Rowsley
Rowsley is a village on the A6 road in the English county of Derbyshire.

Rowsley is a village on the A6 road in the English county of Derbyshire. The population as at the 2011 census was 507.
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Worth seeing in and around Rowsley
7 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.
- 01Church of St Katherine
St Katherine's Church, Rowsley is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Rowsley, Derbyshire.
400 m · church building in Rowsley, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Holy Trinity Church, Stanton-in-Peak
Holy Trinity Church, Stanton-in-Peak is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Stanton in Peak, Derbyshire.
2.4 km · grade II listed building in Stanton, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Parish Church of St Helen
St Helen's Church, Darley Dale is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Darley Dale, Derbyshire.
3.1 km · church in Darley Dale, Derbyshire Dales, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Beeley Moor
Beeley Moor is a small gritstone upland area in the Derbyshire Peak District of central and northern England, near the villages of Beeley and Baslow. Its highest point is 371 metres above sea level.
3.9 km · hill in the Peak District of England · Wikipedia - 05Chapel of St Nicholas, Haddon Hall
The Chapel St John Nicholas, Haddon Hall is a Grade I listed Church of England chapel in Haddon Hall, Derbyshire. The chapel's origins are Norman, with later medieval additions.
2.4 km · church in Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia - 06Reform Tower
The Reform Tower, also known as the Earl Grey Tower in Stanton Moor, Derbyshire, is a monument to the 1832 Reform Act. It was built around 1833 by the Thornhill family to commemorate Earl Grey, the Whig Prime Minister who supported the 'Act to amend the representation of the people in England and Wales'.
2.7 km · building in Stanton, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Stanton Hall
Stanton Hall is a privately owned country house at Stanton in Peak in the Derbyshire Peak District, the home of the Davie-Thornhill family. It is a Grade II* listed building.
2.5 km · country house in Stanton in Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rowsley
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 44 km · Manchester (MAN), 48 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 75 km
- Stations
- Darley Dale railway station, 3.6 km · Rowsley South railway station, 1.7 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Rowsley41 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £4.5–6
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Rowsley52 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £6–8
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Rowsley68 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £8–10
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Rowsley
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 Rowsley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Rowsley
Rowsley is 24 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Darley Daletown and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England2.9 km
- Beeleyvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England1.6 km
- Nether Haddoncivil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England2.5 km
- Stanton in Peakvillage in Derbyshire, UK3.5 km
- Northwood and Tinkersleycivil parish in Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England1.6 km
- Alporthamlet in Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England4 km