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Holmgate | |
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Holmgate House | |
Location within Derbyshire | |
OS grid reference | SK372633 |
Civil parish | |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | CHESTERFIELD |
Postcode district | S45 |
Police | Derbyshire |
Fire | Derbyshire |
Ambulance | East Midlands |
UK Parliament | |
Holmgate is a hamlet and nearby housing estate between Clay Cross (where the population can be found) and Ashover, in the district of North East Derbyshire, England.
Clay Cross is served by the Number 51 Stagecoach bus service: Chesterfield – Tupton – Clay Cross – Danesmoor. It runs about every 10 minutes.
Chesterfield railway station (6 miles) provides frequent services to Alfreton, Derby, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds and elsewhere.
The main road through Holmgate is Holmgate Road.
Holmgate is about 45 minutes' drive (road traffic permitting) from East Midlands Airport and 1.5 hours from Birmingham and airports.
Holmgate Evangelical Church (a member of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches) started in 1974 in a community centre; the church grew and moved into its own building in 1981. [3]
Chesterfield is a large market town and unparished area in the Borough of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, 24 miles (39 km) north of Derby and 11 miles (18 km) south of Sheffield at the confluence of the River Rother and River Hipper. In 2011 the built-up-area subdivision had a population of 88,483, making it Derbyshire's second largest settlement after Derby. Its borough, including Whittington, Brimington and Staveley, had a population of 103,801 in 2011. In 2011 the unparished area had a population of 76,753. It has been traced to a transitory Roman fort of the 1st century CE. The name of the later Anglo-Saxon village comes from the Old English ceaster and feld (pasture). It has a sizeable street market three days a week. The town sits on an old coalfield, but little visual evidence of mining remains. Its main landmark is the crooked [spire] of the Church of St Mary and All Saints.
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North Wingfield is a large village and civil parish in the North East Derbyshire District in the county of Derbyshire, England. Located approximately 4½ miles south-east of Chesterfield, and 1 mile north-east of Clay Cross. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 6,505. It is in the North East Derbyshire district. The A6175 road from the M1 motorway to the A61 road runs through the village.
Pilsley is a rural village and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, near Chesterfield. At the 2011 Census the population was 3,487. Pilsley consists of two distinct residential areas known as Lower Pilsley and Pilsley. Lower Pilsley being the northern residential area and Pilsley being the southern residential area. There is some local disagreement as to whether these two areas constitute two separate villages or one larger village. At the start of the village's life, people referred to the area around what is now Pilsley primary as Nether Pilsley. Both areas of the village are united by the same parish council, Pilsley Parish Council, which was formed on 30 January 1874; Pilsley having previously been part of the parish of North Wingfield. Maps show that the village is made up of four separate residential areas, which are, in order of their north to south alignment, Lower Pilsley, Upper Pilsley, Pilsley and Nether Pilsley.
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Chesterfield Road railway station was a small station on the Ashover Light Railway and it served the village of Old Tupton, near Clay Cross, North East Derbyshire, England. The station was situated just before a large bridge that went over the Chesterfield to Derby road. It had a small wooden shelter, and was accessed by a flight of steps down to the road. It was one of the busier stations on the line because buses passed at half-hourly intervals. In 1940, the wooden shelter was destroyed in a gale, and the pieces were used to construct a small store-shed at the back of the Clay Cross locomotive shed. After closure in 1950. The site was demolished and nothing remains of the station or trackbed.
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