Birch Vale
Birch Vale is a village in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, just outside the boundary of the Peak District National Park, between New Mills and Hayfield.
Birch Vale is a village in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, just outside the boundary of the Peak District National Park, between New Mills and Hayfield. Most of Birch Vale, including the attached hamlet of Thornsett, comes under the administration of New Mills Town Council, though the small part to the east of the former Grouse Inn public house is within the boundaries of Hayfield.
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Worth seeing in and around Birch Vale
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.
- 01Kinder Reservoir
Kinder Reservoir is a public water storage reservoir on the western edge of Kinder Scout plateau in Derbyshire. The reservoir lies at the head of the Kinder Valley, 278 metres above sea level and 3 kilometres to the north east of the village of Hayfield.
3.7 km · reservoir in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Matthew
St Matthew's Church, Hayfield, is the parish church of Hayfield, Derbyshire, England. The church, parts of which date from the 14th century, is a Grade II listed building and adjacent to the River Sett.
1.4 km · church building in Hayfield, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Lantern Pike
Lantern Pike is a hill near Hayfield, in Derbyshire, England. The land lies within the Peak District National Park and is owned and maintained by the National Trust.
1.4 km · hill in Derbyshire, UK · Wikipedia - 04New Mills Town Hall
New Mills Town Hall is a municipal building on Spring Bank, New Mills, Derbyshire, England. Constructed of local gritstone, it was opened in 1871 as a public hall for the Mechanics Institute, and became a town hall in 1895 upon the creation of New Mills Urban District Council, which used it as administrative headquarters until its 1974 abolition.
2.6 km · town hall in Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Birch Vale
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 21 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 58 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 59 km
- Stations
- New Mills Central railway station, 3 km · New Mills Newtown railway station, 3.5 km · Furness Vale railway station, 3.6 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Birch Vale54 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £6–9
- Liverpool → Birch Vale67 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £7–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Birch Vale24 km · quickest by road, 55 min · £3.5–4.5
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No local-transport research exists yet for Birch Vale
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 Birch Vale. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Birch Vale
Birch Vale is 21 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- New Millstown and civil parish in Derbyshire, England3 km
- Hayfieldvillage and civil parish in High Peak, Derbyshire, UK1.8 km
- Furness Valevillage in Derbyshire, England3.6 km
- Newtownsuburb of New Mills, Derbyshire, England, UK3.4 km
- Hague Barvillage in Derbyshire, United Kingdom4 km
- Whitlehamlet in Derbyshire, United Kingdom2.4 km