Glapwell
Glapwell is a village and civil parish in the Bolsover District of Derbyshire, England.

Glapwell is a village and civil parish in the Bolsover District of Derbyshire, England. The village is at the top of a steep hill at an elevation of 176m, on the western edge of the Southern Magnesian Limestone, overlooking the valley of the River Doe Lea. It lies between Chesterfield, Mansfield, and Bolsover, and had a population of 1,503 at the 2011 Census.
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Worth seeing in and around Glapwell
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Hardwick Hall
Hardwick Hall is an architecturally significant Elizabethan-era country house in Derbyshire, England. A leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, the Renaissance style home was built between 1590 and 1597 for Bess of Hardwick to a design of the architect Robert Smythson.
2.9 km · Elizabethan country house in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St John the Baptist, Ault Hucknall
St John the Baptist's Church, Ault Hucknall, is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire.
1.5 km · Grade I listed church in Ault Hucknall, Bolsover, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03St Leonard's Church, Scarcliffe
St Leonard's Church, Scarcliffe, is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Scarcliffe, Derbyshire.
3.1 km · church in Scarcliffe, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Glapwell
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 40 km · Manchester (MAN), 69 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 79 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Glapwell71 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £8–10
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Glapwell70 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £8–10
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Glapwell89 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £10–13
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No local-transport research exists yet for Glapwell
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Glapwell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Glapwell
Glapwell is 25 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Scarcliffevillage and civil parish in Bolsover District, Derbyshire, England3 km
- Pleasleyvillage and civil parish in the Bolsover District of Derbyshire, England2.7 km
- Ault Hucknallvillage and civil parish in the Bolsover District of Derbyshire, England1.5 km
- New Houghtonvillage in Derbyshire, England, UK2.1 km
- Doe Leavillage in Derbyshire, England, UK2.2 km
- Heathvillage in Derbyshire, United Kingdom3.7 km