If the list of place names which abutted Gedling sounds like something from Lord of the Rings, there might be something in that. Apparently (I learnt from a neighbour on Saturday night) JRR Tolkein used to spend a lot of time in Gedling in his aunt's farm and, according to the BBC page a lot of his inspiration for the trilogy came from those stays! http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2008/10/29/lord_of_the_rings_tolkien_gedling_feature.shtml
Something interesting I forgot to mention:
If the list of place names which abutted Gedling sounds like something from Lord of the Rings, there might be something in that. Apparently (I learnt from a neighbour on Saturday night) JRR Tolkein used to spend a lot of time in Gedling in his aunt's farm and, according to the BBC page a lot of his inspiration for the trilogy came from those stays! http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2008/10/29/lord_of_the_rings_tolkien_gedling_feature.shtml