Day Saturday
Date 24/08/2024
Start Time 9:40 am - EARLY START
Walk Name Bolsover to Cresswell; a castle & 2 model villages, DH Lawrence, and the Notts coalfield
Description We start by catching a 53 bus (at 9.50am!) to Bolsover. An hour later we’ll disembark at Bolsover and walk down the hill into the valley to the model village and the site of the colliery. Then we can leg it back up the hill past the castle and strike out across the fields, via the mediaeval village of Elmton, to enter Cresswell through the model village which is by the site of the colliery. We’ll walk on to Cresswell station and catch a train to Worksop, take some refreshment in The Mallard (the station tap) if we have time, then catch a train back to Sheffield for some final refreshment at the Sheffield Tap. Proper day out.
Bus fare, £2. Buy an off-peak single from Cresswell to Sheffield.
Walk Leader Mick N
Notify Please text 07949 596702 by 6pm the day before to sign up
Start Point Gate D6, Sheffield Interchange
Start Point Details Meet at Gate D6. (nb free loos across the road at the Railway Station.)
Catching the #53 bus at 9.50am from Sheffield Interchange to Bolsover.

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Grid Reference SK 35773 87131 - nearest postcode: S1 1DL
Grade B2
Distance 9 miles
Additional Information The 2 collieries opened in the 1890s and the owners provided high class housing for miners & their families, with: running water; gas lighting; social & sports clubs; allotments; health care; a decent shop; schools; and plenty of green space. Both villages have been refurbed and are a mix of social and private housing. Bolsover was already an established town but Cresswell rapidly grew from a rural hamlet into a bustling industrial town with a busy railway station and branches. DH Lawrence used his knowledge of the model villages in a (thinly) disguised description of a car journey that Constance Chatterley takes to Sheffield in Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
Both mines, and the younger ones, in the N Notts coalfield closed in the 1990s
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