Furness Vale

Worth seeing in and around Furness Vale

9 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
   Taxal

   Whaley Bridge is a town and civil parish in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England. It is situated on the River Goyt, 16 miles south-east of Manchester, 7 miles north of Buxton, 9 miles north-east of Macclesfield and 28 miles west of Sheffield.

   3.7 km · village in Whaley Bridge, High Peak, Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Toddbrook Reservoir

   Toddbrook Reservoir, a feeder for the Peak Forest Canal, opened in 1838. It is above the town of Whaley Bridge in the High Peak area of Derbyshire, England.

   2.7 km · reservoir in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   New Mills Town Hall

   New Mills Town Hall is a municipal building on Spring Bank, New Mills, Derbyshire, England. Constructed of local gritstone, it was opened in 1871 as a public hall for the Mechanics Institute, and became a town hall in 1895 upon the creation of New Mills Urban District Council, which used it as administrative headquarters until its 1974 abolition.

   2.3 km · town hall in Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Bollinhurst Reservoir

   The Bollinhurst Reservoir was constructed in Lyme Park in 1872 for the Stockport District Waterworks Company. At the time of the First World War, it had a capacity of 84.46 million gallons.

   3.2 km · reservoir in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Railway Bridge

   Buxton Road Bridge is a railway bridge over the A5004 road in Whaley Bridge, in the High Peak district, in the county of Derbyshire, England. It carries the Buxton line.

   2.4 km · Grade II listed railway bridge in Whaley Bridge, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Church of St James

   St. James' Church, Buxworth is a 19th-century Church of England church in the village of Buxworth, Derbyshire.

   2 km · church building in Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   St Mary's Church, Disley

   St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Chadkirk. It is on a hill overlooking the village of Disley, Cheshire, England.

   3.4 km · church in Disley, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Bugsworth Basin

   Bugsworth Basin is a canal basin at the terminus of the Peak Forest Canal at Buxworth in the valley of the Black Brook, close to Whaley Bridge. It was once a busy interchange with the Peak Forest Tramway, for the transport of limestone and burnt lime.

   2.1 km · canal basin in the UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Eccles Pike

   Eccles Pike is an isolated hill three miles west of Chapel en le Frith in the Derbyshire Peak District, England. It consists of gritstone, pink in colour at the summit.

   3.6 km · hill in Derbyshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Furness Vale

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 19 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 57 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 61 km

Stations

Chinley railway station, 3.2 km · Disley railway station, 3.6 km · New Mills Central railway station, 2.1 km · Whaley Bridge railway station, 2.1 km · New Mills Newtown railway station, 1.8 km

• Liverpool → Furness Vale

  66 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £7–9
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• Leeds, West Yorkshire → Furness Vale

  58 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £8–11
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Furness Vale

  71 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £8–10
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