Posh Nottingham: Inside the ‘poshest’ neighbourhood in Nottingham which hasn’t changed since Victorian times

Here at Nottingham World we enjoy bringing you a range of different stories to do with the city and its surrounding areas, some more serious than others.

One of our most important roles as a local news outlet is to make sure that the voices of you, our readers, are heard.

Followers of our Facebook page will know that we regularly ask our readers for their opinions on all things Nottingham, from the best local restaurants to the things that irritate you most about the city.

Every so often we like to have a bit of fun by asking light-hearted questions - and most recently asked readers to nominate what, in their opinion, is the ‘poshest’ part of Nottingham.

As you might expect, this question generated huge debate and received nearly 200 responses all told.

We ended up narrowing it down to the most popular seven answers, which you can read here.

However, it’s fair to say that one part of the city was nominated far more than any other.

The area in question is, of course, The Park Estate.

Where is The Park Estate and why is it considered ‘posh’?

Located immediately west of Nottingham Castle, The Park Estate started life as a forested deer park.

Then, in the early 1850s, it was designed by the pre-eminent architect Thomas Chambers Hine for the fifth Duke of Newcastle as a quality residential estate.

Today there are around 450 houses in the estate, alongside roughly 700 flats.

According to Rightmove, house sales in The Park over the past year have been £466,258.

When you consider that the average house price in Nottingham as a whole over the same time period was £258,884, it’s easy to see why The Park is thought of as a lucrative place to live.

Street lamps in the park are powered completely by gas, which goes some way to explaining the area’s feeling of exclusivity.

For more than 150 years The Park Estate has been an address of some distinction and there are no signs of that changing in the near future.