Derbyshire Dales
Derbyshire Dales is a local government district in Derbyshire, England.
Derbyshire Dales is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. The district was created in 1974 as West Derbyshire; the name was changed to Derbyshire Dales in 1987. The council is based in the town of Matlock, and the district also includes the towns of Ashbourne, Bakewell, Darley Dale and Wirksworth, as well as numerous villages and extensive rural areas. Much of the district is within the Peak District National Park.
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Worth seeing in and around Derbyshire Dales
8 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.
- 01Tissington Hall
Tissington Hall is an early 17th-century Jacobean mansion house in Tissington, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.4 km · Grade II* listed house in Tissington, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Ashbourne Hall
Ashbourne Hall is a Manor house originally built by the Cockayne family in the 13th century in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. The present building is part of a largely repurposed, Georgian-styled hall built in the 18th century.
3.9 km · manor house in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia - 03St Michael and All Angels Church, Kniveton
St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Kniveton is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Kniveton, Derbyshire.
800 m · Grade I listed church in Kniveton, Derbyshire Dales, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Edmund
St Edmund's Church, Fenny Bentley is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Fenny Bentley, Derbyshire.
2.7 km · Grade II listed church in Fenny Bentley, Derbyshire Dales, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Mary's Church, Tissington
St Mary’s Church, Tissington is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Tissington, Derbyshire.
3.2 km · church in Tissington, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Woodeaves Canal
The Woodeaves Canal was a short, privately owned canal near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England. It was a short waterway, isolated from the rest of the United Kingdom canal network.
1.2 km · privately owned canal near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia - 07All Saints' Church, Bradbourne
All Saints' Church, Bradbourne is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Bradbourne, Derbyshire.
2.4 km · church in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Bradbourne Hall
Bradbourne Hall is a country house near All Saint's Church, within the civil parish of Bradbourne, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire. It is a privately owned Grade II* listed building, and is not open to the public.
2.5 km · country house in Bradbourne, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Derbyshire Dales
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 35 km · Manchester (MAN), 51 km · Birmingham (BHX), 66 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Derbyshire Dales55 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Derbyshire Dales74 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £9–13
- Liverpool → Derbyshire Dales93 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £11–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Derbyshire Dales
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 Derbyshire Dales. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Derbyshire Dales
Derbyshire Dales is 38 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ashbournetown and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England3.9 km
- Knivetonvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England600 m
- Fenny Bentleyvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England2.3 km
- Bradbournevillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England2.5 km
- Hognastonvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England3.5 km
- Atlowvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England3.2 km