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BOLSOVER

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 180 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOLSOVER , an See also:

urban See also:district in the See also:north-eastern See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Derbyshire, See also:England, 52 M. E. of See also:Chester-See also:field, on See also:branch lines of the Midland and the See also:Great Central See also:railways. Pop. (1901) 6844. It lies at a considerable height on a See also:sharp slope above a stream tributary to the See also:river Rother. The See also:castle See also:round which the See also:town See also:grew up was founded According to the theory now generally adopted, the See also:Etruscan See also:Volsinii occupied the site of See also:Orvieto, which was hence called Urbs vetus in See also:late classical and See also:medieval times, while the See also:Roman Volsinii was transferred to Bolaena (see Vonsis I). shortly after the See also:Conquest by See also:William Peveril, but the existing See also:building, a See also:fine castellated See also:residence, was erected on its site in 1613. The town itself was fortified, and traces of See also:early See also:works remain. The See also:church of St See also:Mary is of See also:Norman and later date; it contains some interesting early See also:stone-See also:carving, and monuments to the See also:family of See also:Cavendish, who acquired the castle in the 16th See also:century. See also:Coal-See also:mining and See also:quarrying are carried on in the neighbourhood of Bolsover.

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