Stanfree
Stanfree is a community/village in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, consisting of a couple of rows of terraced cottages, lying halfway between Shuttlewood and Clowne.
Stanfree is a community/village in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, consisting of a couple of rows of terraced cottages, lying halfway between Shuttlewood and Clowne. It is mentioned in Bagshaw's directory of 1846 and states "a hamlet about 2 and a quarter miles north from Bolsover market place". It is thought by some to draw its name from the fact that, though in a stoney
neighbourhood, it is free from surface stone, or it may have a Roman or British origin. Iron seems to have been smelted here in primitive ages, and coal was worked some 500 years ago. Remains of the workings of both can be found. The four roads meeting here are said by tradition to have once been the main roads of England and Stanfree to have been a special meeting place. The local colliery that was a drift mine was closed in 1974. Only the Oxcroft Miners' Welfare, that was destroyed by fire in the late 1980s and rebuilt on the site of the cricket pavilion, is the lasting reminder that a colliery once stood there. The Appletree Inn on the corner of Appletree Road and Clowne Road closed in 2008.
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Worth seeing in and around Stanfree
2 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.
- 01Bolsover Castle
Bolsover Castle is in the town of Bolsover, in the north-east of the English county of Derbyshire. Built in the early 17th century, the present castle lies on the earthworks and ruins of the 12th-century medieval castle; the first structure of the present castle was built between 1612 and 1617 by Sir Charles Cavendish.
3.9 km · castle in England · Wikipedia - 02Church of St John the Baptist
St. John the Baptist's Church, Clowne, is a Grade II* listed Church of England parish church situated in Clowne, a village and civil parish in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, England.
2.3 km · church in Bolsover, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Stanfree
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 48 km · Manchester (MAN), 67 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 71 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Stanfree36 km · quickest by road, 58 min · £4–5
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Stanfree68 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £9–11
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Stanfree62 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £7–9
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No local-transport research exists yet for Stanfree
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 Stanfree. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Stanfree
Stanfree is 18 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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