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Alvaston

Alvaston is a village and ward of Derby, in the ceremonial county of Derbyshire, England.

Alvaston
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The place

Alvaston is a village and ward of Derby, in the ceremonial county of Derbyshire, England. Alvaston is on the A6 three miles south-east of Derby city centre and probably owes its name to an individual called Ælfwald.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Alvaston

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Pride Park Stadium

    Pride Park Stadium is an all-seater football stadium in Derby, England, which is the home ground of English Football League club Derby County. With a capacity of 33,597, it is the 16th-largest football ground in England.

    2.5 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Elvaston Castle

    Elvaston Castle is a stately home in Elvaston, Derbyshire, England. The Gothic Revival castle and surrounding parkland is run and owned by Derbyshire County Council as a country park known as Elvaston Castle Country Park.

    1.9 km · country house in Elvaston, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Midland Railway War Memorial

    The Midland Railway War Memorial is a First World War memorial in Derby in the East Midlands of England. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and unveiled in 1921.

    3.4 km · war memorial in Derby, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Derby Canal

    The Derby Canal ran 14 miles from the Trent and Mersey Canal at Swarkestone to Derby and Little Eaton, and to the Erewash Canal at Sandiacre, in Derbyshire, England. The canal was authorised by an act of Parliament, the Derby Canal Act 1793 (33 Geo.

    1.7 km · Defunct canal in Derbyshire · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Bartholomew, Elvaston

    St Bartholomew's Church, Elvaston is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Elvaston, Derbyshire.

    1.9 km · church in Elvaston, South Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Stephen's Church, Borrowash

    St Stephen's Church, Borrowash is a parish church in the Church of England in Borrowash, Derbyshire.

    2.9 km · church in Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St. Werburgh's Church, Spondon

    St. Werburgh's Church, Spondon, is a parish church in the Inclusive Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England located in Spondon, Derbyshire.

    2.6 km · grade II listed church in Derby, Derbyshire, England,UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Mary's Church, Chaddesden

    St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Chaddesden, a suburb of Derby, England. One of the oldest churches in the city, it is a Grade I listed building dating back to the mid-14th century.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed church in Derby, Derbyshire, England,UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Mark's Church, Derby

    St Mark's Church, Derby is a parish church in the Church of England in Chaddesden, Derbyshire.

    3.9 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Holy Trinity Church, Derby

    Holy Trinity Church, Derby is a Locally listed former Church of England parish church on London Road in Derby.

    3.8 km · church in Derby, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Alvaston

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 10 km · Birmingham (BHX), 54 km · Manchester (MAN), 76 km
Stations
Derby railway station, 3.4 km · Spondon railway station, 1.8 km · Peartree railway station, 3.3 km · Ramsline Halt railway station, 2.9 km · Sinfin Central railway station, 3.3 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Alvaston
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £7–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Alvaston
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £12–16
  • Liverpool → Alvaston
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £14–18
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Alvaston

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 Alvaston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe airport mainly supports low-cost airlines such as Jet2.com, Ryanair and tour operators like Thomson Airways which serve a range of domestic and European short-haul destinations.

From Wikivoyage: Castle Donington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    246 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    293 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    383 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    419 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    430 km

If you know how people move in Alvaston – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Alvaston

Alvaston is 19 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Elvastonvillage and civil parish in South Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England2.5 km
  • Borrowashvillage in Derbyshire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Spondonsuburb of Derby, United Kingdom2.9 km
  • Ockbrook and Borrowashcivil parish in South Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England3.9 km
  • Allentonsuburb of the city of Derby, England2.1 km
  • Chellastonvillage in Derbyshire, United Kingdom3.5 km