Gotham is a fictional city in the DC Universe but its namesake is not.
While Batmans Gotham is a teeming metropolis, the English village is a sleepy settlement in therural heartof Nottinghamshire.
Yet both share a connection rooted to a legend that started eight hundred years ago.
The village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire.
This sign is frequently stolen.
In those times, wherever the royal carriage rode the path would became apublic highwayand thus the Kings land.
This meant that certain landowners of Gotham were going to inevitably lose their land, and it upset them.
The trick worked, and the knights made a hasty withdrawal fearing they would catch the villagers madness.
The King never set foot on the village.
For years, the chairman of Gotham Parish Council tried to have her village twinned with New York City.
Its a wind vane with a decorative ribbon encircling the pole telling the story of King Johns visit.
A tiny figure of a Batman can be seen climbing on the side.
Photo credit: Birmingham Live
