Snipe Bog

Snipe Bog is a nature reserve in Old Bolsover, Bolsover District, England. Snipe Bog is situated nearby to the hamlet Leaholme Estate, as well as near the locality Markham Vale Electric Forecourt.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bolsover Castle and Bolsover Cundy House.

Bolsover Castle

Photo: Stephen G Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bolsover Castle is in the town of Bolsover, in the north-east of the English county of Derbyshire. 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.

Bolsover Cundy House

Historic building

Photo: Gordon Elliott, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bolsover Cundy House 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 Bolsover.

St Mary and St Laurence’s Church, Bolsover

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 Bolsover, Derbyshire.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bolsover and Elmton.

Bolsover

Photo: Lynne Glazzard, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bolsover is a small market town of about 12,000 people in Derbyshire. The district of Bolsover contains fourteen small towns.

Elmton

Village

Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Elmton is a linear village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Elmton with Creswell in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, England, approximately equidistant from Bolsover Castle and Creswell Crags.

Heath

Village

Photo: Firetto, Public domain.

Heath is a village in the North East Derbyshire district of the English county of Derbyshire. The civil parish is called Heath and Holmewood. The population of this parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 2,953.

Snipe Bog

Type: Nature reserve
Category: recreation area
Location: Old Bolsover, Bolsover District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.2343° or 53° 14′ 3″ north

Longitude

-1.3127° or 1° 18′ 46″ west

Operator

Welbeck Estates

Open location code

9C5W6MMP+PW

OpenStreetMap ID

way 606106609

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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Localities in the Area

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