Dronfield
Dronfield is a town in North East Derbyshire, England, which includes Dronfield Woodhouse and Coal Aston.
Dronfield is a town in North East Derbyshire, England, which includes Dronfield Woodhouse and Coal Aston. It lies in the valley of the River Drone between Chesterfield and Sheffield. The Peak District National Park is three miles (4.8 km) to the west. The name comes from the Old English Dranfleld, probably meaning an open land infested with drone bees.
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Worth seeing in and around Dronfield
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.
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- 03St John the Baptist's Church, Dronfield
Grade I listed church in Derbyshire, England, UK
400 m · Wikipedia - 04
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- 08Dronfield Manor
Grade II listed building in Dronfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom, used as a library
700 m · Wikipedia - 09
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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 Dronfield
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 53 km · Manchester (MAN), 54 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 64 km
- Stations
- Dore and Totley railway station, 4.3 km · Dronfield railway station, 200 m · Coal Aston Airfield, 2.4 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Dronfield44 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £5–7
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Dronfield54 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £6–8
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Dronfield55 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £6–8
- 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 Dronfield
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 Dronfield. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextFor a day trip by public transport, the most accessible is along the Hope Valley railway line through Grindleford, Hathersage, Hope and Edale.
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Next door to Dronfield
Dronfield is 9 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Holmesfieldvillage and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, England3.5 km
- Barlowvillage and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, England4 km
- Unstonevillage and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, England3 km
- Dorevillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK5.6 km
- Dronfield Woodhousesuburb in Dronfield, Derbyshire, UK2.4 km
- Apperknowlevillage in Derbyshire, England, UK2.4 km