CHAPTER XIV.
NOTTINGHAM AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS--NEWSTEAD ABBEY--MANSFIELD--TALK IN A BLACKSMITH'S SHOP--CHESTERFIELD, CHATSWORTH AND HADDON HALL-- ARISTOCRATIC CIVILISATION, PRESENT AND PAST.
From the Belvoir Vale I continued my walk to Nottingham the following day; crossing a grand old bridge over the Trent.

Take it all in all, this may be called perhaps the most English town in England; stirring, plucky and radical; full of industrial intellect and vigor.

Its chief businesses involve and exercise thought; and thought educed into one direction and activity, runs naturally into others.

The whole population, under these influences, has become _peopled_ to a remarkable status and strength of opinion, sentiment and action.

They prefix that large and generous quality to their best doings and institutions, and have their Peoples' College, Peoples' Park, etc.