Gotham (Nottinghamshire)
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 52 ′ N , 1 ° 12 ′ W | ||
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| Country | United Kingdom | ||
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| county | Nottinghamshire | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-NTT | ||
| Residents | 1800 (2020) | ||
 “Welcome to Gotham” moves many tourists to take a photo.
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Gotham is a place in Nottinghamshire in England about seven kilometers south of Nottingham .
history
St. Lawrence Church dates from the 12th century. The name is derived from the Old English word for " goat home " ( New English goat home ).
The land east of the village was originally a floodplain. Agriculture, basketry and later weaving were the main occupations. The land is now being drained into the nearby Fairham Brook , a tributary of the River Trent , to allow potatoes and sugar beets to thrive on the alluvial soil . The land is worked by seven farmers in the village. (As of 2020) The surrounding hills have been used for gypsum mining since the early 20th century . At their peak, the three mine shafts produced around 160,000 tons of building material and gave the local population a regular livelihood. The last mine closed in 1994 when the gypsum deposits were depleted.
The Gotham Memorial Hall , used for community events such as theater, shows and private parties, was built in 1921.
Local legend
The place is the English equivalent of Schilda in the stories of the " Wise Men of Gotham " . It is said to be mentioned as Gotyam in a 13th century manuscript . The residents of Gotham should u. a. built a fence around a cuckoo to lock it in and thus deceive royal scouts of their sanity.
The settlement is also known for a nursery rhyme:
Three wise men of Gotham
They went to sea in a bowl
And if the bowl had been stronger
My song would have been longer.
Pop Culture
Washington Irving transferred the name Gotham from the narrative to New York City in his satirical magazine Salmagundi in 1807 . These are no longer in use for New York nickname used Bill Finger in 1941 for his Batman - Comics as Gotham City .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Patrick Hanks, Flavia Hodges, AD Mills, Adrian Room: The Oxford names companion . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-19-860561-7 , pp. 1048 .
- ↑ a b website of the village (Parish History)
- ^ Website of the Gotham City Hall
- ^ Thomas Blount: Tenures of Land (revised by W. Carew Hazlitt, p. 133. London, 1874). The Wise Fools of Gotham
- ^ Tenures of land & customs of manors, by Thomas Blount (edition from 1874) in the Google book search
- ^ Iona and Peter Opie: The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edition 1997, p. 193.
- ^ "The real Gotham: The village behind the Batman stories" . BBC News.
- ↑ Explanation of the city name in the Batman universe. Video from ARTE (Youtube channel), approx. 5 minutes, German