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Bretby

Bretby is a village and civil parish in the south of Derbyshire, England, north of Swadlincote and east of Burton upon Trent, on the border between Derbyshire and Staffordshire.

Bretby
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The place

Bretby is a village and civil parish in the south of Derbyshire, England, north of Swadlincote and east of Burton upon Trent, on the border between Derbyshire and Staffordshire. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 893. The name means "dwelling place of Britons". On the A511 road, there is a secondary settlement, Stanhope Bretby, which was the site of Bretby Colliery.

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Getting to Bretby

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 16 km · Birmingham (BHX), 41 km · Manchester (MAN), 77 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Bretby
    43 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £5–7
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Bretby
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £12–15
  • Liverpool → Bretby
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bretby

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 Bretby. 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

    236 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    279 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    386 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    422 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    441 km

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Next door to Bretby

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