Bolsover, United Kingdom

St Mary and St Laurence's Church is a notable historic building. Bolsover also has a Methodist Church, part of the Derbyshire North East Methodist Circuit, which opened in 1896.

In chronostratigraphy, the British sub-stage (formerly 'stage') of the Carboniferous period, the 'Bolsovian' derives its name from a geological exposure at the River Doe Lea, Bolsover.

Bolsover Hospital was completed in 1988, but closed in spring 2019.

The town sought city status in the Platinum Jubilee Civic Honours, but the bid was unsuccessful.

Two railway lines once served the town, but both were early casualties of closure programmes:

The Midland Railway (later part of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway), arrived first with their north–south running Doe Lea branch line from Staveley Town to Pleasley East, opened in September 1890 and thus enabled a through service between Chesterfield and Mansfield to be operated. Bolsover Castle served the town on this line. Services were withdrawn in September 1930.

The other line was the highly ambitious west–east running Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway, later part of the Great Central Railway and subsequently the London & North Eastern Railway. Only the middle section from Chesterfield to Lincoln was ever built, opening in March 1897. Bolsover South served the town on this line. The section between Chesterfield and Shirebrook was brought to a premature demise in December 1951 by the deteriorating state of its biggest engineering feature, the 2,624 yards (2,399 m) Bolsover Tunnel, which ran beneath the limestone ridge on which stands the castle. The tunnel was mostly filled in with colliery waste in 1966–67 and both ends were sealed off. Today, both portals are visible; the eastern portal at the end of an unusually deep sheer-sided cutting in the village of Scarcliffe and the western portal just to the south east side of Bolsover.