Description: The beautiful engraving looking north from Wilford, on the south side of the River Trent, over towards the Meadows and showing Nottingham Castle in the distance. The city at this time would still have had the appearance of a large market town. The houses were bound within a restricted area due to a ring of fields and meadows around the city, used by the burgesses of freeholders of the City to graze their animals (The Nottingham Enclosure Act of 1845 enclosed these fields and meadows, and compensated them for the loss of open space used for housing development, and allotted space for a series of places of public recreation and public walks). The city, as it is seen here, has not yet developed its Victorian boom in the industrial economy, with its associated increase in population and cramped squalid housing. This scene is a pastoral one with animals grazing in the Meadows. The area on the left would eventually be the location of Wilford Power Station and Clifton Colliery.