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Gamesley

Gamesley is a residential area within the Borough of High Peak

Gamesley
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The place

Gamesley is a residential area within the Borough of High Peak

in Derbyshire, England, west of Glossop and close to the River Etherow which forms the boundary with Tameside in Greater Manchester. Gamesley is a ward of the High Peak Borough Council. It had a population of 2,531 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gamesley

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
    Ardotalia

    Ardotalia, also known as Melandra or Melandra Castle, is a Roman fort in Gamesley, near Glossop in Derbyshire, England. Ardotalia was constructed by Cohors Primae Frisiavonum—The First Cohort of Frisiavones.

    500 m · Roman fort in Gamesley, near Glossop in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mouselow Castle

    Glossop Castle is a Norman earthwork north of Glossop, off Hilltop Road, 14 miles east of Manchester, on the A57. The site is visible from the main road, standing atop a commanding ridge.

    2 km · ringwork castle near Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bottoms Reservoir

    Bottoms Reservoir is a man-made lake in Longdendale in north Derbyshire, England. It was constructed between 1865 and 1877, by John Frederick Bateman as part of the Longdendale Chain of reservoirs to supply water from the River Etherow to the urban areas of Greater Manchester.

    2.8 km · reservoir in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St James' Church, Glossop

    St. James's Church is an Anglican church in the evangelical tradition in the town of Glossop, Derbyshire, in the north-west of England.

    2.4 km · Grade II listed church in Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Broadbottom Hall

    Broadbottom Hall is a Grade II* listed country house on Bostock Road in Broadbottom, a village within Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Cheshire, the hall dates from 1680, was extended in the 19th century, and is noted for its architectural and historic significance.

    1.8 km · Grade II* listed house in Broadbottom, Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Arnfield Reservoir

    Arnfield Reservoir is a man-made lake in Longdendale in north Derbyshire, England. It was constructed in 1854 as part of the Longdendale chain to supply water from the River Etherow to the urban areas of Greater Manchester.

    2.8 km · reservoir in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Manor Park, Glossop

    Manor Park is a city park in Glossop, Derbyshire, England.

    3 km · English public park · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints’ Church, Glossop, is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Glossop, Derbyshire, England.

    3.1 km · Grade II listed church building in Old Glossop, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Norfolk Square

    Norfolk Square is in the centre of Glossop in Derbyshire, England, a former mill town close to the Peak District. It forms part of the town centre, adjacent to the crossroads where the A57 road meets the A624.

    2.4 km · square in Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Howard Park

    Howard Park is a public park in Glossop, in Derbyshire, England. It was opened in 1888, and it is listed Grade II in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens.

    2.1 km · public park in Glossop, Derbyshire, 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.

Go there

Getting to Gamesley

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 22 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 51 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 59 km
Stations
Hattersley railway station, 3.6 km · Broadbottom railway station, 2.2 km · Hadfield railway station, 2 km · Glossop railway station, 2.5 km · Dinting railway station, 1.1 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Gamesley
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £7–10
  • Liverpool → Gamesley
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Gamesley
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gamesley

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    310 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    311 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    312 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    347 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    374 km

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

Around it

Next door to Gamesley

Gamesley is 17 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Glossoptown and unparished area in High Peak district of Derbyshire, England2.5 km
  • Tintwistlevillage and civil parish in Derbyshire, England2.8 km
  • Hadfieldtown in Derbyshire, England1.7 km
  • Charlesworthvillage and civil parish in High Peak, Derbyshire, England1.7 km
  • Chisworthvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire, England3.1 km
  • Hattersleyvillage and housing estate in Greater Manchester, England, UK2.8 km