM.</li> <li>National radio on DAB and FM comes from <a href="/wiki/Sutton_Coldfield_transmitting_station" title="Sutton Coldfield transmitting station">Sutton Coldfield</a> in the west,<a href="/wiki/Belmont_transmitting_station" title="Belmont transmitting station">Belmont</a> (the tallest structure in the region) in the northeast, and <a href="/wiki/Holme_Moss" title="Holme Moss">Holme Moss</a> in the northwest.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Newspapers">Newspapers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=58" title="Edit section: Newspapers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are a number of daily newspapers, the largest of which include the <i><a href="/wiki/Derby_Telegraph" title="Derby Telegraph">Derby Telegraph</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Derbyshire_Times" title="Derbyshire Times">Derbyshire Times</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Leicester_Mercury" title="Leicester Mercury">Leicester Mercury</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_Echo" title="Lincolnshire Echo">Lincolnshire Echo</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Northampton_Chronicle_and_Echo" class="mw-redirect" title="Northampton Chronicle and Echo">Northampton Chronicle and Echo</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Nottingham_Evening_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Nottingham Evening Post">Nottingham Evening Post</a></i>. Most of the daily papers are owned by <a href="/wiki/Trinity_Mirror" class="mw-redirect" title="Trinity Mirror">Trinity Mirror</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British_Parachute_School,_Langar_Airfield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_54674.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/British_Parachute_School%2C_Langar_Airfield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_54674.jpg/220px-British_Parachute_School%2C_Langar_Airfield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_54674.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/British_Parachute_School%2C_Langar_Airfield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_54674.jpg/330px-British_Parachute_School%2C_Langar_Airfield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_54674.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/British_Parachute_School%2C_Langar_Airfield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_54674.jpg/440px-British_Parachute_School%2C_Langar_Airfield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_54674.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/British_Parachute_Schools" title="British Parachute Schools">British Parachute Schools</a> at <a href="/wiki/Langar,_Nottinghamshire" title="Langar, Nottinghamshire">Langar</a> </figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Magazines">Magazines</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=59" title="Edit section: Magazines"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are many regional lifestyle publications, the largest and most widely read being <i>Life&Style Magazine</i>, <i>FHP Magazine</i>, <i>Nottinghamshire Life</i> and <i>City Life and County Living</i>. National magazine publishers in the region include <a href="/wiki/Key_Publishing" title="Key Publishing">Key Publishing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mortons_of_Horncastle" title="Mortons of Horncastle">Mortons of Horncastle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bourne_Publishing_Group" title="Bourne Publishing Group">Bourne Publishing Group</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Midlands&action=edit&section=60" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output 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"The urban hierarchy in the later Middle Ages: a study of the East Midlands." <i>Urban history</i> (2001): 331–357.</li> <li>McWhirr, Alan. <i>The Early Military History of the Roman East Midlands</i> (1970) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/RomanPagesfromvolumeXLV-2.pdf">online</a>.</li> <li>Stafford, Pauline. <i>The East Midlands in the Early Middle Ages</i> (Leicester University, 1985).</li> <li>Stobart, Jon. "Regions, Localities, and Industrialisation: Evidence from the East Midlands Circa 1780–1840." <i>Environment and Planning A</i> 33.7 (2001): 1305–1325.</li> <li>Tompkins, Matthew. <i>Peasant society in a midlands manor, Great Horwood 1400-1600</i> (PhD Diss. U of Leicester, 2006) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://leicester.figshare.com/articles/Peasant_society_in_a_midlands_manor_Great_Horwood_1400-1600/10079651/files/18175607.pdf">online</a>.</li> <li>Townsend, Claire. "County versus region? 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