Elmton with Creswell

Elmton with Creswell
The parish includes Creswell, the model village and Elmton
Elmton with Creswell is located in Derbyshire
Elmton with Creswell
Elmton with Creswell
Location within Derbyshire
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWORKSOP
Postcode districtS80
Dialling code01909
PoliceDerbyshire
FireDerbyshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
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53°16′N 1°13′W / 53.26°N 1.22°W / 53.26; -1.22

Elmton with Creswell is a civil parish in the Bolsover district in Derbyshire, England. It covers the villages of Elmton, Creswell and Creswell Model Village.[1] According to Census data in 2001, Elmton with Creswell parish had a population of 4,755,[2] and in 2011 had a population of 5,550.[3] The town lies on the border with Nottinghamshire.

In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Elmton like this:

ELMTON-WITH-CRESSWELL, a parish in the district of Worksop, and county of Derby; on the NE verge of the county, 5 miles E by S of Staveley r. station, and 8 ENE of Chesterfield. Post town, Clown, under Chesterfield. Acres, 2,970. Real property, £4,421. Pop., 469. Houses, 91. The property is divided among a few. Limestone is found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £120. Patron, the Duke of Portland. The church is good. Buxton, the calculating day-labourer, was a native.[4]

  1. ^ Parish official website
  2. ^ "Elmton(Parish): Key Figures for 2001 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  3. ^ "Elmton(Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  4. ^ Wilson, John (1870–72). Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton and Co. Retrieved 22 March 2013.