WALKING TOUR

Date: Friday 2 December

Time: 18:00 – 22:00

Start: Sir John Borlase Warren

Finish: God knows

Duration: 4 hours

Distance: 5 km

Difficulty: easy

Highlights: pubs, caves, beers.

Zig Zag Tours invite you to our end of year Xmas special – a classic Nottingham tour of pubs and caves. This was partly inspired by the recent draft publication of an excellent new technical guidance note, written to raise awareness of the importance of our historic cave network underneath the city. We will be making good use of this on our early Xmas pub crawl, to consider some of the earlier medieval uses of the caves – as domestic cellars, or for industrial and commercial purposes; in fact they were some of Nottingham's earliest fridges and larders. They were also used for accommodation, or as sources of water, perhaps even ritualistic ceremony. Some were even articulated with carefully detailed archways and columns with foliated capitals; high status caves under imposing townhouses. Our objective is to reveal as much of their significance before the beers kick in and we forget what we came for. Join us to round off 2022 in Zig Zag style.