Amber Valley
Amber Valley is a local government district with borough status in the east of Derbyshire, England, taking its name from the River Amber.
Amber Valley is a local government district with borough status in the east of Derbyshire, England, taking its name from the River Amber. Its council is based in Ripley. The district covers a semi-rural area lying to the north of the city of Derby. The district contains four main towns whose economy was based on coal mining and remains to some extent influenced by engineering, distribution and manufacturing, holding for instance the headquarters and production site of Thorntons confectionery.
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Worth seeing in and around Amber Valley
6 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.
- 01Horston Castle
Horston Castle is about 1 mile to the south of the village of Horsley, some 5 miles north of the English city of Derby. The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument but, as of 2018, is on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register as poor condition.
3.3 km · castle in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Clement, Horsley
St Clement's Church, Horsley is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Horsley, Derbyshire.
2.8 km · Grade I listed church in Horsley, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Mary
St Mary the Virgin's Church, Denby is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Denby, Derbyshire.
1.7 km · church in Denby, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Michael
St Michael's Church, Holbrook is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Holbrook, Derbyshire.
4 km · church building in Holbrook, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Shipley Hall
Shipley Hall was a country estate in Shipley, Derbyshire near Heanor and Ilkeston which now forms a Country Park.
3.5 km · country house in Derbyshire, UK · Wikipedia - 06Ye Olde Cinder House
Ye Olde Cinder House is a house on Station Road in West Hallam, Derbyshire, and is made of cinder, a type of igneous rock similar to pumice. It has been a Grade II listed building since 1986.
3.9 km · house in West Hallam, Erewash, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Amber Valley
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 19 km · Birmingham (BHX), 65 km · Manchester (MAN), 70 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Amber Valley68 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £8–10
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Amber Valley72 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £9–12
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Amber Valley86 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £10–13
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No local-transport research exists yet for Amber Valley
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 Amber Valley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Amber Valley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Amber Valley
Amber Valley is 17 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ripleytown and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England3.7 km
- Heanortown in Derbyshire, UK3.4 km
- Kilburnvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England1.8 km
- Holbrookvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England3.9 km
- Horsley Woodhousevillage and civil parish in Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England800 m
- Horsleyvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England2.3 km