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Dale Abbey

Dale Abbey is a village and civil parish in the borough of Erewash in Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England, 6 miles north east of Derby.

Dale Abbey
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The place

Dale Abbey is a village and civil parish in the borough of Erewash in Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England, 6 miles north east of Derby. The population of the civil parish on the 2011 census was 1,351. Formerly known as Depedale or Deepdale, the village contains the remains of an abbey founded in the 12th or 13th century.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dale Abbey

7 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
    Locko Park

    Locko Park is a privately owned 18th-century country house in between the villages of Stanley and Ockbrook in the borough of Erewash, near Spondon, Derbyshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building, and the park is Grade II listed in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens.

    2.8 km · country house in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints’ Church, Kirk Hallam is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire.

    2.8 km · Anglican church in Kirk Hallam, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Latin House

    Latin House, Risley is a Grade II* listed building in Risley, Derbyshire.

    4 km · house in Risley, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Michael and All Angels

    St Michael and All Angels' Church, Stanton-by-Dale is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Stanton by Dale, Derbyshire.

    2.9 km · historic church in Stanton by Dale, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Wilfrid

    St Wilfrid's Church is a Church of England parish church in West Hallam, Derbyshire. St Wilfrid's Church is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.3 km · church in West Hallam, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ye Olde Cinder House

    Ye Olde Cinder House is a house on Station Road in West Hallam, Derbyshire, and is made of cinder, a type of igneous rock similar to pumice. It has been a Grade II listed building since 1986.

    3 km · house in West Hallam, Erewash, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    All Saints' Church, Ockbrook

    All Saints' Church, Ockbrook, is a parish church in the Church of England located in Ockbrook, Derbyshire.

    3.4 km · church in Ockbrook and Borrowash, 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 Dale Abbey

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 13 km · Birmingham (BHX), 61 km · Manchester (MAN), 76 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Dale Abbey
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £7–10
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Dale Abbey
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £12–17
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Dale Abbey
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dale Abbey

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 Dale Abbey. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Castle Donington, 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

    251 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    300 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    382 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    417 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    424 km

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

Around it

Next door to Dale Abbey

Dale Abbey is 14 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Erewashlocal government district with borough status in eastern Derbyshire, England3.9 km
  • West Hallamvillage in Erewash district, Derbyshire, England2.8 km
  • Stanton-by-Dalevillage and civil parish in Erewash District, Derbyshire, England2.9 km
  • Risleyvillage and civil parish in Erewash District, Derbyshire, England3.9 km
  • Ockbrookvillage in Derbyshire, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Stanley and Stanley Commoncivil parish in Erewash district, Derbyshire, England3.2 km