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Padfield

Padfield is a small village near Hadfield in High Peak, Derbyshire, England.

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The place

Padfield is a small village near Hadfield in High Peak, Derbyshire, England. The village is on the west side of the Peak District National Park, and the nearest town is Glossop, where many local amenities and services are based. It is in a conservation area. The population as of the 2011 census was 2,796.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Padfield

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
    Ardotalia

    Ardotalia, also known as Melandra or Melandra Castle, is a Roman fort in Gamesley, near Glossop in Derbyshire, England. Ardotalia was constructed by Cohors Primae Frisiavonum—The First Cohort of Frisiavones.

    2.4 km · Roman fort in Gamesley, near Glossop in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mouselow Castle

    Glossop Castle is a Norman earthwork north of Glossop, off Hilltop Road, 14 miles east of Manchester, on the A57. The site is visible from the main road, standing atop a commanding ridge.

    600 m · ringwork castle near Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bottoms Reservoir

    Bottoms Reservoir is a man-made lake in Longdendale in north Derbyshire, England. It was constructed between 1865 and 1877, by John Frederick Bateman as part of the Longdendale Chain of reservoirs to supply water from the River Etherow to the urban areas of Greater Manchester.

    1 km · reservoir in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Rhodeswood Reservoir

    Rhodeswood Reservoir is a man-made lake in Longdendale in north Derbyshire, England. It was constructed by John Frederick Bateman between 1849 and June 1855 as part of the Longdendale Chain of reservoirs to supply water from the River Etherow to the urban areas of Greater Manchester.

    2.8 km · reservoir in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Valehouse Reservoir

    Valehouse Reservoir is a man-made lake in Longdendale in north Derbyshire, England. It was built between 1865 and 1869 as part of the Longdendale Chain of reservoirs, which was built to supply water from the River Etherow to the urban areas of Greater Manchester, while maintaining a constant flow into the river.

    1.8 km · reservoir in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St James' Church, Glossop

    St. James's Church is an Anglican church in the evangelical tradition in the town of Glossop, Derbyshire, in the north-west of England.

    2.5 km · Grade II listed church in Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Arnfield Reservoir

    Arnfield Reservoir is a man-made lake in Longdendale in north Derbyshire, England. It was constructed in 1854 as part of the Longdendale chain to supply water from the River Etherow to the urban areas of Greater Manchester.

    2.2 km · reservoir in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Michael and All Angels Church, Mottram

    St Michael and All Angels Church stands on Warhill overlooking the village of Mottram in Longdendale, Greater Manchester, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

    3.7 km · church in Mottram in Longdendale, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of All Saints

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

    1.6 km · Grade II listed church building in Old Glossop, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Manor Park, Glossop

    Manor Park is a city park in Glossop, Derbyshire, England.

    1.8 km · English public park · 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 Padfield

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 25 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 49 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 61 km
Stations
Hadfield railway station, 700 m · Glossop railway station, 1.9 km · Dinting railway station, 1.7 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Padfield
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £5–7
  • Liverpool → Padfield
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £8–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Padfield
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Padfield

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

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    312 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    312 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    314 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    347 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    374 km

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

Around it

Next door to Padfield

Padfield is 19 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Glossoptown and unparished area in High Peak district of Derbyshire, England2 km
  • Tintwistlevillage and civil parish in Derbyshire, England1.7 km
  • Hadfieldtown in Derbyshire, England1 km
  • Mottram in Longdendalevillage in Tameside, Greater Manchester, UK3.8 km
  • Hollingworthvillage in Greater Manchester, England, UK2.4 km
  • Woolley Bridgevillage in Derbyshire, England, UK2.2 km