Holbeck is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The trad ...

, England. It is located 6 miles south-west of

Worksop Worksop ( ) is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located east-south-east of Sheffield, close to Nottinghamshire's borders with South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, on the River Ryton and not far from th ...

. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 449, reducing to 195 (including Holbeck Woodhouse and Welbeck) at the 2011 Census. It is an estate village built for the

Dukes of Portland Earl of Portland is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of England, firstly in 1633 and secondly in 1689. What proved to be a long co-held title, Duke of Portland, was created in 1716 and became extinct in 1990 upon the death of t ...

Welbeck Abbey Welbeck Abbey in the Dukeries in North Nottinghamshire was the site of a monastery belonging to the Premonstratensian order in England and after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, a country house residence of the Dukes of Portland. It is o ...

St Winifred's Church

The parish church of St Winifred was built between 1913 and 1916, for the benefit of the Dukes of Portland, and as a burial place for the dukes and their families. It also contains the tombstone of Lady Ottoline Morrel.Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1979. ''The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire''. page 145. Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin.

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