Bolsover

The honor of Peverel of Nottingham was a grouping of about 50 manors held from shortly after the Norman Conquest by William Peverel (d.

In the 17th and 18th centuries Bolsover was well known locally as a centre for the manufacture of clay tobacco pipes, and for a short time in the m

The ‘Old Peverel Road’, said to have been built by the first William Peverel (who died in 1114) to link Bolsover with his other manor at South Wing

A factory making hosiery, underwear and other types of garment was established at Bolsover shortly after the Second World War. Passing from local o

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The Bolsover Colliery Company was established in 1890 and initially sank a colliery to the Deep Hard coal at Bolsover.

The most distinctive feature of farming in modern Bolsover was the creation of an estate of smallholdings intended to give unemployed men and their

The history of education in Bolsover falls into several well-defined phases.

Since the closure of Bolsover colliery in 1993 great efforts have been made by central and local government, and other bodies to regenerate the com