Newbold, Derbyshire
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 The Wheatsheaf Public House, Newbold. |
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| Newbold shown within Derbyshire | |
| Population | 7,962 |
| OS grid reference | SK369729 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Chesterfield |
| Postcode district | S41 8 |
| Dialling code | 01246 |
| Police | Derbyshire |
| Fire | Derbyshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
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Newbold is a village north of Chesterfield, a market town in the English county of Derbyshire. In 2001 it had a population of just under 8,000.
It is mainly residential in nature. There are 2 secondary schools, St. Mary's Roman Catholic High School on Newbold Road, which is usually rated in the top ten to twenty state schools in the country each year by The Times schools league tables, and Outwood Academy Newbold on Highfield Lane. The school reopened in 2006 after being rebuilt with the aid of government funding. The school was previously split across 2 locations known as Upper Site and Lower Site and both buildings were ageing and badly in need of replacement.
Saint John's Church of England parish church was built in 1857 and its churchyard contains the grave of John Lauder (d.1882), the father of Sir Harry Lauder. Next door to the church is 'The Eagle Club'. Also on St John's Road there are 2 veterinary practices and a police house.
A path to the left of the Nag's Head pub leads past a late-Saxon chapel, which belonged to the local Roman Catholic Eyre family, and contains 12 coffins in a crypt. Eyre's chapel stands geographically on the highest point of Newbold Village. It was used as the local Roman Catholic church for many years until the present church, on the corner of Littlemoor and Dukes Drive was built in the mid-1960s. Due to persistent vandalism, the chapel windows were bricked up in the 1970s and access restricted. More recently, some restoration of the chapel has taken place.
Nearby is the Barnett Observatory on Hastings Close which is a member of the Federation of Astronomical Societies.
The name of Hastings Close is linked to the Battle of Hastings and the name of Dukes Drive is linked to the large local landholdings which used to be held by the Duke of Devonshire, and this road was built on land sold by the Duke for residential housing in the 1930s.
In the early 1960s the road leading off Littlemoor, by the side of the Goldminers public house, was named Windermere Road. It used to be called Bargh's Lane and had a row of old stone cottages. Bargh's Lane led to open farmland until the building of the council estates. There is now a private dentist's practice on the corner of Windermere and Littlemoor, which is situated next-door to a pharmacy (Dent's Chemists), the doctor's (Newbold Surgery) and Newbold Library.
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