Apperknowle
Apperknowle is a village in Derbyshire, England.
Apperknowle is a village in Derbyshire, England.
The village is located on the Southwestern slopes of a flat-topped ridge at about 200 m above sea level. The village overlooks the town of Dronfield and the villages of Unstone and Unstone Green in the valley bottom, where the River Drone and the Midland Railway are located.
Above the village is a small grass airstrip that used to belong to British Steel, and is now used for private planes with a couple of new hangars built in the 1980s.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Apperknowle
4 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.
- 01St John the Baptist's Church, Dronfield
St John the Baptist’s Church, Dronfield is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Dronfield, Derbyshire.
2.7 km · Grade I listed church in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Dronfield Civic Hall
Dronfield Civic Hall is a municipal building in the Civic Centre in Dronfield, a town in Derbyshire, in England. The building accommodates the offices and meeting place of Dronfield Town Council and also operates as a community events venue.
3 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia - 03Dronfield Manor
Dronfield Manor is an early 18th-century manor house situated at Dronfield, Derbyshire, which is occupied by the town library. It is a Grade II listed building.
3 km · Grade II listed building in Dronfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom, used as a library · Wikipedia - 04St John The Evangelist Church, Ridgeway
St John the Evangelist Church is a grade II listed Church of England church situated at Ridgeway, within the parish of Eckington, Derbyshire, England. The church opened in 1840, having cost £2,000 to build.
3.5 km · church building in Eckington, North East Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Apperknowle
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 53 km · Manchester (MAN), 57 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 65 km
- Stations
- Dronfield railway station, 2.5 km · Coal Aston Airfield, 400 m
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Apperknowle43 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £4.5–6
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Apperknowle57 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £6–9
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Apperknowle56 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £6–8
- 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 Apperknowle
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 Apperknowle. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextFor a day trip by public transport, the most accessible is along the Hope Valley railway line through Grindleford, Hathersage, Hope and Edale.
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Next door to Apperknowle
Apperknowle is 9 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Dronfieldtown and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, England2.4 km
- Unstonevillage and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, England2.4 km
- Marsh Lanehuman settlement in North East Derbyshire, England, UK2.7 km
- Coal Astonvillage in Derbyshire, England, UK2.2 km
- Unstone Greenhamlet in Derbyshire, England1.9 km
- New Whittingtonvillage in Derbyshire, England3.3 km