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Glapwell

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

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The place

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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What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Hardwick 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
  2. 02
    Church 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
  3. 03
    St 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 → Glapwell
    71 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £8–10
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Glapwell
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £8–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Glapwell
    89 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    278 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    321 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    364 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    399 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    417 km

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Around it

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