Glapwell is located in north east Derbyshire

Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...

 between the nearby towns of Chesterfield

Chesterfield

Chesterfield is a market town and a borough of Derbyshire, England. It lies north of Derby, on a confluence of the rivers Rother and Hipper. Its population is 70,260 , making it Derbyshire's largest town...

  (7 miles) and Mansfield

Mansfield

Mansfield is a town in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the main town in the Mansfield local government district. Mansfield is a part of the Mansfield Urban Area....

 (5 miles), although the nearest town centre is that of Bolsover

Bolsover

Bolsover is a town near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. It is 145 miles  from London, 18 miles  from Sheffield, 26 miles  from Nottingham and 54 miles  from Manchester. It is the main town in the Bolsover district.The civil parish for the town is called...

 (3 miles to the north). It is a village of 1,467 residents, situated on a hill adjoining the village of Bramley Vale

Bramley Vale

Bramley Vale is a village in Derbyshire, England. It is very close to junction 29 of the M1 motorway and has good transport links to Chesterfield, Mansfield, and Nottingham provided by the TM Travel service number 73 and the big pink Pronto bus. It is located four miles south of Bolsover...

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History

This village is listed in the Domesday Book

Domesday Book

Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...

. In 1086, the book notes that Serb holds this for William Peverel

William Peverel

William Peverell , was a Norman knight, and is shown in 'The Battle Abbey Roll' to have fought at the Battle of Hastings.-Biography:...

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"In Clapwell, Liefric had one carucate of land to the geld. There is land for as two ploughs. There eight villans have 6 ploughs... Serb now holds it."

Glapwell colliery closed in the 1970s and now the Eve Trakway company owns the land. 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 (owned by Ian and Glenys Harpham from 1987 to 2004) and two pub/restaurants: The Young Vanish, (this unusual name was that of a 19th century champion race horse) and The Plug and Feathers, otherwise Ma Hubbards, formerly the Glapwell Hotel. The Glapwell Hotel was in fact one of the first places that train travellers would see when leaving the nearby LMS train station. Closed since the 1930s. It also has a social club, The Rowthorne. Glapwell Garden Centre stands on the site of the former Glapwell Hall, the residence of the now extinct Hallowes and Jackson families.

The local football team is Glapwell F.C.

Glapwell F.C.

Glapwell F.C. are a football club based in Glapwell, near Chesterfield in Derbyshire, England.-History:The club were formed in 1985 and joined the Central Midlands Football League Division One in 1989. They reached the 2nd round of the FA Vase in the 1996–97 season...

who play their home games at Hall Corner in the north of the village.

The local cricket team is Glapwell Colliery Cricket Club who play their home games at Park Avenue - website http://glapwellcolliery.play-cricket.com