New Bolsover model village

New Bolsover Model Village
New Bolsover Model Village and Bolsover Castle.
New Bolsover Model Village Location within Derbyshire
OS grid reference	SK465703
District	Bolsover
Shire county	Derbyshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CHESTERFIELD
Postcode district	S44
Police	Derbyshire
Fire	Derbyshire
Ambulance	East Midlands

New Bolsover model village is a village adjoining the town of Bolsover in Derbyshire.

History

The pit village was begun in 1891 by the Bolsover Mining Company.^[1] It is a model village built by philanthropic colliery owners which was to benefit and improve the lives of workers at Bolsover Colliery.

The architects for the village were Arthur Brewill and Basil Baily of Nottingham.^[1][2]

The village had a school and a Cooperative store. On the edge of the village were allotments, pig sties and the village cricket pitch. The village had no public houses, but there was an institute that would serve workers no more than three glasses of beer a day. The colliery company employed a policeman and anti-social behavior could result in fines or dismissal.^[1]

The "Model", as it is known locally, was completed in 1896 by the Bolsover Colliery Company. It had 200 houses for miners and colliery officials. A tram track round the back of the village linked it to the pit and coal was delivered directly from the colliery to the coal store behind each house. The contents of the ash privies were carried away.^[1] The "Model" remains in good repair. Its houses are either privately owned or owned by the local authority.

Architecture

The village houses are built in a double horseshoe around a village green.^[1] Two-storey cottages with attics were built in terraces of eight in red brick with a decorative first floor band and saw tooth eaves cornices. Their Welsh slate roofs have decorative ridge cresting. Each house has three-light casement windows in ashlar surrounds and a doorway with ashlar lintels and an overlight. The first floors have two-light casement windows under chamfered ashlar lintels. Gabled dormers to the attics have two-light casements with small panel glazing.^[3] Similar two-storey cottages were built without dormers to their attics. All the houses have back yards enclosed by brick walls. The village houses are grade II listed buildings.^[4]

See also

• Port Sunlight
• Bournville
• Creswell Model Village
• Woodlands, South Yorkshire

References

Citations

1. Thornes 1994, p. 80
2. Historic England, "New Bolsover Model Village (613327)", Research records (formerly PastScape), retrieved 10 May 2014
3. Historic England, "New Bolsover Nos 24-38 (even) including the attached and associated back yard walls (1108946)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 26 October 2014
4. Historic England, "New Bolsover Nos 159-173 (odd) including the attached and associated back yard walls (1335445)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 26 October 2014

Bibliography

• Thornes, Robin (1994), Images of Industry Coal, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, ISBN 1-873592-23-X

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External links

Media related to New Bolsover model village at Wikimedia Commons

1. "Bolsover Remembered" by Bernard Haigh