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Rowsley

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

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The place

Rowsley is a village on the A6 road in the English county of Derbyshire. The population as at the 2011 census was 507.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Church 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
  2. 02
    Holy 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
  3. 03
    Parish 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
  4. 04
    Beeley 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
  5. 05
    Chapel 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
  6. 06
    Reform 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
  7. 07
    Stanton 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

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 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 → Rowsley
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £4.5–6
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Rowsley
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £6–8
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Rowsley
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £8–10
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    279 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    306 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    350 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    385 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    411 km

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

Around it

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