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Elvaston, Derbyshire

Elvaston is a small village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England.

Elvaston, Derbyshire
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The place

Elvaston is a small village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England. The parish also includes two hamlets, Ambaston and Thulston, and a modern housing estate, Boulton Moor. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was 1,801.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Elvaston, Derbyshire

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.

  1. 01
    Elvaston Castle

    Elvaston Castle is a stately home in Elvaston, Derbyshire, England. The Gothic Revival castle and surrounding parkland is run and owned by Derbyshire County Council as a country park known as Elvaston Castle Country Park.

    600 m · country house in Elvaston, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints’ Church, Aston upon Trent is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Aston-on-Trent, Derbyshire.

    3.3 km · Anglican church in Aston-on-Trent, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St James Church, Shardlow

    St James’ Church, Shardlow is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Shardlow, Derbyshire.

    3.4 km · grade II listed building in Shardlow and Great Wilne, South Derbyshire, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Bartholomew, Elvaston

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

    600 m · church in Elvaston, South Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Stephen's Church, Borrowash

    St Stephen's Church, Borrowash is a parish church in the Church of England in Borrowash, Derbyshire.

    1.8 km · church in Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St. Werburgh's Church, Spondon

    St. Werburgh's Church, Spondon, is a parish church in the Inclusive Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England located in Spondon, Derbyshire.

    3.5 km · grade II listed church in Derby, Derbyshire, England,UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Silver Ghost

    The Silver Ghost is a pub in Field Drive, Alvaston, Derby, England, that has been declared an asset of community value in order to prevent it from closure. The pub is modern and named after the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost car that was made in Derby.

    2.9 km · public house in Field Drive, Alvaston, Derby, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Aston Hall, Aston-on-Trent

    Aston Hall is an 18th-century country house, now converted to residential apartments, at Aston-on-Trent, Derbyshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.5 km · building in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St Mary

    Boulton St Mary's is the Church of England parish church for the Boulton ward of Derby. It is located on Boulton Lane, Alvaston, Derby, Derbyshire, England.

    2.8 km · church in Boulton, Derby, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Borrowash Methodist Church

    Borrowash Methodist Church is in Borrowash. Derbyshire, England.

    1.9 km · church in United Kingdom · 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.

Go there

Getting to Elvaston, Derbyshire

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 8 km · Birmingham (BHX), 54 km · Manchester (MAN), 78 km
Stations
Spondon railway station, 2.9 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Elvaston, Derbyshire
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £7–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Elvaston, Derbyshire
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £12–16
  • Liverpool → Elvaston, Derbyshire
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Elvaston, Derbyshire

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 Elvaston, Derbyshire. 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

    245 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    294 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    385 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    421 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    427 km

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

Around it

Next door to Elvaston, Derbyshire

Elvaston, Derbyshire is 17 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.