Bolsover District is a

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. It is named after the town of

Bolsover Bolsover is a market town and the administrative centre of the Bolsover District, Derbyshire, England. It is from London, from Sheffield, from Nottingham and from Derby. It is the main town in the Bolsover district. The civil parish for th ...

, which is near the geographic centre of the district, but the council is based in Clowne. At the 2011 Census, the district had a population of 75,866. The district is along with

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and

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is a non-constituent member of the

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Town and parish councils

There are fourteen town and parish councils within the district. In addition to the town councils of Old Bolsover and Shirebrook, there are the parish councils of: *

Ault Hucknall Ault Hucknall (Old English: ''Hucca's nook of land'') is a village and civil parish in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,053. Local residents describe the settlement as the ...

* Barlborough * Blackwell * Clowne * Elmton-with-Creswell * Glapwell * Hodthorpe and Belph * Pinxton *

Pleasley Pleasley is a village and civil parish with parts in both Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. It lies between Chesterfield and Mansfield, south east of Bolsover, Derbyshire, England and north west of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. The River Meden, ...

* Scarcliffe * South Normanton * Tibshelf * Whitwell Other settlements include

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, Hilcote, Langwith, Old Blackwell, Newton,

Palterton Scarcliffe is a village and civil parish in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, England. It is sometimes called Scarcliffe with Palterton. The population of the parish (including the hamlets of Palterton, Rylah, Stockley, and parts of Stony Ho ...

, Shirebrook and Westhouses. The current district boundaries date from 1 April 1974, when the urban district of

was merged with Blackwell Rural District and Clowne Rural District.

Council

Bolsover District Council is elected every four years, with currently 37

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s being elected at each election. The Labour Party had a majority on the council from the first election to the council in 1973 until 2019 and after the 2019 election the council was composed of the following councillors: As of November 2020, the

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have 3 councillors after a defection from the singular Lib Dem councillor, Natalie Hoy. The Bolsover District and the nearby

and

alongside the High Peak Borough and

Derbyshire Dales Derbyshire Dales ( ) is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 71,116. Much of it is in the Peak District, although most of its population lies along the River Derwent. The borough borders ...

district are non-constituent members of the wider

References

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