Bolsover, satanic capital of Britain

With a long-serving MP nicknamed the Beast of Bolsover, it should perhaps come as little surprise.

But if the latest census survey is to be believed, the former mining town in Derbyshire is a hotbed of Satanism.

The district has the highest concentration of Satanists in England and Wales, according to the countrywide survey, with 17 people out of a population of 75,866 residents claiming Satanism as their religion at the 2011 survey.

The figure gives Bolsover - represented by left-wing firebrand Labour MP Dennis Skinner, whose nickname comes from his outspoken and belligerent manner - a higher proportion of Satanists than Bristol, which topped the census table with 34 Satanists out of a population of 428,234.

That means the number of Satanists in Bolsover works out as 0.02 per cent of the population, compared to 0.008 per cent of the population in Bristol.

Bolsover District Council yesterday urged caution when interpreting the census results for its district, which is on the edge of the Peak District and home to Bolsover Castle.


Ken Walker, chairman of the council, said he had not heard of Satanic activity in the area, adding: ‘There’s the usual traditional harvest festivals or flower festival, but that’s more or less a fundraising job for the churches.

‘I think it’s a load of rubbish.’ Bolsover district includes a number of outlying villages as well as the towns of Bolsover and Shirebrook .

The Church of Satan also poured scorn on the figures, suggesting many people may have lied on their census forms because ‘they think it is funny’.

The organisation was founded in the USA in 1966 as the first ‘above ground organisation’ dedicated to what it describes as man’s true nature of ‘carnal beast’.

Priestess Serena Malone, administrator for the Church of Satan, said: ‘We tend to think someone is playing a prank here.

‘While we have many members throughout the UK, that area does not have any exceptional concentration of our adherents.’

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