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An interesting factoid: The Boole Window in the church celebrates the life of George Boole.
Without him, your mobile phone or laptop would be a useless piece of technojunk. The
mathematical logic of Boolean algebra is at the heart of every piece of digital equipment today.

More on Lincoln Cathedral from Wikipedia . . .

Lincoln Castle Built almost 1000 years ago by William the Conqueror. After his victory at the
Battle of Hastings in 1066, he faced continuing resistance and ordered the construction of a castle
at Lincoln as part of his strategy to control the rebellious north of the kingdom. The castle’s
commanding position not only afforded far reaching views, it also served as a reminder to the local
population that the Normans were in charge.

The Jew’s House One of the oldest and most important domestic dwellings in England. The house
has traditionally been associated with the thriving Jewish community in Medieval Lincoln, thought
to have last belonged to Belaset, daughter of Solomon of Wallingford, before the expulsion of the
Jews from England in 1290. The building has remained continuously occupied to the present day,
and currently houses the Jew’s House restaurant.

SHERWOOD FOREST

Home of the legendary hero Robin Hood. Once part of a royal hunting forest, this 450 acre country
park is now part of the Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve and incorporates some truly
ancient areas of native woodland where slender birch trees grow alongside more than one
thousand veteran oaks, most of which are over 500 years old.

The largest and most famous of these is the Major Oak – linked throughout the world to
Sherwood’s legendary hero Robin Hood.

The name ‘Sherwood’ was first recorded in 958AD when it was called Sciryuda, meaning ‘the
woodland belonging to the shire’. It became a Royal hunting forest after the Norman invasion of
1066, and was popular with many Norman kings, particularly King John and Edward I. The ruins of
King John’s hunting lodge can still be seen near the Nottinghamshire village of Kings Clipstone.

‘Forest’ was a legal term, and meant an area subject to special Royal laws designed to protect the
valuable resources of timber and game.

The royal prerogative was extinguished by King Henry III who took the throne after the death of King John
when he put his seal to the Charter of the Forest in 1217.

This charter complemented Magna Carta's clauses with particular reference to the forests of the land, re-
establishing the rights of the people using them.

Only two copies of the original 1217 Charter of the Forest survive today, one of which can be seen in
Lincoln Castle alongside its 1215 Magna Carta counterpart.

In the 1200s, popularly thought to be the time of Robin Hood, Sherwood covered about 100,000
acres, which was a fifth of the entire county of Nottinghamshire. The main London to York road,
the Great North Way, ran straight through Sherwood, and travellers were often at the mercy of
robbers living outside of the law. Hence the name ‘outlaw’

OXFORD

The Dreaming Spires of Oxford are famous the world over for the city’s university and place in
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history. For over 800 years, it has been a home to royalty and scholars, and since the 9 century
an established town, although people are known to have lived in the area for thousands of years.