Alfreton
Alfreton is a town and civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England.
Alfreton is a town and civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England. The town was formerly a Norman Manor and later an Urban District. The population of the Alfreton parish was 8,799 at the 2021 census. The villages of Ironville, Riddings, Somercotes and Swanwick were historically part of the Manor and Urban District, and the population including these was 24,476 in 2001.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Wingfield Manor
South Wingfield, DE55 7NH (3 miles west of Alfreton).
From Wikivoyage: Alfreton, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Bluey's Aussie Bar & Steakhouse
32 Nottingham Road,.
- 02The Schoolhouse
43 Church St, South Normanton,.
From Wikivoyage: Alfreton, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Alfreton
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 30 km · Manchester (MAN), 66 km · Birmingham (BHX), 76 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Alfreton71 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £8–11
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Alfreton77 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £9–11
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Alfreton78 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £9–12
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Alfreton
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Alfreton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inRailway stations at for the town or (1.5 miles S) for the scenic Derwent gorge area, the Heights of Abraham attraction, caves and cable car service.
From Wikivoyage: Matlock, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.
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If you know how people move in Alfreton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Alfreton
Alfreton is 22 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.