8 acre) of meadow and woodland pasture, which is given as two leagues by a league. Bolsover became the seat of the Peverel family and in the 12th century a keep was built. The present castle was erected in 1613.

In 1657, the leading Royalist William Cavendish, 1st Marquess of Newcastle, published his book La Methode et Invention nouvelle de dresser les Chevaux, written in exile in Antwerp during the Cromwellian Protectorate.