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Birchover

Birchover is a village and civil parish in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, England, five miles north-west of Matlock.

The place

Birchover is a village and civil parish in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, England, five miles north-west of Matlock. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 362.

Eagle Tor is a small hamlet on the north-western edge of the parish.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Birchover

10 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
    Holy Trinity Church, Stanton-in-Peak

    Holy Trinity Church, Stanton-in-Peak is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Stanton in Peak, Derbyshire.

    2.1 km · grade II listed building in Stanton, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Michael's Church, Birchover

    St Michael's Church, Birchover, also known as Rowtor Chapel, is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Birchover, Derbyshire. Located in the Peak District National Park, St Michael was built as a privately endowed chapel for the nearby Rowtor Hall.

    300 m · Grade II listed church in Birchover, Derbyshire Dales, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary the Virgin's Church

    St Mary the Virgin's Church, South Darley is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in South Darley, Derbyshire. At the entrance to the churchyard is a memorial to the men from the parish who died in the two world wars.

    3 km · grade II listed church in South Darley, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Parish Church of St Helen

    St Helen's Church, Darley Dale is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Darley Dale, Derbyshire.

    2.9 km · church in Darley Dale, Derbyshire Dales, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Old Millclose engine house and associated features, 570m south west of Cowley Hall

    Old Millclose Mine was a lead mine near Wensley, in Derbyshire, England. The engine house of the mine survives as a ruin; it is a scheduled monument.

    1.9 km · historic site in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Reform Tower

    The Reform Tower, also known as the Earl Grey Tower in Stanton Moor, Derbyshire, is a monument to the 1832 Reform Act. It was built around 1833 by the Thornhill family to commemorate Earl Grey, the Whig Prime Minister who supported the 'Act to amend the representation of the people in England and Wales'.

    1.8 km · building in Stanton, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Stanton Hall

    Stanton Hall is a privately owned country house at Stanton in Peak in the Derbyshire Peak District, the home of the Davie-Thornhill family. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2 km · country house in Stanton in Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St John the Baptist's Church, Winster

    St John the Baptist's Church, Winster is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Winster, Derbyshire.

    1.6 km · grade II listed church in Winster, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    All Saints' Church, Elton

    All Saints’ Church, Elton is a Grade II listed Church of England church in Elton, Derbyshire.

    2 km · church building in Elton, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Winster Market House

    The Market House is a historic building in the Main Street in Winster, a town in Derbyshire, England. The building, which is currently in use a visitor exhibition centre, is a Grade II* listed building.

    1.6 km · market hall in Winster, Derbyshire, England, UK · 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 Birchover

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 42 km · Manchester (MAN), 47 km · Birmingham (BHX), 78 km
Stations
Darley Dale railway station, 3.4 km · Rowsley South railway station, 3.1 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Birchover
    40 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £5–7
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Birchover
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Birchover
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Birchover

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inRailway stations at for the town or (1.5 miles S) for the scenic Derwent gorge area, the Heights of Abraham attraction, caves and cable car service.

From Wikivoyage: Matlock, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    275 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    302 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    352 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    387 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    413 km

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

Around it

Next door to Birchover

Birchover is 28 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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