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Heanor

Heanor (/ˈhiːnə/) is a town in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England.

Heanor
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The place

Heanor (/ˈhiːnə/) is a town in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England. It lies 8 miles (13 km) north-east of Derby and forms, with the adjacent village of Loscoe, the civil parish and town council-administered area of Heanor and Loscoe, which had a population of 17,251 in the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Heanor

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
    Codnor Castle

    Codnor Castle is a ruined 13th-century castle in Derbyshire, England. The land around Codnor came under the jurisdiction of William Peverel after the Norman Conquest.

    3.5 km · ruins of a castle in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bennerley Viaduct

    Bennerley Viaduct is a former railway bridge, now a foot and cycle bridge, between Ilkeston, Derbyshire, and Awsworth, Nottinghamshire, in central England. It was completed in 1877 and carried the Great Northern Railway's Derbyshire Extension over the River Erewash, which forms the county boundary, and its wide, flat valley.

    4.6 km · railway viaduct spanning the Erewash Valley · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary the Virgin's Church, Denby is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Denby, Derbyshire.

    3.6 km · church in Denby, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Christ Church

    Christ Church, Ironville is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Ironville, Derbyshire.

    5.4 km · church building in Ironville, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    All Saints' Church, Ripley

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

    5.4 km · grade II listed church in Ripley, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Wilfrid

    St Wilfrid's Church is a Church of England parish church in West Hallam, Derbyshire. St Wilfrid's Church is a Grade II* listed building.

    5.4 km · church in West Hallam, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Shipley Hall

    Shipley Hall was a country estate in Shipley, Derbyshire near Heanor and Ilkeston which now forms a Country Park.

    2.3 km · country house in Derbyshire, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Ye Olde Cinder House

    Ye Olde Cinder House is a house on Station Road in West Hallam, Derbyshire, and is made of cinder, a type of igneous rock similar to pumice. It has been a Grade II listed building since 1986.

    5 km · house in West Hallam, Erewash, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Underwood

    The Church of St Michael and All Angels, Underwood is a parish church in the Church of England in Underwood, Nottinghamshire. The church is Grade II listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as it is a building of special architectural or historic interest.

    5.8 km · grade II listed church in Selston, Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    D.H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum

    The D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum preserves the writer's home of D. H. Lawrence in Eastwood, near Nottingham. It is one of the four houses the family occupied in Eastwood.

    3.2 km · museum in Nottingham, England, 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 Heanor

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 20 km · Birmingham (BHX), 68 km · Manchester (MAN), 72 km
Stations
Langley Mill railway station, 1.6 km · Awsworth railway station, 5 km · Codnor Park and Selston railway station, 5.1 km · Ilkeston railway station, 5.5 km · Codnor Park and Ironville railway station, 4.7 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Heanor
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–11
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Heanor
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £9–12
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Heanor
    88 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Heanor

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 Heanor. 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

    259 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    305 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    376 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    411 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    423 km

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

Around it

Next door to Heanor

Heanor is 15 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ashfielddistrict in Nottinghamshire, England, UK5.4 km
  • Ripleytown and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England3.8 km
  • Eastwoodtown in Nottinghamshire, England3.2 km
  • Amber Valleylocal government district with borough status in Derbyshire, England3.4 km
  • Ilkestontown and unparished area within the Borough of Erewash, in Derbyshire, England5.6 km
  • West Hallamvillage in Erewash district, Derbyshire, England4.9 km