Darley Abbey
Darley Abbey is a former historic mill village, now a suburb of the city of Derby, in the ceremonial county of Derbyshire, England.
Darley Abbey is a former historic mill village, now a suburb of the city of Derby, in the ceremonial county of Derbyshire, England. It is located approximately 1.4 miles (2.3 km) north of the city centre, on the west bank of the River Derwent, and forms part of the Darley ward along with Little Chester and the West End. The settlement dates back to the medieval era, when it was the site of an Augustinian monastery. In the 18th century, the Evans family developed their planned industrial mill village in the area; Darley Abbey is now part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site.
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Worth seeing in and around Darley Abbey
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.
- 01Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Museum and art gallery in Derby, England, United Kingdom
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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.
Getting to Darley Abbey
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 16 km · Birmingham (BHX), 57 km · Manchester (MAN), 70 km
- Stations
- Derby railway station, 2.9 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Darley Abbey59 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £7–9
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Darley Abbey78 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £12–16
- Liverpool → Darley Abbey113 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £13–18
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Darley 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 Darley Abbey. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Darley Abbey
Darley Abbey is 22 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Derbycity in Derbyshire, in the East Midlands region of England2.2 km
- Derventiosmall town in Roman Britannia900 m
- Breadsallvillage and civil parish in Erewash district, Derbyshire, England2.4 km
- Quarndonvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England3.2 km
- Little Eatonvillage and civil parish in Erewash district, Derbyshire, England3.5 km
- Mackworthvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England3.9 km