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 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 → Bretby43 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £5–7
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Bretby88 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £12–15
- Liverpool → Bretby117 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.
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Next door to Bretby
Bretby is 32 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.