Hotels Midlands
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Numerous people may want to stay at hotels in the Midlands. Some may want to stay at hotels that have access to impressive reviews.
The Midlands is an area of England which broadly corresponds to the early-mediaeval Kingdom of Mercia. The area lies between Southern England, Northern England, East Anglia and Wales, and its largest city is Birmingham. It was an important location for the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. There is an east Midlands and West Midlands.
The name does not correspond to any current administrative area, and there is therefore no strict definition. However, it is generally considered to include the counties of Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, the West Midlands and Worcestershire.
Some may want to visit the region to see the culture, history, sports and scenery of the region.
The greater part of the Midlands is covered by two administrative regions of England, West Midlands and East Midlands. However, even taken together, these regions do not fully cover the traditional Midlands, because:
Part
of Northern Lincolnshire is now in the Yorkshire and the Humber region;
Peterborough
(a unitary authority) is now included with Cambridgeshire in the East of England
region;
Gloucestershire is now in the South West region;
Oxfordshire is
now in the South East region;
Bedfordshire is now in the East of England region.
The largest Midlands conurbation, which includes the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton, is approximately covered by a metropolitan county (which also includes the city of Coventry), also called the West Midlands. Thus, there are two West Midlands, a Region and a (smaller) County.
Parts of the East Midlands are also densely populated, particularly the triangle formed by the cities of Leicester, Nottingham and Derby, which also includes sizeable towns such as Loughborough and the Long Eaton–Beeston–Stapleford subconurbation.
The South Midlands is an area identified by the government for regional development purposes, consisting of Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire with northern Buckinghamshire (what is now the Milton Keynes unitary authority). Bedfordshire and particularly Buckinghamshire are not usually considered part of the Midlands and are in the administrative regions of the East of England and the South East respectively, a further illustration of the fluidity of the perceived boundaries of the Midlands. Banbury in north Oxfordshire is often considered as the southern extremity of the English Midlands as it is relatively industrialised and many locals harbour an accent which is discernibly non-Southern. The town also has strong links with the Birmingham–Coventry industrial zone to the north.
Notable cities and towns
Alcester,
Alfreton, Ashbourne, Ashby de la Zouch, Atherstone
Banbury, Bedworth, Birmingham,
Boston, Bridgnorth, Bromsgrove, Burton upon Trent, Buxton
Cannock, Chesterfield,
Coalville, Corby, Coventry
Derby, Droitwich, Dudley
Gainsborough, Gloucester,
Grantham, Great Malvern
Halesowen, Hereford, Hinckley
Kenilworth, Kettering,
Kidderminster
Leamington Spa, Leek, Leicester, Lichfield, Lincoln, Loughborough,
Lutterworth
Mansfield, Market Harborough, Matlock
Newark-on-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme,
Northampton, Nottingham, Nuneaton
Oldbury, Oswestry, Oxford
Redditch,
Rugby, Rugeley, Rushden
Shrewsbury, Skegness, Smethwick, Solihull, Stafford,
Stamford, Stoke-on-Trent, Stone, Stourbridge, Stratford-on-Avon, Sutton Coldfield
Tamworth, Telford, Towcester
Uttoxeter
Walsall, Warwick, Wednesbury, Wellingborough,
West Bromwich, Whitchurch, Wigston, Wolverhampton, Worcester
Mercia was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. It was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries in the region now known as the English Midlands. The name is a Latinisation of the Old English Mierce, meaning "border people". Mercia's neighbours included Northumbria, Powys, the kingdoms of southern Wales, Wessex, Sussex, Essex, and East Anglia. The name of Mercia is still in use today by a wide range of organisations, including military units, public, commercial and voluntary bodies. Mercia's exact evolution from the Anglo-Saxon invasions is more obscure than that of Northumbria, Kent, or even Wessex. Archaeological surveys show that Angles settled the lands north of the River Thames by the sixth century. The name Mercia is Old English for "boundary folk" (see marches), and the traditional interpretation was that the kingdom originated along the frontier between the Welsh and the Anglo-Saxon invaders, although P. Hunter Blair has argued an alternative interpretation that they emerged along the frontier between the kingdom of Northumbria and the inhabitants of the Trent river valley.
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