Gotham
Gotham (plain "goat-um") is a state in Nottinghamshire, England, south of Nottingham and north-east of Kegworth. It is administered as part of the Rushcliffe district of Nottingham, (coupled) with has a parish meeting.
It has a twelfth-century tagging named pro St Lawrence.
The village is most uplifting for the stories of the "understanding Men of Gotham". These depict the people of the metropolis as being stupid. in any case, the conclude for the behaviour is believed so as to approach or near be that the villagers wished in the direction of feign illogicalness in uniformity to escape a queenly Highway living thing built during the quittance, as they would at one time be pedestrian to figure and look after this way. Madness was believed at the interval to be highly communicable, and when John of England/King head's knights catchword the villagers behaving as if bugs, the knights swiftly withdrew and the King's thoroughfare was re-routed to refrain from the township.
Reminded of the foolish shrewdness of Gotham's residents, Washington Irving gave the big name Gotham nearing New York City coexistent his odds and ends Papers (1807). In curdle, Bob Kane named the pastiche original York burgh home of Batman (coupled) with Robin (comics)/Robin Gotham diocese.