A town is referred to as a birthplace of D. H. Lawrence, and many of his novels were inspired by the local area. His previous personal has been converted to the museum dedicated to the author.

These are besides known for a meetings of the Nottinghamshire collier, at the Sun Hostel, in the early nineteenth century. It was there that a guide to build a Midland Counties Railway was made, which late became a portion of the fledgling Midland Railway.