This is a list of scheduled monuments in the district of Bolsover in the English county of Derbyshire.
In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a "nationally important" archaeological site or historic building that has been given protection against unauthorised change by being placed on a list (or "schedule") by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport; English Heritage takes the leading role in identifying such sites. [1] Scheduled monuments are defined in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 and the National Heritage Act 1983. There are about 20,000 scheduled monument entries on the list, which is maintained by English Heritage; more than one site can be included in a single entry.
While a scheduled monument can also be recognised as a listed building, English Heritage considers listed building status as a better way of protecting buildings than scheduled monument status. If a monument is considered by English Heritage to "no longer merit scheduling" it can be descheduled. [2]
Derbyshire has over 500 scheduled monuments including many stone cairns, stone circles, barrow burial mounds, lead mining relics, ancient settlements, and over 20 bridges. [3]
| Image | Name and reference | Feature | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ash Tree Cave [4] | Cave | Whitwell SK5148576144 | Excavations conducted since 1934 have discovered artefacts from the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman times. North of Hollin Hill, 2 miles NW of Creswell Crags | |
 | Bolsover Castle [5] | Castle | Old Bolsover, Bolsover SK47007070 | Also a Grade I listed building. [6] Early 17th-century castle, built on the earthworks and ruins of the 12th-century tower keep castle and 11th-century motte-and-bailey castle. The first structure of the present castle was built between 1612 and 1617 by Sir Charles Cavendish. |
 | Creswell Gorge Palaeolithic and later prehistoric sites, including Pinhole Cave, Mother Grundy's Parlour and Robin Hood's Cave [7] | Settlement | Whitwell SK5354474219 | Creswell Crags is a limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, near the villages of Creswell and Whitwell. The cliffs in the ravine contain several caves that were occupied during the last ice age, between around 43,000 and 10,000 years ago. Its caves contain the northernmost cave art in Europe. |
 | Creswell Gorge Palaeolithic and later prehistoric sites, including Boat House Cave and Church Hole Cave [8] | Settlement | Whitwell SK5354474219 | See above |
| Four watchtowers SW of town [9] | Defences | Old Bolsover SK4716470441 | ||
 | Hardwick Old Hall [10] | House | Ault Hucknall SK4617363660 | The substantial ruins of Hardwick Old Hall, an Elizabethan great house. The Old Hall building mostly dates from 1587 until 1597, when Bess of Hardwick relocated to the newly built Hardwick New Hall (only 200m away). Also a Grade I listed building. [11] c.14 km SE of Chesterfield |
 | Langwith Cave [12] | Cave | Scarcliffe SK5179969497 | A round chamber approximately 6m across accessed by several passages. Excavations from 1903 to 1927 found Neolithic remains (from a human burial and a child's skull) as well as Palaeolithic remains (flint instruments, reindeer bones, woolly rhinoceros bones and a number of hearths). |
| Markland Grips promontory fort [13] | Fort | Elmton SK5090875043 | ||
| Medieval town defences [14] | Defences | Old Bolsover SK4733970825 | 183m SE of church of St Mary and St Lawrence and 335m NE of Bolsover Castle | |
| Pinxton Castle, motte and fortified manor with moated site and five fishponds [15] | Castle | Pinxton/South Normanton SK4595456881 | "Pinxton Castle, or sometimes Wynn Castle, includes the motte of a 12th century earthwork castle and a later medieval fortified manor. Remains include a moated site and five fishponds along with a range of perimeter earthworks." [15] | |
 | Pleasley Colliery [16] | Mining | Pleasley SK4986164354 | A former coal mine since the 1870s and produced coal until 1983. Rare and only surviving pithead arrangement in the UK of two steam engines in the same engine house between two mine shafts. The wnginehouse, chimney and headstocks also constitute a Grade II listed building. [17] |
| Stainsby defended manorial complex including site of chapel [18] | Settlement | Ault Hucknall SK4490965638 | ||
 | Standing cross [19] | Cross | Barlborough SK4761577275 | Also a Grade II* listed building. [20] |
 | Standing cross, Clowne [21] | Cross | Clowne SK4915075434 |
