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Kniveton

Kniveton is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England.

Kniveton
Kniveton · Eamon Curry
The place

Kniveton is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England. It is in the Peak District, 3 miles (4.8 km) north east of Ashbourne and 6 miles (9.7 km) south west of Wirksworth. It is close to the reservoir at Carsington Water.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kniveton

8 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
    Tissington Hall

    Tissington Hall is an early 17th-century Jacobean mansion house in Tissington, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.9 km · Grade II* listed house in Tissington, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Woodeaves 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.

    1.8 km · privately owned canal near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    All Saints' Church, Bradbourne

    All Saints' Church, Bradbourne is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Bradbourne, Derbyshire.

    2.6 km · church in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bradbourne Hall

    Bradbourne Hall is a country house near All Saint's Church, within the civil parish of Bradbourne, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire. It is a privately owned Grade II* listed building, and is not open to the public.

    2.6 km · country house in Bradbourne, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St 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.

    400 m · Grade I listed church in Kniveton, Derbyshire Dales, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church 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.

    3.3 km · Grade II listed church in Fenny Bentley, Derbyshire Dales, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Mary's Church, Tissington

    St Mary’s Church, Tissington is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Tissington, Derbyshire.

    3.8 km · church in Tissington, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Ashbourne 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.

    4 km · manor house in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England · 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 Kniveton

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 34 km · Manchester (MAN), 52 km · Birmingham (BHX), 66 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Kniveton
    60 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £7–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Kniveton
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–12
  • Liverpool → Kniveton
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £12–17
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kniveton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inRailway stations at for the town or (1.5 miles S) for the scenic Derwent gorge area, the Heights of Abraham attraction, caves and cable car service.

From Wikivoyage: Matlock, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    264 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    291 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    359 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    395 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    420 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kniveton

Kniveton is 38 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ashbournetown and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England3.9 km
  • Derbyshire Daleslocal government district in Derbyshire, England600 m
  • Bradbournevillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England2.6 km
  • Hognastonvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England2.9 km
  • Atlowvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England2.6 km
  • Fenny Bentleyvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England2.9 km