Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside
Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside is a civil parish within the High Peak district, which is in the county of Derbyshire, England.

Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside is a civil parish within the High Peak district, which is in the county of Derbyshire, England. Partially rural with several villages contained within, its population was 2,794 residents in the 2021 census. The parish is 150 miles (240 km) north west of London, 35 miles (56 km) north west of the county city of Derby, and 1+1⁄3 miles (2.1 km) north of the nearest market town of Chapel-en-le-Frith. Being close to the edge of the county border, it shares a boundary with the parishes of Chapel-en-le-Frith, Edale, Hayfield, New Mills and Whaley Bridge. A substantial portion of the parish is within the Peak District national park.
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Worth seeing in and around Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside
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.
- 01Slackhall
Slackhall is a hamlet in Derbyshire, England. The hamlet falls within the civil parish of Chapel-en-le-Frith.
3.3 km · hamlet in Chapel-en-le-Frith, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Wash
Wash, or The Wash, is a hamlet in Derbyshire, England. The hamlet falls within the civil parish of Chapel-en-le-Frith.
2 km · hamlet in Chapel-en-le-Frith, High Peak, Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia - 03South Head
South Head is a gritstone hill between the villages of Hayfield and Chinley in the Derbyshire Peak District. The summit is 494 metres above sea level.
1.9 km · hill in the Derbyshire Peak District · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Matthew
St Matthew's Church, Hayfield, is the parish church of Hayfield, Derbyshire, England. The church, parts of which date from the 14th century, is a Grade II listed building and adjacent to the River Sett.
3.7 km · church building in Hayfield, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Chapel-en-le-Frith Town Hall
Chapel-en-le-Frith Town Hall is a municipal building in Market Street, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, England. The structure operates as a community events venue, as well as the offices and meeting place of Chapel-en-le-Frith Parish Council.
2.9 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia - 06Chapel 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.
1.8 km · railway viaduct in Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Church of St James
St. James' Church, Buxworth is a 19th-century Church of England church in the village of Buxworth, Derbyshire.
2.7 km · church building in Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Combs 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.
3.8 km · reservoir in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Bugsworth 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.
2.8 km · canal basin in the UK · Wikipedia - 10Eccles 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.
2.4 km · hill in Derbyshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 23 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 60 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 61 km
- Stations
- Chinley railway station, 1.1 km · Chapel-en-le-Frith railway station, 4 km · Whaley Bridge railway station, 4 km · Furness Vale railway station, 3.8 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside57 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £7–9
- Liverpool → Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside69 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £7–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside68 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £8–10
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No local-transport research exists yet for Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside
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 Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside
Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside is 25 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Whaley Bridgetown and civil parish in Derbyshire, England3.9 km
- Chapel-en-le-Frithtown and civil parish in High Peak, Derbyshire, England3 km
- Hayfieldvillage and civil parish in High Peak, Derbyshire, UK3.7 km
- Chinleyvillage in Derbyshire, England2.4 km
- Furness Valevillage in Derbyshire, England3.9 km
- Buxworthvillage in Derbyshire, UK2.8 km