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Brailsford

Brailsford is a small red-brick village and civil parish in Derbyshire on the A52 midway between Derby and Ashbourne.

Brailsford
Brailsford · Simon Burchell
The place

Brailsford is a small red-brick village and civil parish in Derbyshire on the A52 midway between Derby and Ashbourne. The parish also includes Brailsford Green. The civil parish population at the 2011 Census was 1,118. The village has a pub, a golf club, a post office and a school.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Brailsford

3 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 All Saints

    All Saints’ Church, Mugginton is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Weston Underwood, Derbyshire.

    3.2 km · church in Mugginton, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Christ Church, Long Lane

    Christ Church, Long Lane is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Long Lane, Derbyshire.

    3.6 km · church in Long Lane, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Michael

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

    3.5 km · church in Derbyshire Dales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Brailsford

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 25 km · Birmingham (BHX), 58 km · Manchester (MAN), 61 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Brailsford
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £7–10
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Brailsford
    70 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £8–10
  • Liverpool → Brailsford
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Brailsford

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    255 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    288 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    369 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    404 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    430 km

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

Around it

Next door to Brailsford

Brailsford is 32 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Weston Underwoodvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England3.9 km
  • Hollingtonvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England3 km
  • Shirleyvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England3.5 km
  • Ravensdale Parkcivil parish in Amber Valley District, Derbyshire, England3.1 km
  • Mercastonvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England2.1 km
  • Thurvastonvillage in Derbyshire, United Kingdom3.6 km