Bolsover District is a local government district 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 ...

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. It is named after the town of Bolsover, which is near the geographic centre of the district, but the council is based in

Clowne Clowne is a village and civil parish in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, England. The population at the 2001 Census was 7,447 increasing to 7,590 (and including Harlesthorpe) at the 2011 Census. It forms part of the Bolsover constituency. ...

. At the 2011 Census, the district had a population of 75,866. The district is along with

North East Derbyshire North East Derbyshire is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. It borders the districts of Chesterfield, Bolsover, Amber Valley and Derbyshire Dales in Derbyshire, and Sheffield and Rotherham in South Yorkshire. The popula ...

, Borough of Chesterfield and Bassetlaw District is a non-constituent member of the Sheffield City Region.

Town and parish councils

There are fourteen town and parish councils within the district. In addition to the town councils of Old Bolsover and

Shirebrook Shirebrook is a town in the Bolsover district in Derbyshire, England. Close to the boundaries with the districts of Mansfield and Bassetlaw of Nottinghamshire,OS Explorer Map 270: Sherwood Forest: (1:25 000): it had a population of 13,300 i ...

, there are the parish councils of: * Ault Hucknall * Barlborough * Blackwell *

* Elmton-with-Creswell *

Glapwell Glapwell is a village and civil parish on the A roads in Zone 6 of the Great Britain numbering scheme#Triple-digit roads, A617 road in the Bolsover District of north east Derbyshire, between the towns of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Chesterfield (7 m ...

Hodthorpe and Belph Hodthorpe and Belph is a civil parish within the Bolsover District, Bolsover district, of the county of Derbyshire, England. The parish includes the village of Hodthorpe and the Hamlet (place), hamlet of Belph. In 2011 the parish had a population ...

Pinxton Pinxton is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire on the eastern boundary of Nottinghamshire, England, just south of the Pinxton Interchange at Junction 28 of the M1 motorway where the A38 road meets the M1. Pinxton is part of the Bolsov ...

* Pleasley *

Scarcliffe Scarcliffe is a village and civil parish in the Bolsover (district), Bolsover district of Derbyshire, England. It is sometimes called Scarcliffe with Palterton. The population of the parish (including the hamlets of Palterton, Rylah, Stockley, a ...

South Normanton South Normanton is a village and civil parish in the Bolsover District of Derbyshire, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 9,445. An ex-mining village, it is two miles east of Alfreton. The historic industries of the village were ag ...

Tibshelf Tibshelf is a village and civil parish in the Bolsover District in Derbyshire, England. Located between the towns of Clay Cross, Shirebrook, Mansfield and Chesterfield. It had a population at the 2001 UK census of 3,548, increasing to 3,787 at t ...

* Whitwell Other settlements include Broadmeadows, Hilcote, Langwith, Old Blackwell, Newton, Palterton,

and Westhouses. The current district boundaries date from 1 April 1974, when the

urban district Urban district may refer to: * District * Urban area * Quarter (urban subdivision) * Neighbourhood Specific subdivisions in some countries: * Urban districts of Denmark * Urban districts of Germany * Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland) (his ...

of Bolsover was merged with

Blackwell Rural District Blackwell was a rural district in Derbyshire, England from 1894 to 1974. It was created under the Local Government Act 1894 based on that part of the Mansfield rural sanitary district which was in Derbyshire (the Nottinghamshire part forming Sk ...

and

Clowne Rural District Clowne was a rural district in Derbyshire, England from 1894 to 1974. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as that part of the Worksop rural sanitary district which was in Derbyshire (the rest becoming either Worksop Rural District o ...

Council

Bolsover District Council is elected every four years, with currently 37

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s being elected at each election. The Labour Party had a majority on the council from the first election to the council in 1973 until 2019 and after the 2019 election the council was composed of the following councillors: As of November 2020, the Conservatives have 3 councillors after a defection from the singular Lib Dem councillor, Natalie Hoy. The Bolsover District and the nearby

, Borough of Chesterfield and Bassetlaw District alongside the High Peak Borough and

Derbyshire Dales Derbyshire Dales ( ) is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 71,116. Much of it is in the Peak District, although most of its population lies along the River Derwent. The borough borders ...

district are non-constituent members of the wider Sheffield City Region.

References

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