GLAPWELL: Bolsover Parish #2 of 16 

Back into Bolsover today and we're looking at one of the smallest parishes in the district. For such a small area you get a lot of bang for your buck here! This is without question a glorious little village atop a hill, the same hill in fact that we saw in the Scarcliffe episode.
Here you will find a nurseries built on the site of an old hall which also gives its name to the football ground of the local village team. Sticking with sports there's also a cricket club here formed thanks to one of the local collieries (incidentally said colliery wasn't even in this parish it was actually over the border in Ault Hucknall - even so that didn't stop some 500 houses being developed in this village to accommodate the workforce)
There's two pubs, one named after a 19th Century champion racehorse and the other which has changed it's name a few times these days known as the Plug and Feathers at the bottom of The Hill. Also at the bottom of the hill you find the entrance to the Stockley Trail which is a 2 mile long old railway line which used to carry passengers between Chesterfield and Mansfield.
We are 155 miles away from London in this place and if you want confirmation of that fact all you have to do is look at the village green whale found a mile marker telling you exactly how many miles it is to our nations capital. Other than that there's a surgery a couple of play areas, and a street that apparently overlooks a church even though they're actually isn't one! There's also no shops, no post office but also no stress here.
This is just a village that is minding its own business along the A617 between Chesterfield and Mansfield. Welcome to GLAPWELL.
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My name is Andy. I am armed with a car, a GoPro and an unhealthy amount of time on my hands.
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Glapwell Nurseries:
www.yell.com/biz/glapwell-tea...
Glapwell Hall:
www.countryimagesmagazine.co....
Bustimes:
bustimes.org/localities/glapwell
Demographics:
www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/e...
Glapwell Parish Council:
www.glapwellparishcouncil.co.u...
Zoopla:
www.zoopla.co.uk/house-prices...
Glapwell Colliery:
www.oldminer.co.uk/glapwell.html
Cricket Club:
glapwellcolliery.play-cricket...
The Stockley Trail:
www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure...
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