Glapwell

Coordinates: 53°11′20″N 1°16′55″W / 53.189°N 1.282°W / 53.189; -1.282

Glapwell is a village located either side of the main A617 road in north east Derbyshire, between the towns of Chesterfield (7 miles) and Mansfield (5 miles), although the nearest small town centre is Bolsover (3 miles to the north). With 1,467 residents, Glapwell is situated on and atop a very steep hill adjoining with the next village of Bramley Vale at the bottom.

History

This village is listed in the Domesday Book. In 1086, the book notes that Serb holds this for William Peverel.

Glapwell colliery closed in the 1970s and the site is owned by a private company manufacturing industrial fencing and access solutions, Eve Trakway. There is no overall dominant industry in the area, with most of the jobs being out of the village.

Amenities

The village has a local shop\post office and two pub/restaurants: The Young Vanish,(an unusual name derived from that of a 19th-century champion race horse), and the Plug and Feathers (previously a Ma Hubbards venue) formerly and traditionally the Glapwell Hotel, known by many local as "The New Un"). The Hotel was one of the first places that train travellers would see when leaving the nearby LMS train station, and was in fact the local Station Hotel. The station itself closed in the 1930s.