Fenny Bentley
Fenny Bentley is a small village and civil parish located close to Dovedale in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England.
Fenny Bentley is a small village and civil parish located close to Dovedale in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. The population in 2009 was 305 reducing to 183 at the 2011 Census. It lies two miles north of Ashbourne, on the A515 Buxton to Ashbourne Road. It is one of the most southerly villages in the Peak District.
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Worth seeing in and around Fenny Bentley
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.
- 01Okeover Hall
Okeover Hall is a privately owned Grade II* listed country house in Okeover, Staffordshire, England. It is the family seat of the Okeover family, who have been in residence since the reign of William Rufus (d.
2.9 km · Grade II* listed country house in Staffordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Tissington Hall
Tissington Hall is an early 17th-century Jacobean mansion house in Tissington, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.
2.3 km · Grade II* listed house in Tissington, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church 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.
400 m · Grade II listed church in Fenny Bentley, Derbyshire Dales, UK · Wikipedia - 04The Town Hall
Ashbourne Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Ashbourne Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.
3.3 km · building in Ashbourne, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Woodeaves 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.
1.3 km · privately owned canal near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia - 06Ashbourne 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.
3.2 km · manor house in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia - 07Thorpe Cloud
Thorpe Cloud is an isolated limestone hill lying between the villages of Thorpe and Ilam on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border at the southern end of Dovedale. The name "cloud" derives from the Old English word clud which means "hill".
2.9 km · hill in the parish of Thorpe, Derbyshire, UK · Wikipedia - 08St 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.
3.1 km · Grade I listed church in Kniveton, Derbyshire Dales, UK · Wikipedia - 09The Green Man And Black's Head Hotel, Attached Inn Sign Bridging Road
The Green Man & Black's Head Royal Hotel is a public house and hotel on St John Street in the town centre of Ashbourne, Derbyshire. The premises is known for its Grade II* listed entrance sign and its association with Royal Shrovetide Football.
3.4 km · hotel and public house in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10St Mary's Church, Tissington
St Mary’s Church, Tissington is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Tissington, Derbyshire.
2.2 km · church in Tissington, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Fenny Bentley
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 36 km · Manchester (MAN), 49 km · Birmingham (BHX), 66 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Fenny Bentley58 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £7–9
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Fenny Bentley64 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
- Liverpool → Fenny Bentley92 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £12–16
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No local-transport research exists yet for Fenny Bentley
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 Fenny Bentley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Fenny Bentley
Fenny Bentley is 40 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ashbournetown and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England3.7 km
- Derbyshire Daleslocal government district in Derbyshire, England2.3 km
- Knivetonvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England2.9 km
- Thorpevillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England2.2 km
- Mapletonvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England2.5 km
- Okeoverhamlet and civil parish in East Staffordshire, Staffordshire, England2.9 km