Skip to content
Mixroutes
Bolsover
Town in Derbyshire, England

Bolsover

Bolsover is a market town and the administrative centre of the Bolsover district, in Derbyshire, England.

Plan a trip to Bolsover→From Nottingham, Leicestershire

It lies 18 miles (29 km) from Sheffield, 26 miles (42 km) from Nottingham and 27 miles (43 km) from Derby. Old Bolsover is the civil parish, including the town, the New Bolsover model village, Hillstown, Carr Vale, Shuttlewood, Stanfree, Oxcroft and Whaley. Its population at the 2011 UK Census was 11,673.

Get in

Getting to Bolsover

Bolsover town is 18 miles (29 km) from Sheffield, 26 miles (42 km) from Nottingham and 27 miles (43 km) from Derby.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Bolsover Castle

    A Stuart-era mansion that was "the fantasy hilltop pleasure palace of a horse-mad Cavalier playboy".

  2. 02
    Creswell Crags

    Limestone gouge with caves that were occupied during the last ice age.

  3. 03
    Creswell Model Village

    An example of early 20th-century design from the model village movement.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.