Glapwell is a village and civil parish on 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 ...

in the

Bolsover District Bolsover District is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. It is named after the town of Bolsover, which is near the geographic centre of the district, but the council is based in Clowne. At the 2011 Census, the district had a pop ...

of north east

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 ...

, between the towns of

Chesterfield Chesterfield may refer to: Places Canada * Rural Municipality of Chesterfield No. 261, Saskatchewan * Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut United Kingdom * Chesterfield, Derbyshire, a market town in England ** Chesterfield (UK Parliament constitue ...

(7 miles) and

Mansfield Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market tow ...

(5 miles) and

Bolsover Bolsover is a market town and the administrative centre of the Bolsover (borough), Bolsover District, Derbyshire, England. It is from London, from Sheffield, from Nottingham and from Derby, Derbyshire, Derby. It is the main town in the Bols ...

(3 miles to the north). With 1,467 residents, increasing to 1,503 at the 2011 Census, Glapwell is situated atop a steep hill, adjoining the village of

Bramley Vale Bramley Vale is a village in Derbyshire, England, south of Bolsover. It is in the civil parish of Ault Hucknall. History Bramley Vale is a former colliery village and has a lengthy mining heritage, from the opening of the Glapwell colliery in 18 ...

, which lies at the bottom of the hill.

History

This village is listed in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

. In 1086, the book notes that Serb holds this from

William Peverel William Peverel († 28. January 1114), Latinised to Gulielmus Piperellus), was a Norman knight granted lands in England following the Norman Conquest. Origins Little is known of the origin of the William Peverel the Elder. Of his immediate f ...

"In Clapwell, Liefric had one
carucate The carucate or carrucate ( lat-med, carrūcāta or ) was a medieval unit of land area approximating the land a plough team of eight oxen could till in a single annual season. It was known by different regional names and fell under different forms ...
of land to the
geld Geld may refer to: * Gelding, equine castration * Danegeld Danegeld (; "Danish tax", literally "Dane yield" or tribute) was a tax raised to pay tribute or protection money to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged. It was call ...
. There is land for as two ploughs. There eight villans have 6 ploughs... Serb now holds it.''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. p.749"

Glapwell

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 ...

closed in the 1970s and the site is owned by a private company manufacturing industrial fencing. There is no overall dominant industry in the area, with most of the jobs being out of the village.

Amenities

The village has a local shop/post office and one pub/restaurant, the Young Vanish (the name derived from that of a 19th-century champion racehorse). The Plug and Feathers (formerly Ma Hubbards and the Glapwell Hotel, known by many locals as "The New Un"), near the former station, is now closed. The social club, The Rowthorne, closed in December 2011 and the site has been redeveloped for housing. Another longstanding landmark that also disappeared in 2011 was Staleys, the local garage. Glapwell Garden Centre stands on the site of the former Glapwell Hall, the former residence of the Hallowes and now extinct Jackson families. Nearby is

Hardwick Hall Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire is an architecturally significant country house from the Elizabethan era, a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Built between 1590 and 1597 for Bess of Hardwick, it was designed by the architect ...

, an

Elizabethan The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history. The symbol of Britannia (a female personifi ...

mansion in a commanding position high on the same hill as Glapwell, operated by the

National Trust The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a charity and membership organisation for heritage conservation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland, there is a separate and ...

. Access to the grounds and Hall was possible via Rowthorne Lane in Glapwell but this was stopped-up in the early 1990s to reduce traffic in the residential area. Access is now only from the bottom of the hill across 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 lat ...

near the village of

Heath A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler ...

, via the Mill Lane entrance and old coaching road approach to the mansion from

Stainsby Mill Stainsby Mill is a 19th-century flour watermill in Doe Lea, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. The mill, which has been restored to full working order, is a Grade II listed building and is under the ownership of the National Trust. The mill is ...

, a working watermill restored by the National Trust. The local football team

Glapwell F.C. Glapwell Football Club are a football club based in Glapwell in Derbyshire, England. They are currently members of the and play at Hall Corner. History After originally playing as the Young Vanish FC in the mid-to-late 1980s, the club played ...

play their home games at Hall Corner in the north of the village. The cricket team, Glapwell Colliery Cricket Club, play their home games at Park Avenue.

References

{{authority control Bolsover District Villages in Derbyshire

History

Amenities

See also

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