Nottinghamshire Village
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This week the Pepperpot Magazine visited Nottinghamshire Village, Linden, Region Ten (Upper Demerara-Berbice), a rustic, picturesque village with lots of trees and a long red loam road leading throughout the small community.

This village is bordered by Watooka Riverside and Old England (Sibernia) and it was once a very thriving place in the bauxite days when the railway and train ran through the community and the bauxite company had a poultry farm and other facilities in this village.

During the 1970s, this village was developed when people from all over decided to settle there and constructed houses after clearing parts of the land overgrown by trees and vegetation.

Now the village is home to farmers, a few skilled professionals and employees attached to both the private and public sectors and it is a quiet, peaceful place houses are scattered.

Nottinghamshire has about 50 houses and the population is about 250, this community has a lot of children and even though there is a playfield there is nothing else for the children to do with schools closed due to the pandemic.

Internet access is an added expense most parents cannot afford and online learning is a luxury but some utilise the worksheets provided by the Ministry of Education.

Nottinghamshire Village is managed by a Community Development Council (CDC) and has a Chairman, Derick Narine, who was not available.

The village has electricity, potable water supply, landline services in some sections, no internet and the road is in a bad state with very large potholes.

The villagers would access services from the Watooka Day Nursery and Primary schools, the Linden Hospital Complex and others in McKenzie including the market and supermarkets.

Nottinghamshire has a church which sits on a piece of land as you enter the village, beside a small road leading into the community which has a bus shed.

There is also a weathered signboard with the name of the village at the entrance.

The people of this community are simple, really welcoming folk who use their yard space to grow food and rear chickens, rear cattle and do other things that bring in an income.

There is a shop in the village that sells groceries and beverages and it has a few wooden tables and chairs for customers and one can enjoy the scenic sandhills that is in plain view, a short distance away.

The village has a sawmill, and some locals are employed there, but most people have to leave the village for work.

The locals describe life as difficult since jobs are scarce and they have to become small scale farmers to earn.

They have suffered a lot recently due to heavy rainfall, which caused flooding and destroyed their crops.

Nottinghamshire is a green village, and it is a place where doors are left unlocked, and valuables are left unattended, and nothing would go missing since the people are familiar with each other and they co-exist in their own space.

The village needs development and at least an ICT hub for the many children that reside there and a facility such as, a Resource Centre for the youths and a pavilion where locals and sit to watch games being played on the existing ball field that is unfenced and without infrastructure.

Nottinghamshire is a farming community, and people from across the country have settled there. They said it is a place when you visit, you never leave and it may be true to some, who left populated areas and relocated there.

The community has no facilities and the closet town is McKenzie where the banks and the central business hub is located.

The locals hardly ever visit the city and said they are contented and at peace in the village but are hopeful for some more community development and jobs.

Residents would sell their produce at the McKenzie Market or by the Linden Hospital Complex where there are a few stalls, selling foods and other things.

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