Also rather beautiful (if theres anything on) is the little theatre in Averham just outside of Newark. You're not more than twenty miles from Grantham birthplace of Margaret Thatcher. And Isaac Newton. Theres agreat arts centre in Grantham - always interesting stuff going on.

There two ancestral p;iles to visit quite near there - belvoir Castle - ancestral home of the Duke of Rutland. and Belton House - I think was Lord Burligh who lived there. belvoir is the more intersting of the two.

Nottingham isn't too far distant and - its a big city with many attractions - theatres, a castle, a lace museum, lots of folk clubs.