Hockley and the Lace Market
Red-brick warehouses full of cocktail bars and late spots, close to the centre and easy to wander.
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
Casual Dating Nottingham: Notts Nights, Easy Flirting
Robin Hood stole from the rich. You'll steal a kiss in the Lace Market.
Big nights out, and a young crowd to share them
Nottingham is known for its nights out, from the cocktail bars of Hockley to clubs packed with students from two universities, and a no-strings date fits right in. Nearly three in ten Casual.uk members in Nottinghamshire are women, and the crowd is young: more than four in ten are under 35, with most of the rest between 35 and 54. Just over half the county's members, women included, are on Naughty, our raunchier section, so it's worth a profile there too.
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City first, then the old pit towns
More than six in ten Nottinghamshire profiles say Nottingham. Further out, Mansfield and Worksop, up in the old coalfield, both appear, and so does Long Eaton on the Derbyshire border. With the city doing most of the work, a central first meet is the obvious choice, and Nottinghamshire casual dating mostly means a night in town.
The NET tram helps tie it together. Lines run from the station and the Old Market Square to Hucknall, Phoenix Park, Clifton, and through Beeston to Toton Lane, so a lot of the county is a tram ride from the centre.
Who you could meet in Notts
Women29%
Members aged 35 to 5447%
Members aged 55 or over9%
Members under 3544%
Shares of Casual.uk members in Nottinghamshire, across every section, from member records, October 2026.
Twenty-five to 44 is the core of it, with those two decades together making up more than six in ten of the county's members, split evenly between them. Fewer than one in ten are over 55.
Somewhere to start
Caves, castles and cosy corners
Nottingham is built on sandstone riddled with caves, and some of its oldest pubs are carved into the rock.
Below the castle
Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, set into the castle rock, is a famous old pub with nooks that suit a quiet first drink.
The Arboretum
The city's oldest public park, hilly and leafy, near the Forest Recreation Ground.
Victoria Embankment
A riverside walk along the Trent, across the water from West Bridgford, quiet on a weekday evening.
Deer at Wollaton, a drink in Beeston
A Nottingham classic for a first daytime meet: walk the deer park around Wollaton Hall, then head down to Beeston's high street for a pint. It's relaxed, it's outdoors, and it gets you away from the city centre crowd. If the weather turns, Sherwood's Mansfield Road has pubs and cafés to duck into.
Football rivalry runs deep here, with Forest on one bank of the Trent and Notts County on the other, so it makes a good opener if you're both fans and is best avoided if you're not. Match days fill the pubs around the City Ground and Meadow Lane, so plan a first meet elsewhere on those afternoons. For a coffee instead of a pint, Hockley's independent cafés and the streets around Sneinton Market are calmer bets, and it's an easy walk between the two.
Notts, sorted
How many women use Casual.uk in Nottingham?
Nearly three in ten of our Nottinghamshire members are women, and just over half of them are on the Naughty section.
Can I meet people from Mansfield or Worksop?
Yes. Both appear in the county's member data, and your matches weigh distance, so the nearest profiles come up whichever end of Notts you're in.
East Midlands and beyond
Derby is twenty minutes on the train. See every location, or find out how casual dating near me works.