More than 17,000 rural homes and businesses across Nottinghamshire will benefit from superfast broadband in a plan to boost internet speeds by 2018.
Areas in Bassetlaw, Newark and Sherwood will see the majority of improvements, with a total of 130 towns and villages benefiting from the latest stage of a £20m upgrade.
The scheme involving BT and Nottinghamshire County Council has already brought high speed internet to over 50,000 local addresses since June 2014.
And the programme is expected to be complete in Spring 2018 – by which time a total of 80,000 homes will have been connected.
It has been targeting rural communities to provide fibre broadband in areas where it has previously been unavailable.
Councillor Diana Meale, chair of Economic Development the council said: “This is one of the largest and most ambitious infrastructure projects ever delivered in the county.”
Fibre broadband allows users faster download and upload speeds as well as faster connections when using multiple devices.
USwitch recently named Coningsby Gardens East in Woodthorpe as one of the top 20 areas for slowest internet speeds in the UK.
The road had a download speed of 1.03 megabytes per second, compared to the national average of 14.7 megabytes.
Moral fibre: Areas set to benefit from the latest upgrades
Ashfield: Annesley, Sutton in Ashfield and Selston
Bassetlaw: Barnby Moor, Beckingham, Beckingham , Blyth, Bole, Bothamsall, Carlton in Lindrick, Cottam, East Markham, Eaton, Elkesley, Gamston, Harworth Bircotes, Haughton, Holbeck, Lound, Marnham, Misson, Misterton, Normanton on Trent , Norton, Rampton, Rhodesia, Scaftworth, Shireoaks, South Leverton, Styrrup with Oldcotes, Sutton, Treswell, Tuxford, Welbeck and West Drayton
Broxtowe: Beeston, Eastwood, Greasley, Nuthall, Strelley, Trowell, Watnall and Bestwood
Gedling: Burton Joyce, Calverton, Lambley, Papplewick, Ravenshead and Stoke Bardolph
Mansfield: Forest Town, Mansfield, Shirebrook and Warsop
Newark and Sherwood: Balderton, Barnby in the Willows, Besthorpe, Bilsthorpe, Bleasby, Blidworth, Caunton, Caythorpe, Clipstone, Collingham, Eakring, Edingley, Edwinstowe, Egmanton, Farnsfield, Girton, Fiskerton cum Morton, Gunthorpe, Halam, Harby, Hockerton, Holme, Kilvington, Kirklington, Kneesall , Laxton and Moorhouse, Lindhurst, Newark, North Clifton, Norwell, North Muskham, Ollerton and Boughton, Ompton, Ossington, Oxton, Rolleston, Rufford, South Clifton, South Muskham, South Scarle, Spalford, Staythorpe, Syerston, Sutton-on-Trent, Thurgarton, Weston and Wigsley
Rushcliffe: Aslockton, Bingham, Car Colston, Colston Bassett, Cotgrave, East Bridgford, East Leake, Elton-on-the-Hill, Flintham, Granby, Hawksworth, Hickling, Keyworth, Kingston on Soar, Kinoulton, Normanton on Soar, Orston, Owthorpe, Radcliffe on Trent, Ruddington, Scarrington, Shelford and Newton, Shelton, Sibthorpe, Stanford on Soar, Sutton Bonington, Thrumpton, Tollerton, Whatton, Whatton-in-the-Vale and Widmerpool
You can check if your area is due for an upgrade on the Better Broadband for Nottingham website.
