Arkwright Town
Arkwright Town, usually referred to as Arkwright, is a village in Sutton cum Duckmanton, North East Derbyshire, England that is notable for being moved to a nearby location in the early 1990s.
Arkwright Town, usually referred to as Arkwright, is a village in Sutton cum Duckmanton, North East Derbyshire, England that is notable for being moved to a nearby location in the early 1990s. The village is between Chesterfield and Bolsover on the A632 road, and was formerly a coal mining village.
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Worth seeing in and around Arkwright Town
2 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.
- 01Tapton House
Tapton House, in Tapton, Derbyshire, England, was once the home of engineer George Stephenson, who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives. Tapton has been a gentleman's residence, a ladies' boarding school and a co-educational school.
3.7 km · country house in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Sutton Scarsdale Hall
Sutton Scarsdale Hall is a Grade I listed Georgian ruined stately home in Sutton Scarsdale, just outside Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
2.8 km · Grade I listed English country house in North East Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Arkwright Town
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 45 km · Manchester (MAN), 62 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 73 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Arkwright Town34 km · quickest by road, 53 min · £3.5–5
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Arkwright Town64 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £7–9
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Arkwright Town64 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £7–10
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No local-transport research exists yet for Arkwright Town
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 Arkwright Town. 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 Arkwright Town – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Arkwright Town
Arkwright Town is 18 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Staveleytown in Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom3.7 km
- Temple Normantonvillage in Derbyshire, England, UK4 km
- Brimingtonvillage and civil parish in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England3.1 km
- Calowvillage and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, England, UK1.2 km
- Sutton cum Duckmantoncivil parish in North East Derbyshire, Derbyshire, England1.3 km
- Long Duckmantonvillage in Derbyshire, United Kingdom1.8 km