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Eastwood in Nottinghamshire is inextricably linked with the writer D H Lawrence, but as you will find out on this treasure hunt, there is more to the town. It is a great backdrop for a corporate day out and can easily be combined with other events ...

David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in Victoria Street. His home there is now a museum dedicated to his memory. His books were often based on this part of the East Midlands. Eastwood was a major mining town of the Notts coalfield, no collieries now remain.

The Nottingham area may well have been settled during earlier times but it was in Anglo Saxon times that the nucleus of the present city was established. The Normans built a wooden castle, subsequently superseded a couple of hundred years later by a stone-built version.

Over the next 400 years, Nottingham was granted Royal Charters to have a weekly market, annual fair, a Mayor and a Sheriff. The main industry was wool treatment but there is plenty of evidence from street names that many other trades were practised. Later,in the 19th century, Nottingham became famed for its lacemaking industry with its famed lace market and the production of Raleigh bicycles.

The name Sherwood was first applied to the forested area during the 10th century and it became a Royal Hunting Forest after the Norman invasion. The time of the Robin Hood legend is reputedly the 1200s, if that is so, then it is more likely that Robin, Maid Marion, Little John, Will Scarlett and Friar Tuck were battling the Mayor of Nottingham as there was no Sheriff of Nottingham until the mid 15th century. By the 18th century, a lot of Sherwood forest had been acquired by minor noblemen who created the impressive country manors like Thoresby, Newstead Woollaton. In fact, there were so many titled landowners here that it became known as the Dukeries. Industry has also impacted on Sherwood forest, farming and coal mining has created the open spaces and settlements you are familiar with today, Edwinstowe, Ollerton, Rainworth, Mansfield ... This creates an interesting and varied environment for a corporate entertainment or team building treasure hunt, with many villages, towns and rural locations to visit.

Eastwood is only a few miles from Nottingham on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border so our Eastwood treasure hunt would be an ideal way to revitalise delegates at your Nottingham or Derby conferences. Alternatively, why not consider our Nottingham or Sherwood Forest treasure hunt? Taking place in the city of Nottingham or the Sherwood forest area, our on foot or car hunts are suited to corporate entertainment, team building or Stag and Hen events. Click here to visit the Nottingham treasure hunt page.

Your Eastwood, Nottingham or Sherwood Treasure Hunt ...

... is perfect as a corporate event, conference break or team building day. It can be provided in conjunction with other activities at the nearby Off Limits site - off road driving, Archery, It's a Knockout ... On its own, the treasure hunt gets your team out from either Derby or Nottingham and provides a hugely enjoyable event. It takes place either on foot in Nottingham itself or by car, outside of the city, where you will explore the local villages in order to find the answers and complete the tasks. Both the car and on foot treasure hunt will require careful planning by the team before you set off, in order to collect sufficient answers and to avoid heavy time penalties. There are always far more clues than your team could possibly answer in the time available. And we lend you digital cameras for the event so at the end of the day, we can put all of the pictures on disc to give you a lasting record of the event.

The treasure hunt is great too for private individuals and charity organisations. It is also rapidly taking over from the 'weekend in Prague' becoming the new generation of stag and hen event, the perfect daytime activity for a weekend 'do'. They are fun, sociable and involve everyone - email your stag or hen enquiry from here.

We do not subcontract out our treasure hunts or scavenger hunts - we produce and deliver them ourselves ensuring you of a top quality event. We are contracted by top corporate entertainment companies to write and deliver their treasure hunts.

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