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

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.
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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.
- 01Elvaston 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 - 02Locko 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 - 03Church 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 - 04St 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 - 05St. 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 - 06All 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 - 07The 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 - 08Church 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 - 09Borrowash Methodist Church
Borrowash Methodist Church is in Borrowash. Derbyshire, England.
300 m · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 10Moorish 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
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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 → Borrowash59 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £7–10
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Borrowash85 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £12–16
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Borrowash100 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £11–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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.
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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