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Brackenfield

Brackenfield is a village and civil parish in the North East Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England.

The place

Brackenfield is a village and civil parish in the North East Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 214.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Brackenfield

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
    Church of Holy Cross

    Holy Cross Church, Morton is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Morton, Derbyshire.

    3.6 km · church in Morton, North East Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Leonard's Church

    St Leonard's Church, Shirland is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Shirland, Derbyshire.

    2.8 km · church in Shirland, North East Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ogston Reservoir

    Ogston Reservoir is a reservoir operated by Severn Trent Water in Derbyshire. It is near the villages of Brackenfield and Ashover and the town of Clay Cross.

    1.1 km · reservoir in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    All Saints' Church, South Wingfield

    All Saints’ Church, South Wingfield is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in South Wingfield, Derbyshire.

    3.5 km · church in South Wingfield, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ashover Hay Primitive Methodist Chapel

    Milltown Methodist Church is a now-closed, listed Methodist chapel in the village of Milltown, Derbyshire. The chapel was founded by Hugh Bourne who formed a society in the district.

    2.5 km · Grade II listed Methodist chapel in the parish of Ashover, North East Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ogston Hall

    Ogston Hall is a privately owned 18th-century country house situated at Brackenfield, near Alfreton, Derbyshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    800 m · country house in Brackenfield, 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 Brackenfield

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 34 km · Manchester (MAN), 61 km · Birmingham (BHX), 78 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Brackenfield
    65 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £8–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Brackenfield
    78 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £9–12
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Brackenfield
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Brackenfield

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 Brackenfield. 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

    272 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    309 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    362 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    397 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    424 km

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

Around it

Next door to Brackenfield

Brackenfield is 28 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Strettonvillage and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, England2.9 km
  • Mortonvillage and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, England3.6 km
  • Wessingtonvillage and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, England1.3 km
  • South Wingfieldvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England3.6 km
  • Shirlandvillage in Derbyshire, England, UK2.3 km
  • Shirland and Highamcivil parish in North East Derbyshire, Derbyshire, England2 km