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Bamford

Bamford is a village in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England, close to the River Derwent.

Bamford
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The place

Bamford is a village in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England, close to the River Derwent. To the north-east is Bamford Edge, and to the north-west the Ladybower, Derwent and Howden Reservoirs. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 1,115.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bamford

9 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
    Navio Roman fort

    Navio Roman fort overlooks a tight bend of the River Noe at Brough-on-Noe near Hope, Derbyshire, in England. Navio fort and vicus is a Scheduled Monument.

    2.7 km · fort in Hope, High Peak, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Michael and All Angels

    St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Hathersage, is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Hathersage, Derbyshire.

    3.1 km · historic church in Hathersage, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Win Hill

    Win Hill is a hill north west of Bamford in the Derbyshire Peak District of England. Its summit is 462 m above sea level and it is bounded by the River Derwent to the east, the River Noe to the south west and Ladybower Reservoir to the north, with a ridge running north west linking it to Kinder Scout.

    2.6 km · hill in Derbyshire, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Peter

    St Peter’s Church, Hope is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Hope, Derbyshire. The Domesday Book records that Hope had a church although the present parish church, the Church of St Peter, dates from the 14th and 15th centuries with modifications to the chancel dating from 1882.

    3.5 km · church in Hope, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Our Lady of Sorrows, Bamford

    Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Bamford is a Roman Catholic church in the village of Bamford, Derbyshire. The church dates back to the mid-19th century and is a Grade II listed building.

    200 m · Catholic church building in Bamford, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St John the Baptist church

    St John the Baptist church is a C of E church in Bamford in the Hope Valley, Derbyshire, England.

    200 m · Grade II* listed church in Bamford, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Roman Catholic Church of St Michael

    St Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Church, Hathersage is a Grade II* listed Roman Catholic church in Hathersage, Derbyshire. As recorded through official records the building dates back to the early 18th Century and became Grade II* listed on 12 July 1967.

    2.9 km · Catholic church in Derbyshire Dales, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Highlow Hall

    Highlow Hall is a historic Elizabethan manor house in Highlow civil parish, near Hathersage, Derbyshire, England. It was owned by the Eyre family from approximately 1340 to 1842, at which point one branch of the family had already emigrated to the United States.

    3.6 km · Grade II* listed house in Highlow, Derbyshire Dales, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Hope War Memorial

    Hope War Memorial is a 20th-century grade II listed war memorial in Hope, Derbyshire.

    3.4 km · Grade II listed war memorial in Hope, High Peak, Derbyshire, S33 · 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.

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Getting to Bamford

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 39 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 58 km · East Midlands (EMA), 62 km
Stations
Hathersage railway station, 3.6 km · Hope railway station, 2.6 km · Bamford railway station, 1.1 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Bamford
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £6–8
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Bamford
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £6–8
  • Liverpool → Bamford
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bamford

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    297 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    315 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    333 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    368 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    395 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bamford

Bamford is 15 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hathersagevillage and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, UK2.9 km
  • Astonvillage and civil parish in High Peak, Derbyshire, England2.3 km
  • Hopevillage and civil parish in High Peak, Derbyshire, England3.6 km
  • Brough and Shattoncivil parish in Derbyshire, England, UK1.9 km
  • Abney and Abney Grangecivil parish in Derbyshire Dales, England3.7 km
  • Offertonhamlet and civil parish in Derbyshire, England2.8 km