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Bolsterstone

Bolsterstone is a village in South Yorkshire, England, south of Stocksbridge, and 8.5 miles to the northwest of the City of Sheffield and within the city borough.

Bolsterstone
Bolsterstone · Mick Knapton
The place

Bolsterstone is a village in South Yorkshire, England, south of Stocksbridge, and 8.5 miles to the northwest of the City of Sheffield and within the city borough. Part of the village lies within the border of the Peak District national park. Bolsterstone had a population of 386 in 2011.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bolsterstone

6 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
    More Hall Reservoir

    More Hall Reservoir is a reservoir located in the Ewden valley near Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The reservoir is situated to the south of Bolsterstone and is linked to the Broomhead Reservoir to the west.

    1.9 km · reservoir in South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Stocksbridge Town Hall

    Stocksbridge Town Hall is a municipal building in Manchester Road in Stocksbridge, a town in South Yorkshire in England. The town hall, which was previously the offices and meeting place of Stocksbridge Urban District Council, is now the home of Stocksbridge Town Council as well as other community organisations.

    1.7 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Glen Howe Park

    Glen Howe Park is a public recreation area in the village of Wharncliffe Side within the City of Sheffield, England. The park covers an area of 19 acres in the valley of the Tinker Brook, a minor tributary of the River Don.

    3.4 km · park in Wharncliffe Side, South Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Canyards Hills

    Canyards Hills is a 64.1 hectare biological and geological site of Special Scientific Interest in South Yorkshire. The site was notified in 1990.

    2.6 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Broomhead Reservoir

    Broomhead Reservoir is a reservoir located in the Ewden Valley, near Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. The reservoir is located to the south of Bolsterstone and is linked to the More Hall Reservoir to the east.

    800 m · reservoir in South Yorkshire, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Mary's Church, Bolsterstone

    St Mary's Church, Bolsterstone is situated in the village of Bolsterstone, within the boundary of the City of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. The church dates from 1879 although there is evidence that a place of worship has existed on the site since the 12th century.

    0 m · grade II listed church in Bolsterstone, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 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 Bolsterstone

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 45 km · Manchester (MAN), 47 km · East Midlands (EMA), 73 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Bolsterstone
    37 km · quickest by road, 56 min · £4.5–6
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Bolsterstone
    43 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £5–7
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Bolsterstone
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £8–10
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bolsterstone

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextFor a day trip by public transport, the most accessible is along the Hope Valley railway line through Grindleford, Hathersage, Hope and Edale.

From Wikivoyage: Sheffield, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    310 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    328 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    329 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    362 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    389 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bolsterstone

Bolsterstone is 13 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Stocksbridgetown in the City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England1.3 km
  • Deepcarvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK1.8 km
  • Wharncliffe Sidevillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Green Moorhamlet in South Yorkshire, England, UK2.9 km
  • Brightholmleerural hamlet in the City of Sheffield, England2.6 km
  • Wigtwizzlehamlet in South Yorkshire, England3.1 km