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Oakerthorpe

Oakerthorpe is a village in Derbyshire, England.

Oakerthorpe
Oakerthorpe · Gürkan Sengün
The place

Oakerthorpe is a village in Derbyshire, England.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Oakerthorpe

9 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
    Wingfield Manor

    Wingfield Manor is a Grade I listed ruined manor house left deserted since the 1770s, near the village of South Wingfield and some four miles west of the town of Alfreton in the English county of Derbyshire. There is a working farm that forms part of the old manor.

    1.5 km · ruined manor house in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Matthew

    St Matthew's Church is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Pentrich, Derbyshire.

    2.3 km · Grade I listed church in Pentrich, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Midland Railway – Butterley

    The Midland Railway – Butterley is a heritage railway and museum complex at Butterley, near Ripley, in Derbyshire, England.

    3.3 km · Heritage railway centre, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Leonard's Church

    St Leonard's Church, Shirland is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Shirland, Derbyshire.

    3.7 km · church in Shirland, North East Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Carnfield Hall

    Carnfield Hall is a privately owned country house located at South Normanton, near Alfreton in Derbyshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.8 km · country house in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    All Saints' Church, South Wingfield

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

    1.1 km · church in South Wingfield, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    War Memorial and Railings

    Alfreton War Memorial is a 20th century Grade II listed war memorial in the town and civil parish of Alfreton, in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England.

    2.1 km · war memorial in Alfreton, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Butterley railway station

    Butterley railway station is a preserved railway station on the Heritage Midland Railway - Butterley in Derbyshire.

    3.2 km · heritage station in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Butterley Reservoir

    Butterley Reservoir is a reservoir in Derbyshire, England. The reservoir was built to provide water for the Cromford Canal which opened for use in 1794.

    3.1 km · reservoir 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 Oakerthorpe

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 29 km · Manchester (MAN), 64 km · Birmingham (BHX), 74 km
Stations
Alfreton railway station, 3.5 km · Hammersmith railway station, 3.1 km · Swanwick Junction railway station, 3.8 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Oakerthorpe
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Oakerthorpe
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £9–11
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Oakerthorpe
    78 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Oakerthorpe

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 Oakerthorpe. 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

    267 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    307 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    367 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    402 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    427 km

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

Around it

Next door to Oakerthorpe

Oakerthorpe is 24 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Alfretontown and civil parish in Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England2.7 km
  • Swanwickvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England, UK2.2 km
  • Wessingtonvillage and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, England3.5 km
  • South Wingfieldvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England1.5 km
  • Pentrichvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England2.2 km
  • Somercotesvillage and civil parish in the district of Amber Valley in Derbyshire, England3.7 km