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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
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Slackhall

    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
  2. 02
    Wash

    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
  3. 03
    South 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
  4. 04
    Church 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
  5. 05
    Chapel-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
  6. 06
    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.

    1.8 km · railway viaduct in Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church 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
  8. 08
    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.

    3.8 km · reservoir in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    2.8 km · canal basin in the UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    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.

    2.4 km · hill in Derbyshire, United Kingdom · 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.

Go there

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 Brownside
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £7–9
  • Liverpool → Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £7–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £8–10
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Not yet researched

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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    299 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    305 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    323 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    358 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    385 km

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Around it

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