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New Whittington

New Whittington is a village located in the Borough of Chesterfield, in Derbyshire, England, near to Whittington Moor and Old Whittington.

New Whittington
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The place

New Whittington is a village located in the Borough of Chesterfield, in Derbyshire, England, near to Whittington Moor and Old Whittington. It is also to the west of Barrow Hill and Staveley. In 2011 the Barrow Hill and New Whittington ward had a population of 5,903.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around New Whittington

2 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
    Proact Stadium

    SMH Group Stadium is an all-seater football stadium in Whittington Moor, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, on the site of the former Dema Glassworks. It is the home of Chesterfield Football Club, replacing Saltergate as the club's stadium from the start of the 2010–11 season.

    2.8 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tapton House

    Tapton House, in Tapton, Derbyshire, England, was once the home of engineer George Stephenson, who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives. Tapton has been a gentleman's residence, a ladies' boarding school and a co-educational school.

    3.4 km · country house in 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.

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Getting to New Whittington

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 50 km · Manchester (MAN), 59 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 68 km
Stations
Coal Aston Airfield, 3.7 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → New Whittington
    40 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · £4.5–6
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → New Whittington
    60 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £7–9
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → New Whittington
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £7–10
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for New Whittington

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextFor a day trip by public transport, the most accessible is along the Hope Valley railway line through Grindleford, Hathersage, Hope and Edale.

From Wikivoyage: Sheffield, 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

    288 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    322 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    352 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    386 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    413 km

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

Around it

Next door to New Whittington

New Whittington is 13 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Staveleytown in Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Unstonevillage and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, England2.3 km
  • Brimingtonvillage and civil parish in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England2.2 km
  • Barrow Hillvillage in Derbyshire, UK1.9 km
  • Taptonvillage in Derbyshire, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Newboldvillage in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom3.7 km