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Pilsley

Pilsley is a small village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England.

Pilsley
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The place

Pilsley is a small village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England. At the 2011 Census the population of the civil parish was 152. It is close to Chatsworth and most of it belongs to the Chatsworth House estate.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pilsley

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
    Chatsworth House

    Chatsworth House is a stately home in the Derbyshire Dales, 4 miles north-east of Bakewell and 9 miles west of Chesterfield, England. The seat of the Duke of Devonshire, it has belonged to the Cavendish family since 1549.

    2.2 km · country house in Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bakewell Bridge

    Bakewell Bridge is a Grade I listed stone arch bridge spanning the River Wye in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The bridge is also a scheduled monument.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed bridge in Bakewell, Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bakewell Castle

    Bakewell Castle was in the town of Bakewell, Derbyshire. It was a motte and bailey castle.

    2.9 km · motte-and-bailey castle in Bakewell, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Peter, Edensor

    St Peter's Church, Edensor, is a Grade I listed Anglican church in Edensor, Derbyshire. St Peter's is the closest parish church in the Church of England to Chatsworth House, home of the Dukes of Devonshire, most of whom are buried in the churchyard.

    1.4 km · Grade I listed church in Derbyshire Dales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of All Saints, Hassop

    The Church of All Saints is a Roman Catholic parish church in Hassop, Derbyshire. Built in 1816–17, the architect was Joseph Ireland.

    2.2 km · Catholic church in Hassop, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Hassop Hall

    Hassop Hall is a 17th-century country house near Bakewell, Derbyshire, which was operated as a hotel until it closed on 29 September 2019. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.3 km · country house in Hassop, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Bakewell Old House Museum

    The Bakewell Old House Museum in the town of Bakewell in Derbyshire is a typical 16th-century yeoman's house that now houses a museum. It tells the story of the house as well as the lives of people from Bakewell and this part of the Peak District.

    3.5 km · Grade II* listed building and museum in Bakewell, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    All Saints Church, Bakewell

    All Saints' Church, Bakewell, is the parish church of Bakewell, Derbyshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed church in Bakewell, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Lumford Mill

    Lumford Mill was a historic cotton mill at Bakewell in Derbyshire, England. In 1777, Richard Arkwright leased a stretch of land by the River Wye from Philip Gell of Hopton.

    3.5 km · mill building in Hassop, Derbyshire Dales, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Baslow Hall

    Baslow Hall is a Grade II listed building in Baslow, Derbyshire.

    2.2 km · Grade II listed house, now hotel, in Baslow, 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.

Go there

Getting to Pilsley

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 44 km · East Midlands (EMA), 50 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 70 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Pilsley
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £8–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Pilsley
    26 km · quickest by road, 47 min · £3–4
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Pilsley
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £8–11
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pilsley

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 Pilsley. 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

    284 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    308 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    345 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    380 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    406 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pilsley

Pilsley is 20 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bakewelltown and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England3.5 km
  • Calvervillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England3.6 km
  • Edensorvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England1.4 km
  • Curbarvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England3.8 km
  • Hassopvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England2.2 km
  • Rowlandvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire, United Kingdom3.1 km