Buxworth

Worth seeing in and around Buxworth

8 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
   Taxal

   Whaley Bridge is a town and civil parish in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England. It is situated on the River Goyt, 16 miles south-east of Manchester, 7 miles north of Buxton, 9 miles north-east of Macclesfield and 28 miles west of Sheffield.

   2.8 km · village in Whaley Bridge, High Peak, Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Toddbrook Reservoir

   Toddbrook Reservoir, a feeder for the Peak Forest Canal, opened in 1838. It is above the town of Whaley Bridge in the High Peak area of Derbyshire, England.

   2.1 km · reservoir in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Chapel Milton Viaduct

   Chapel Milton Viaduct is a Grade II listed bifurcated railway viaduct on the Great Rocks Line at its junction with the Hope Valley Line, straddling the Black Brook valley in Chapel Milton, Derbyshire, England. The first section of the viaduct, built by the Midland Railway in 1867, diverges and curves to the west while the second, built in 1890, curves to the east as the line, coming up from the south, links up with the main line between Sheffield and Manchester.

   3.5 km · railway viaduct in Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Combs Reservoir

   Combs Reservoir is a canal-feeder reservoir in the Peak District National Park, close to Combs village in Derbyshire. The town of Chapel-en-le-Frith lies about 1 kilometre east of the reservoir.

   3.1 km · reservoir in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Railway Bridge

   Buxton Road Bridge is a railway bridge over the A5004 road in Whaley Bridge, in the High Peak district, in the county of Derbyshire, England. It carries the Buxton line.

   1.4 km · Grade II listed railway bridge in Whaley Bridge, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Church of St James

   St. James' Church, Buxworth is a 19th-century Church of England church in the village of Buxworth, Derbyshire.

   100 m · church building in Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Bugsworth Basin

   Bugsworth Basin is a canal basin at the terminus of the Peak Forest Canal at Buxworth in the valley of the Black Brook, close to Whaley Bridge. It was once a busy interchange with the Peak Forest Tramway, for the transport of limestone and burnt lime.

   300 m · canal basin in the UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Eccles Pike

   Eccles Pike is an isolated hill three miles west of Chapel en le Frith in the Derbyshire Peak District, England. It consists of gritstone, pink in colour at the summit.

   1.7 km · hill in Derbyshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Buxworth

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 21 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 58 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 62 km

Stations

Chinley railway station, 1.8 km · New Mills Central railway station, 3.9 km · New Mills Newtown railway station, 3.6 km · Whaley Bridge railway station, 1.3 km · Furness Vale railway station, 1.8 km

• Liverpool → Buxworth

  68 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £7–10
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• Leeds, West Yorkshire → Buxworth

  58 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £8–11
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Buxworth

  69 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £8–10
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