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Coal Aston

Coal Aston is a village in the civil parish of Dronfield, in the North East Derbyshire district, in the county of Derbyshire, England.

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The place

Coal Aston is a village in the civil parish of Dronfield, in the North East Derbyshire district, in the county of Derbyshire, England. It is by the town of Dronfield.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Coal Aston

9 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
    Beauchief Abbey

    Beauchief Abbey is a medieval monastic house now serving as a parish church in the southern suburbs of Sheffield, England.

    3.6 km · abbey in Beauchief, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St John the Baptist's Church, Dronfield

    St John the Baptist’s Church, Dronfield is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Dronfield, Derbyshire.

    1.5 km · Grade I listed church in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Graves Park

    Graves Park is a large parkland area in the South of Sheffield, between the districts of Norton, Woodseats and Meadowhead. The park was developed by Alderman J. G. Graves between 1926 and 1936, to protect the thousand year old woodland from building development.

    2.8 km · park in Sheffield, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Peter, Greenhill

    St Peter's Greenhill is a Parish Church in the Church of England Diocese of Sheffield located in the Greenhill area of the city. The church was built between 1964 and 1965 to serve the housing development that was built at what was then the edge of Sheffield.

    2.5 km · church · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Norton Hall

    Norton Hall is an English country house situated on Norton Church Road in the suburb of Norton in Sheffield, England. For most of its history it has been a private residence, in its latter history it has been used as a NHS hospital, a private hospital and has now been converted into high quality apartments.

    2.6 km · Grade II listed English country house in Norton, Sheffield, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St James, Norton

    St James, Norton is the Church of England parish church of the Norton district of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

    2.6 km · church in Norton, Sheffield, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Dronfield Civic Hall

    Dronfield Civic Hall is a municipal building in the Civic Centre in Dronfield, a town in Derbyshire, in England. The building accommodates the offices and meeting place of Dronfield Town Council and also operates as a community events venue.

    1.6 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Dronfield Manor

    Dronfield Manor is an early 18th-century manor house situated at Dronfield, Derbyshire, which is occupied by the town library. It is a Grade II listed building.

    1.6 km · Grade II listed building in Dronfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom, used as a library · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Abbey Lane Cemetery

    Abbey Lane Cemetery is a cemetery located on Abbey Lane, Beauchief, Sheffield.

    3.9 km · cemetery in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England · 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 Coal Aston

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 54 km · Manchester (MAN), 55 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 63 km
Stations
Dronfield railway station, 1.4 km · Coal Aston Airfield, 2 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Coal Aston
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £5–7
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Coal Aston
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £6–8
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Coal Aston
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £6–8
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Coal Aston

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 Coal Aston. 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

    292 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    323 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    346 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    381 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    408 km

If you know how people move in Coal Aston – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Coal Aston

Coal Aston is 8 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Dronfieldtown and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, England1.2 km
  • Unstonevillage and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, England3.8 km
  • Apperknowlevillage in Derbyshire, England, UK2.2 km
  • Unstone Greenhamlet in Derbyshire, England3.2 km
  • Dronfield Woodhousesuburb in Dronfield, Derbyshire, UK3.1 km
  • Cowleyvillage in Derbyshire, United Kingdom3.5 km