Belph

infobox UK place
country = England
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static_image_caption=Whitwell Colliery spoil heap, Belph.
latitude= 53.26
longitude=-01.19
official_name =Belph
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shire_county= Derbyshire
region= East Midlands
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os_grid_reference= SK5475

Belph is a village or hamlet in the District of Bolsover,Derbyshire, England. It is part of the Welbeck Abbey Estate, on the edge of Sherwood Forest. The village is located 1.5 miles south-east of Hodthorpe, 2.5 miles south-east of Whitwell and 3 miles south-west of Worksop.

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 1900's on the Whitwell Station Road and a large stone cottage. The latter was once the Portland Arms (a pub). On the Cresswell Crags Road are Brook Cottages, 3 stone built cottages of the 19th century.

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 waste Coal and Slag heap 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.