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Ockbrook

Ockbrook is a village in the Erewash district, in the county of Derbyshire, England.

Ockbrook
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The place

Ockbrook is a village in the Erewash district, in the county of Derbyshire, England. It is almost contiguous with the village of Borrowash, the two only separated by the A52. The civil parish is Ockbrook and Borrowash. The population of this civil parish at the 2011 Census was 7,335. Ockbrook lies about 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Derby.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ockbrook

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
    Elvaston Castle

    Elvaston Castle is a stately home in Elvaston, Derbyshire, England. The Gothic Revival castle and surrounding parkland is run and owned by Derbyshire County Council as a country park known as Elvaston Castle Country Park.

    3.4 km · country house in Elvaston, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Locko Park

    Locko Park is a privately owned 18th-century country house in between the villages of Stanley and Ockbrook in the borough of Erewash, near Spondon, Derbyshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building, and the park is Grade II listed in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens.

    2.6 km · country house in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Bartholomew, Elvaston

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

    3.4 km · church in Elvaston, South Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Stephen's Church, Borrowash

    St Stephen's Church, Borrowash is a parish church in the Church of England in Borrowash, Derbyshire.

    1.7 km · church in Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St. Werburgh's Church, Spondon

    St. Werburgh's Church, Spondon, is a parish church in the Inclusive Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England located in Spondon, Derbyshire.

    2.5 km · grade II listed church in Derby, Derbyshire, England,UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints' Church, Risley is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Risley, Derbyshire.

    3.8 km · church in Risley, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Latin House

    Latin House, Risley is a Grade II* listed building in Risley, Derbyshire.

    3.8 km · house in Risley, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    All Saints' Church, Ockbrook

    All Saints' Church, Ockbrook, is a parish church in the Church of England located in Ockbrook, Derbyshire.

    300 m · church in Ockbrook and Borrowash, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Risley Hall, Derbyshire

    Risley Hall is a country house used as a hotel set in 17 acres of private landscaped grounds in the Derbyshire countryside, near the village of Risley, England. It has 35 bedrooms, function rooms and caters for weddings, which take place in the 16th-century Great Hall.

    3.7 km · English country house in Risley, Erewash, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Borrowash Methodist Church

    Borrowash Methodist Church is in Borrowash. Derbyshire, England.

    1.6 km · church in 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 Ockbrook

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 10 km · Birmingham (BHX), 58 km · Manchester (MAN), 77 km
Stations
Spondon railway station, 2.7 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Ockbrook
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £7–10
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ockbrook
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £12–16
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Ockbrook
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ockbrook

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 Ockbrook. 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

    248 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    297 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    383 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    419 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    426 km

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Around it

Next door to Ockbrook

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

  • Erewashlocal government district with borough status in eastern Derbyshire, England3.8 km
  • Risleyvillage and civil parish in Erewash District, Derbyshire, England3.5 km
  • Elvastonvillage and civil parish in South Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England3.5 km
  • Borrowashvillage in Derbyshire, England, UK1.5 km
  • Dale Abbeyvillage and civil parish in Erewash district, Derbyshire, England3.1 km
  • Spondonsuburb of Derby, United Kingdom1.9 km