Glapwell, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Glapwell, a township in Bolsover parish, Derbyshire, 5¼miles NW of Mansfield, and 1¼ mile from Pleasley station <—n the M.R. It has a post office under Chesterfield; money order and telegraph office, Heath. Acreage, 774; population, 86. The Duke of Portland is lord of the manor. Glap-well Hall is the seat of the Hallowes family. There was once a chapel here, under Darling Abbey.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Derbyshire | |
Civil parish | Bolsover | |
Hundred | Scarsdale | |
Poor Law union | Mansfield |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in conjunction with the Derbyshire Record Office, have the Church of England Baptisms (1538-1916), Marriages and Banns (1538-1932), and Burials (1538-1991) online.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Glapwell from the following:
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Glapwell are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Derbyshire papers online: