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Doveridge

Doveridge is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, United Kingdom, near the border with Staffordshire and about 2 km (1.2 mi) east of Uttoxeter.

The place

Doveridge is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, United Kingdom, near the border with Staffordshire and about 2 km (1.2 mi) east of Uttoxeter. Its name may come from its having a bridge over the river Dove, a tributary of the River Trent. The civil parish population as taken at the 2011 Census was 1,622.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Doveridge

5 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
    St Cuthbert's Church, Doveridge

    St Cuthbert's Church, Doveridge is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Doveridge, Derbyshire.

    500 m · church in Doveridge, Derbyshire Dales, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Somersal Herbert Hall

    Somersal Herbert Hall is a privately owned timber-framed 16th-century country house at Somersal Herbert, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, in England. It is a Grade I listed building.

    2.1 km · Grade I listed English country house in Derbyshire Dales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary the Virgin Church, Uttoxeter

    St Mary the Virgin's Church, Uttoxeter, commonly called simply St Mary's, is the parish church of the town of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England. Its tower and spire were built in the 14th century.

    2.6 km · church in Uttoxeter, East Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Town Hall

    Uttoxeter Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England. The structure, which serves as the meeting place of Uttoxeter Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    2.8 km · town hall in Uttoxeter, East Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Peter's Church, Marchington

    St Peter's Church is a Church of England church in Marchington, Staffordshire. It is the only church in the parish of St.

    3.9 km · church in Marchington, East Staffordshire, 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 Doveridge

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 34 km · Birmingham (BHX), 50 km · Manchester (MAN), 58 km
Stations
Uttoxeter railway station, 2.4 km · Marchington railway station, 3.2 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Doveridge
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £6–8
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Doveridge
    70 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £9–12
  • Liverpool → Doveridge
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £11–14
  • 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 Doveridge

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAlso, you can use the cable car (Skyride) to get between the Park Entrance, Forbidden Valley which is an alien-themed area and Fountain Square, for The Towers, The World of David Walliams (one of the two children's areas of the park) and the Dark Forest.

From Wikivoyage: Alton Towers, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    249 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    273 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

    403 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    428 km

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

Around it

Next door to Doveridge

Doveridge is 46 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Uttoxetertown in Staffordshire, England2.5 km
  • Marchingtonvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Somersal Herbertvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England2.1 km
  • Oaks Greenvillage in Derbyshire, England, UK4 km
  • Crakemarshhamlet in Uttoxeter Rural, East Staffordshire, Staffordshire, England3.5 km
  • Spathvillage in Staffordshire, England, UK3.5 km