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Cross o' th' Hands

Cross o' th' Hands is a small area of settlement in Derbyshire, England, 10 miles (16 km) north-west of Derby on the A517 road between Hulland and Turnditch.

The place

Cross o' th' Hands is a small area of settlement in Derbyshire, England, 10 miles (16 km) north-west of Derby on the A517 road between Hulland and Turnditch.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cross o' th' Hands

One place 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
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints’ Church, Mugginton is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Weston Underwood, Derbyshire.

    3.6 km · church in Mugginton, Derbyshire, England, UK · 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 Cross o' th' Hands

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 26 km · Manchester (MAN), 60 km · Birmingham (BHX), 63 km
Stations
Idridgehay railway station, 2.4 km · Shottle railway station, 2.1 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Cross o' th' Hands
    68 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Cross o' th' Hands
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £8–10
  • Liverpool → Cross o' th' Hands
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cross o' th' Hands

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 Cross o' th' Hands. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inRailway stations at for the town or (1.5 miles S) for the scenic Derwent gorge area, the Heights of Abraham attraction, caves and cable car service.

From Wikivoyage: Matlock, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    259 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    294 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    367 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    402 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    428 km

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Around it

Next door to Cross o' th' Hands

Cross o' th' Hands is 29 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hulland Wardvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England3 km
  • Windleyvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England2.5 km
  • Turnditchvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England900 m
  • Ravensdale Parkcivil parish in Amber Valley District, Derbyshire, England2.8 km
  • Biggin by Hullandvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire, UK3.3 km
  • Hullandvillage in Derbyshire, UK3.9 km