Newton and Blackwell

18°COvercast

• Today: 21° / 14° · 22% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 16° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:34Sunset 19:28

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

23US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Chesterfield Roadside, United Kingdom

40 reported · July 2026▲ 21% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences15
• Public order7
• Other theft5
• Anti-social behaviour3

1 stop & searches · mostly article for use in theft

Neighbourhood team: Tibshelf · Derbyshire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

142 reported road collisions (2024)

32 killed or seriously injured · 195 casualties · 17.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

154 food businesses within 2 miles

• 142 rated 4–5 ★ (132 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Alfreton (3.8 km)
• 12 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£188,025 average▲ 6.6% YoY

Across Bolsover · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£710 average monthly rent▲ 5.5% YoY

• 1 bed £500
• 2 bed £648
• 3 bed £751

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

5.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.0 times median annual pay (5.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 158.9p · Esso (6.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 185.7p · Asda (11.7 km)

13 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

27 charging locations within ~8 km

• 13 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: Roadchef Tibshelf Northbound Services (0.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches8
• Playgrounds6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

80,273 residents in Bolsover · 501/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 58 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

4% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,559 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (58% of 38,920)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

43 schools · 10,888 pupils

33 primary · 5 secondary · 5 other

Ofsted: 19 of 21 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (90%)

41inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Bolsover

695 CQC-registered services

• Care homes245
• GP practices111
• Dentists139
• Homecare agencies152
• Hospitals & hospices18

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Derbyshire

• In a conservation area (Newton)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 10 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

57 applications decided

96.5% granted · 55 granted, 2 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Natalie Fleet

Labour

Bolsover

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 22
• Con 1
• Ref 2
• Oth 12

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools4
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies1
• Parks & greens3
• Restaurants & cafés11

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

2,565 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£679 median full-time weekly pay

2.9% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,224 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

48% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 43,191 certificates

13.8% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

35% low-carbon electricity

Gas 60% · Biomass 26% · Wind 7% · Imports 5%

265 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for East Midlands · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82 yrs women · 79.2 yrs men

72% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.0
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.2

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Bolsover:

• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills799 local signatures · 110,383 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office404 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership376 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Legislate to ban FPNs and prosecutions related to school attendance339 local signatures · 94,447 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s311 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

• 
  Newton, Derbyshire · 0.2 km

  Newton is a village in the civil parish of Blackwell, in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, England, about a mile south of Tibshelf.

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  Tibshelf & Newton railway station · 0.7 km

  Tibshelf & Newton railway station was on the Midland Railway's line from Westhouses in Derbyshire to Mansfield Woodhouse. The line opened in 1883, following the opening of Pleasley Colliery in 1878. It closed to passe…

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  Tibshelf services · 1.0 km

  Tibshelf services is a motorway service area operated by Roadchef between junctions 28 and 29 of the M1 motorway in Derbyshire, England.

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  East Midlands (strategic authority area) · 1.2 km

  East Midlands is a strategic authority area in England. It has four council areas: the non-metropolitan counties of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire and the unitary authorities of Nottingham and Derby. It had a populati…

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  Tibshelf Town railway station · 1.3 km

  Tibshelf Town railway station is a disused station on the former Great Central Main Line in the village of Tibshelf in Derbyshire, England.

• Miners Welfare Ground · 1.4 km

  The Miners Welfare Ground is a cricket ground in Blackwell, England that Derbyshire CCC used between 1909 and 1913.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)