A path to the left of the Nag's Head pub leads past a late-Saxon chapel, which belonged to the local Roman Catholic Eyre family, and contains 12 coffins in a crypt.

Eyre's chapel stands geographically on the highest point of Newbold Village.

Due to persistent vandalism, the chapel windows were bricked up in the 1970s and access restricted.

Nearby is the Barnett Observatory on Hastings Close, which is a member of the Federation of Astronomical Societies.

There is a collection of shops, pubs to the north and a new indoor and outdoor Tennis Academy to the south near Chesterfield FC's original football ground at Saltergate.

Towards the end of Newbold Road there is Holme Brook Reservoir and Country Park, 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 says, under the heading of 'The lands of the King':[5] In Newbold with six berewicks – Old Whittington, Brimington, Tapton, Chesterfield, Boythorpe, Eckington – there are six carucates and one bovate to the geld.

TRE[6] worth £6 now £10"[7] The population of Newbold increased dramatically during the late 19th century because of the Industrial Revolution.

There was an increase of coal mining in the area and the production of earthenware, bricks and tiles was in abundance.

Stone bottles and coarseearthenware are manufactured in several establishments; and bricks and tiles are made.

"The village has a war memorial, opposite The Nag's Head public house, where Littlemoor meets Newbold Road.