Oxcroft is a small hamlet in
Bolsover (district)
Bolsover District is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. It is named after the town of Bolsover, which is near the geographic centre of the district, but the council is based in the large village of Clowne to the north. The di ...
,
Derbyshire
Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire to the north, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the south a ...
in
England
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, located to the north of
Bolsover
Bolsover is a market town and the administrative centre of the Bolsover District, Derbyshire, England. It is from Sheffield, from Nottingham and from Derby. It is the main town in the Bolsover district.
The civil parish for the town is c ...
, about 1–2 miles along the
Clowne
Clowne is a town and civil parish in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, England. The population was 7,590 at the 2011 Census and 7,755 at the 2021 Census. It lies north east of Chesterfield and south west of Worksop.
History
Etymology
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New Houghton
New Houghton is a former mining village in the Bolsover District Derbyshire, of Derbyshire, England, from both Bolsover and Mansfield.
Governance
It lies within the civil parish of Pleasley. It is administered as part of the District of Bolso ...
Road. It consists of a few farms and cottages.
Etymology: Probably simply meaning an Ox cottage/farm.
Ox = Ox,
Croft = Farm/Cottage.
Bolsover District
Hamlets in Derbyshire
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