Derbyshire
Bolsover District
Old Bolsover

Bolsover Castle

Bolsover Castle is in the town of , in the north-east of the English county of . Built in the early 17th century, the present castle lies on the earthworks and ruins of the 12th-century medieval castle; the first structure of the present castle was built between 1612 and 1617 by Sir Charles Cavendish.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: castle in England
  • Also known as: “Bolsover Castle: eleventh century motte and bailey castle, twelfth century tower keep castle and seventeenth century country hou”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Bolsover Cundy House and St Mary and St Laurence’s Church, Bolsover.

Historic building
Photo: Gordon Elliott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a restored 17th-century conduit house in Derbyshire, England, that was used to supply water to the nearby Bolsover Castle. It is near Houfton Road in . is situated 900 feet northeast of Bolsover Castle.

Church
Photo: Immanuel Giel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Mary and St Laurence's Church, Bolsover is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in , . is situated 1,900 feet southeast of Bolsover Castle.

School
is a mixed secondary school located in in the English county of . The previous buildings were closed in July 2010 and later demolished, replaced by a new-build nearby on the former . is situated 1 mile southeast of Bolsover Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bolsover and Carr Vale.

Photo: Lynne Glazzard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small market town of about 12,000 people in . The district of contains fourteen small towns.

Suburb
Photo: Alan Heardman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small village attached to the New Bolsover model village, , , England. It is under town. It was begun in the late nineteenth century to house miners of the Bolsover Mining Company.

Village
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is a village situated about 2 miles north of , in , , England. It is centred on the crossroads of two main roads; - and -.

Bolsover Castle

Latitude
53.23098° or 53° 13′ 52″ north
Longitude
-1.29729° or 1° 17′ 50″ west
Elevation
551 feet (168 metres)
Operator
English Heritage
Open location code
9C5W6PJ3+93
Open­Street­Map ID
way 198677355
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6287308
Wiki­data ID
Q2968590
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Bolsover Castle” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Bolsover gaztelua”
  • Cebuano: “Bolsover Castle”
  • Chinese: “博爾索弗城堡”
  • Danish: “Bolsover Castle”
  • Dutch: “Bolsover Castle”
  • Dutch: “Kasteel van Bolsover”
  • French: “château de Bolsover”
  • French: “Château de Bolsover”
  • German: “Bolsover Castle”
  • Irish: “Caisleán Bolsover”
  • Italian: “Castello di Bolsover”
  • Japanese: “ボルゾーバー城”
  • Russian: “Замок Болсовер”
  • Swedish: “Bolsover Castle”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bolsover Castle”. Photo: Stephen G Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.