Calke
Calke is a small village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England.
Calke is a small village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. It includes the historic house Calke Abbey, a National Trust property, although the main entrance to its grounds is from the neighbouring village of Ticknall, where the population of Calke is included. The settlement name Calke means "calc" (Anglian) Chalk, lime, limestone. Results from the 2011 census shows Calke to contain around 10 households with a population of about 24.
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Getting to Calke
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 9 km · Birmingham (BHX), 43 km · Manchester (MAN), 83 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Calke46 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £5–7
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Calke93 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £13–17
- Liverpool → Calke123 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £14–19
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Calke
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 Calke. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Calke
Calke is 27 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.