Newbold, Derbyshire
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Newbold is a village north of Chesterfield, a market town in the English county of Derbyshire.
It is mainly residential in nature. It contains Barnett Observatory on Hastings Close which is a member of the Federation of Astronomical Societies. It also has two schools one of which is usually rated in the top ten to twenty state schools in the country each year by The Times schools league tables, St. Mary's Roman Catholic High School on Newbold Road. The other school in the area, Newbold Community School situated on Highfield Lane, has just been redeveloped with aid of government funding into one site instead of two as before which were ageing and both badly in need of replacement.
There is a collection of shops, pubs to the north and a new indoor and outdoor Tennis Academy to the south near Chesterfield FCs football ground. Towards the end of Newbold Road there is Holme Brook Reservoir and Country Park which is designated a site of Importance for Nature and Conservation. It is host to a variety of plants insects and animals with a large woodland plantation. It is also home to the increasingly rare Skylark. It has popular walking and cycling routes some of which lead to Linacre Reservior.
[edit] War Memorial
The Village has its own War Memorial, which is located opposite both The Nag's Head and The Wheatsheaf, where Littlemoor meets Newbold Road. The War Memorial lists the names of those from the village who died in the First World War.
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