Belph
Belph is a hamlet in the District of Bolsover, Derbyshire, England. It is part of the Welbeck Abbey Estate, on the edge of modern-day Sherwood Forest. The village is south-east of Hodthorpe, south-east of Whitwell and south-west of Worksop. The village is the easternmost settlement in Derbyshire.
The village has two parts, Belph Village and Penny Green. Belph Village consists of about 30 houses either side of a single lane. A number were originally farmhouses; all except Springfield Farm are now private homes.
Penny Green consists of a row of 8 labourers' cottages built in the 1900s on the Whitwell Station Road, and a large stone cottage. The latter was once the Portland Arms. On the Creswell Crags Road are Brook Cottages, three stone-built 19th-century cottages.
An area of the village known as the "Millash" was located where a stream flows from a natural fault. The ruins of two mills survive, the rest of the hamlet being buried under a spoil tip left by the now defunct Whitwell Colliery.Etymology
It has long been thought that the name Belph is a corruption of the Norman French/Saxon "Bulgh" meaning forest stream.
