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Brimington

Brimington is a large village and civil parish in the Borough of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, England.

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The place

Brimington is a large village and civil parish in the Borough of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, England. The population of the parish taken at the 2011 census was 8,788. The town of Staveley is to the east, and Hollingwood is nearby. The parish includes Brimington Common along the Calow Road, and New Brimington, a late 19th-century extension towards the Staveley Iron Works.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Brimington

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
    Chesterfield

    Chesterfield is a market and industrial town in the county of Derbyshire, England. It is 24 miles north of Derby and 11 miles south of Sheffield at the confluence of the Rivers Rother and Hipper.

    3.5 km · market town and unparished area in Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Proact Stadium

    SMH Group Stadium is an all-seater football stadium in Whittington Moor, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, on the site of the former Dema Glassworks. It is the home of Chesterfield Football Club, replacing Saltergate as the club's stadium from the start of the 2010–11 season.

    2.5 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield

    Chesterfield Parish Church is an Anglican church dedicated to Saint Mary and All Saints, in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. Building of the church began in 1234 AD, though the present church dates predominantly from the 14th century.

    3.3 km · church with crooked spire in Chesterfield · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Holy Trinity Church, Chesterfield

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

    3.2 km · grade II listed church in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Chesterfield Canal

    The Chesterfield Canal is a narrow canal in the East Midlands of England and it is known locally as 'Cuckoo Dyke'. It was one of the last of the canals designed by James Brindley, who died while it was being constructed.

    2.9 km · Canal in the East Midlands of England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Tapton House

    Tapton House, in Tapton, Derbyshire, England, was once the home of engineer George Stephenson, who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives. Tapton has been a gentleman's residence, a ladies' boarding school and a co-educational school.

    2.1 km · country house in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Chesterfield Town Hall

    Chesterfield Town Hall is a municipal building on Rose Hill, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

    3.6 km · building in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Annunciation Church

    Annunciation Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1854.

    3.4 km · grade II listed catholic church in Chesterfield, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Chesterfield College

    Chesterfield College is a further and higher education college in the town of Chesterfield in North East Derbyshire, England. The main college campus is based at Infirmary Road Chesterfield.

    3.1 km · college in Derbyshire, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Chesterfield Museum and Art Gallery

    Chesterfield Museum and Art Gallery is a local museum and art gallery in the town of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. The hall was named in honour of the British railway pioneer George Stephenson and the museum has a collection of objects relating to the history of the town and its people.

    3.2 km · local museum in Chesterfield, 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 Brimington

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 48 km · Manchester (MAN), 60 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 70 km
Stations
Chesterfield railway station, 2.9 km · Chesterfield coach station, 3.7 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Brimington
    38 km · quickest by road, 59 min · £4–6
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Brimington
    61 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £7–9
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Brimington
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £7–10
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Brimington

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextFor a day trip by public transport, the most accessible is along the Hope Valley railway line through Grindleford, Hathersage, Hope and Edale.

From Wikivoyage: Sheffield, 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

    286 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    322 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    354 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    388 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    415 km

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Around it

Next door to Brimington

Brimington is 15 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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