Barlborough

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Barlborough
Derbyshire
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Crossroads of High Street and New Road/Ward Lane
Location
Grid reference: SK476769
Location: 53°17’13"N, 1°17’13"W
Data
Population: 3,261  (2011)
Post town: Chesterfield
Postcode: S43
Local Government
Council: Bolsover
Parliamentary
constituency:
Bolsover

Barlborough is a village and parish in Derbyshire. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 3,018, increasing to 3,261 at the 2011 Census.[1] The village is near junction 30 of the M1 motorway and is about five miles north of Bolsover. It is near to Clowne. A mile west of the village is a small Grade II listed stately home named Beightonfields Priory, seat of the Bowden family, which may have been a monastic site.

Notable residents

  • John Osborne, goalkeeper for West Bromwich Albion, who won an FA Cup winner's medal in 1967–68, was born here in 1940.[2]
  • Francis Rodes built nearby Barlborough Hall in the 1580s.

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