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Rodsley

Rodsley is a small village and civil parish about 4 miles (6 km) south of Ashbourne in Derbyshire.

Rodsley
Rodsley · Eamon Curry
The place

Rodsley is a small village and civil parish about 4 miles (6 km) south of Ashbourne in Derbyshire. As the population of the village was less than 100 at the 2011 Census, details are included in the civil parish of Yeaveley.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rodsley

6 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
    Longford Hall

    Longford Hall is a 16th-century country house at Longford in the Dales district of Derbyshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.4 km · 16th-century country house at Longford in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Chad's Church, Longford

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

    2.4 km · Grade I listed building in Derbyshire Dales, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Martin

    St Martin's Church, Osmaston is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Osmaston, Derbyshire Dales.

    3.7 km · church in Osmaston, Derbyshire Dales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Holy Trinity Church

    Holy Trinity Church, Yeaveley is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Yeaveley, Derbyshire.

    1.6 km · church building in Yeaveley, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St James

    St James’ Church, Edlaston is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Edlaston, Derbyshire.

    3.2 km · church in Edlaston, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Michael

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

    2.1 km · church in Derbyshire Dales, 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.

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Getting to Rodsley

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 29 km · Birmingham (BHX), 56 km · Manchester (MAN), 58 km
Stations
Darley Moor Airfield, 3.6 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Rodsley
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £8–11
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Rodsley
    68 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £8–10
  • Liverpool → Rodsley
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rodsley

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAlso, you can use the cable car (Skyride) to get between the Park Entrance, Forbidden Valley which is an alien-themed area and Fountain Square, for The Towers, The World of David Walliams (one of the two children's areas of the park) and the Dark Forest.

From Wikivoyage: Alton Towers, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    254 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    284 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
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    428 km

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

Around it

Next door to Rodsley

Rodsley is 37 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Yeaveleyvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England1.6 km
  • Osmastonvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England3.3 km
  • Longfordvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England2.3 km
  • Alkmontonvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England3.9 km
  • Hollingtonvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England2.7 km
  • Shirleyvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England2 km