Nottingham Attractions
Medieval Tannery © Mutt
City of Caves
A system of man-made caves carved into the sandstone beneath the city of Nottingham has been developed into a modern award-winning attraction. Anglo-Saxons, whose lifestyle is depicted with dramatic presentations for visitors who come to explore Nottingham's 'underworld', originally inhabited the caves. Over the centuries the caves have been put to various uses by the locals, in times of war and peace, and were saved by local inhabitants in recent times when developers almost built a modern shopping centre over them. Now guided tours take visitors through the caves and through the ages, from the mystical 'Enchanted Well', through a working medieval tannery, the Victorian slums of 'Drury Hill' and a World War II bomb shelter.
Address: Entrance on the upper level of the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre;
Website: www.cityofcaves.com;
Telephone: (0)115 952 0555;
Opening time: Monday to Friday 11.30am to 4.30pm, Saturday and Sunday 10.30am to 4.30pm;
Admission: £5.50 (adults) £4.25 (children)
