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Worth seeing in and around Ilkeston

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
    Bennerley Viaduct

    Railway viaduct spanning the Erewash Valley

    2.3 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Nottingham Canal

    Canal in the East Midlands, United Kingdom

    2.7 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of All Saints

    Anglican church in Kirk Hallam, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK

    1.3 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Helen's Church, Trowell

    Parish church in the Church of England in Trowell, Nottinghamshire, England, UK

    2.7 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St. Luke's Church, Stapleford

    Church in United Kingdom

    4 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Shipley Hall

    Country house in Derbyshire, UK

    3.7 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Ye Olde Cinder House

    House in West Hallam, Erewash, Derbyshire, England, UK

    4 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Catherine's Church, Cossall

    Church in Cossall, Nottinghamshire, England, UK

    2 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St Mary

    Church in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK

    100 m · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of St Michael and All Angels

    Historic church in Stanton by Dale, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom

    3.5 km · 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.

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Getting to Ilkeston

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 16 km · Birmingham (BHX), 65 km · Manchester (MAN), 77 km
Stations
Awsworth railway station, 2.9 km · Ilkeston railway station, 1.4 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Ilkeston
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £7–10
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ilkeston
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £10–14
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Ilkeston
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ilkeston

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 Ilkeston. 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

    254 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    304 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    382 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    417 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    421 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ilkeston

Ilkeston is 11 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Broxtowenon-metropolitan district in Nottinghamshire, UK3.5 km
  • West Hallamvillage in Erewash district, Derbyshire, England3.4 km
  • Stanton-by-Dalevillage and civil parish in Erewash District, Derbyshire, England3.4 km
  • Shipleyvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England3.6 km
  • Trowellvillage and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England, UK3 km
  • Awsworthvillage and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, UK3 km