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Borrowash

Borrowash is a village in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England, situated immediately east of the Derby city boundary.

Borrowash
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The place

Borrowash is a village in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England, situated immediately east of the Derby city boundary. The appropriate civil parish is called Ockbrook and Borrowash.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Borrowash

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
    Elvaston Castle

    Elvaston Castle is a stately home in Elvaston, Derbyshire, England. The Gothic Revival castle and surrounding parkland is run and owned by Derbyshire County Council as a country park known as Elvaston Castle Country Park.

    2 km · country house in Elvaston, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Locko Park

    Locko Park is a privately owned 18th-century country house in between the villages of Stanley and Ockbrook in the borough of Erewash, near Spondon, Derbyshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building, and the park is Grade II listed in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens.

    3.8 km · country house in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Bartholomew, Elvaston

    St Bartholomew's Church, Elvaston is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Elvaston, Derbyshire.

    2.1 km · church in Elvaston, South Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Stephen's Church, Borrowash

    St Stephen's Church, Borrowash is a parish church in the Church of England in Borrowash, Derbyshire.

    400 m · church in Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St. Werburgh's Church, Spondon

    St. Werburgh's Church, Spondon, is a parish church in the Inclusive Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England located in Spondon, Derbyshire.

    2.6 km · grade II listed church in Derby, Derbyshire, England,UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    All Saints' Church, Ockbrook

    All Saints' Church, Ockbrook, is a parish church in the Church of England located in Ockbrook, Derbyshire.

    1.2 km · church in Ockbrook and Borrowash, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    The Homestead

    The Homestead is a nine-bedroom Georgian house in the conservation area of Spondon, Derby, England. It is Grade I listed.

    2.4 km · Grade I listed building in Spondon, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Mary

    Boulton St Mary's is the Church of England parish church for the Boulton ward of Derby. It is located on Boulton Lane, Alvaston, Derby, Derbyshire, England.

    3.9 km · church in Boulton, Derby, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Borrowash Methodist Church

    Borrowash Methodist Church is in Borrowash. Derbyshire, England.

    300 m · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Moorish Temple and attached terrace in Elvaston Castle Gardens

    The Moorish Temple is a summerhouse in the gardens of Elvaston Castle, a stately home in Elvaston, Derbyshire. The temple and gardens are owned by Derbyshire County Council as a country park known as Elvaston Castle Country Park.

    2.2 km · Grade II listed garden building in the grounds of Elvaston Castle, South 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.

Go there

Getting to Borrowash

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 9 km · Birmingham (BHX), 56 km · Manchester (MAN), 78 km
Stations
Spondon railway station, 2.4 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Borrowash
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £7–10
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Borrowash
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £12–16
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Borrowash
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Borrowash

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe airport mainly supports low-cost airlines such as Jet2.com, Ryanair and tour operators like Thomson Airways which serve a range of domestic and European short-haul destinations.

From Wikivoyage: Castle Donington, 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

    247 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    296 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    384 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    420 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    426 km

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

Around it

Next door to Borrowash

Borrowash is 16 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Risleyvillage and civil parish in Erewash District, Derbyshire, England3.9 km
  • Elvastonvillage and civil parish in South Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England2.1 km
  • Spondonsuburb of Derby, United Kingdom2.2 km
  • Ockbrookvillage in Derbyshire, United Kingdom1.5 km
  • Draycottvillage in Derbyshire, United Kingdom2.7 km
  • Ockbrook and Borrowashcivil parish in South Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England700 m