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Breadsall

Breadsall is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Erewash in Derbyshire, England.

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The place

Breadsall is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Erewash in Derbyshire, England. The population of the village at the 2021 census was 792. Breadsall Priory is one of the oldest buildings in the village. The village is almost contiguous with both Derby to the south and southeast and Little Eaton to the north.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Breadsall

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
    Derby Museum and Art Gallery

    Derby Museum and Art Gallery is a museum and art gallery in Derby, England. It was established in 1879, along with Derby Central Library, in a new building designed by Richard Knill Freeman and given to Derby by Michael Thomas Bass.

    4 km · museum and art gallery in Derby, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Museum of Making

    Derby Silk Mill, formerly known as Derby Industrial Museum, is a museum of industry and history in Derby, England. The museum is located on the former site of Lombe's Mill, a historic silk mill which marks the southern end of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site.

    3.6 km · museum in Derby, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Derby Cathedral

    The Cathedral Church of All Saints, Derby, better known as Derby Cathedral, is a cathedral church in the city of Derby, England. In 1927, it was promoted from parish church status to that of a cathedral, creating a seat for the Bishop of Derby, which new Episcopal see was created in that year.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed cathedral in Derby, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    University of Derby

    The University of Derby, formerly known as Derby College, is a public university in the city of Derby, England. It traces its history back to the establishment of the Derby Diocesan Institution for the training of schoolmistresses in 1851.

    3.5 km · university in Derby, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Alkmund's Church

    Saint Alkmund's Church was a Victorian church, which stood in a Georgian square between Bridgegate and Queen Street in Derby; this was the only Georgian square in the city. The church and its yard were demolished in 1968 for construction of a road to improve traffic flow.

    3.6 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Derby Racecourse Roman settlement

    The Derby Racecourse Roman settlement was the third settlement in Derby or Derventio which was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. It lies 600m east of Derventio fort in Little Chester, on the outskirts of Derby, in the English county of Derbyshire.

    2.3 km · archaeological site in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    County Cricket Ground, Derby

    The County Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in Derby, England. It has been the home of Derbyshire County Cricket Club since 1871.

    3 km · cricket ground · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Diocese of Derby

    The Diocese of Derby is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury, roughly covering the same area as the County of Derbyshire. Its diocesan bishop is the Bishop of Derby whose seat is at Derby Cathedral.

    3.7 km · Church of England dioceese · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Exeter House

    Exeter House was an early 17th-century brick-built mansion, which stood in Full Street, Derby until 1854. Named for the Earls of Exeter, whose family owned the property until 1757, the house was notable for the stay of Charles Edward Stuart during the Jacobite rising of 1745.

    3.6 km · house in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Horston Castle

    Horston Castle is about 1 mile to the south of the village of Horsley, some 5 miles north of the English city of Derby. The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument but, as of 2018, is on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register as poor condition.

    3.5 km · castle in 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 Breadsall

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 16 km · Birmingham (BHX), 59 km · Manchester (MAN), 71 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Breadsall
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £7–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Breadsall
    79 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £12–16
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Breadsall
    94 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Breadsall

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 Breadsall. 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

    252 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    296 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    377 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    413 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    430 km

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Around it

Next door to Breadsall

Breadsall is 20 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Derventiosmall town in Roman Britannia2.8 km
  • Little Eatonvillage and civil parish in Erewash district, Derbyshire, England1.9 km
  • Quarndonvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England3.8 km
  • Morleyvillage and civil parish in Erewash district, Derbyshire, England2.8 km
  • Darley Abbeyvillage in Derbyshire, United Kingdom2.4 km
  • Cathedral Quarterarea of Derby, England, UK3.7 km