Bramley Vale is a village in
Derbyshire
Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...
, England, south of
Bolsover
Bolsover is a market town and the administrative centre of the Bolsover District, Derbyshire, England. It is from London, from Sheffield, from Nottingham and from Derby. It is the main town in the Bolsover district.
The civil parish for th ...
. It is in the civil parish of
Ault Hucknall
Ault Hucknall (Old English: ''Hucca's nook of land'') is a village and civil parish in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,053.
Local residents describe the settlement as the ...
.
History
Bramley Vale is a former
colliery
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...
village and has a lengthy mining heritage, from the opening of the
Glapwell colliery in 1882 till it closed in 1974 with all the men being transferred to other local collieries.
[http://www.oldminer.co.uk/New/Glapwell.htm , Glapwell Collieries - Glapwell Shaft No 2]
Geography
The village is four miles south of Bolsover, close to junction 29 of the
M1 motorway
The M1 motorway connects London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) near Aberford, to connect to Newcastle. It was the first inter-urban motorway to be completed in the UK; the first motorway in the country was the Preston By-pass, which ...
, and has good transport links to
Chesterfield,
Mansfield, and
Nottingham
Nottingham ( , locally ) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robi ...
provided by the
TM Travel
TM Travel is a bus operator based in Halfway, Sheffield, operating bus services in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Founded in 1995 as a family-owned operation with one bus, by March 2008 it had expanded to become the largest independent operator ...
service number 73 and Pronto bus.
[http://www.prontobus.co.uk, Pronto Bus Website.] The
A617 road
The A617 road runs through the northern East Midlands, England, between Newark-on-Trent and Chesterfield.
Route
The route runs south-east to north-west through the northern East Midlands, largely through former coal-mining areas. It runs la ...
runs through the village.
Amenities
It has one local shop which has a free ATM.
Companies
Companies based in Bramley Vale include:-
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Eve Trakway[http://www.evetrakway.co.uk , Eve Trakway website] who specialise in temporary access systems and related services from trackway systems, barriers, fencing and traffic management to security with headquarters in Bramley Vale; the company was a former division of
J. L. Eve Construction.
# Coverworld,
[http://www.coverworld.co.uk/, Coverworld UK Ltd.] producers and suppliers of single and twin skin coated steel cladding systems.
References
External links
Pronto Bus Timetables
Villages in Derbyshire
Bolsover District
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