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Stanton by Bridge

Stanton by Bridge is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire.

Stanton by Bridge
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The place

Stanton by Bridge is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 246.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stanton by Bridge

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
    Melbourne

    Melbourne is a market town and civil parish in South Derbyshire, England. It was home to Thomas Cook, founder of the eponymous travel agency, and has a street named after him.

    2.5 km · market town and civil parish in South Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Heath Wood barrow cemetery

    Heath Wood barrow cemetery is a Viking burial site near Ingleby, Derbyshire.

    3.4 km · Viking burial site near Ingleby, Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Melbourne Castle

    Melbourne Castle was a medieval castle in Melbourne, Derbyshire. It was built on the site of an earlier royal manor house that had provided accommodation for noblemen hunting in a nearby royal park in the reign of King John.

    2.7 km · limited remains of a castle in Melbourne, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Melbourne Hall

    Melbourne Hall is a Georgian country house in Melbourne, Derbyshire, previously owned by the 2nd Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister from 1835 to 1841. The house is now owned by the 14th Marquess of Lothian and is open to the public.

    2.9 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in South Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Michael and St Mary

    St Michael and St Mary's Church, Melbourne is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Melbourne, Derbyshire.

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

    St Michael's Church, Stanton by Bridge is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Stanton by Bridge, Derbyshire.

    600 m · Grade I listed church in Stanton by Bridge, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Wilfrid

    St Wilfrid’s Church, Barrow upon Trent is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Barrow upon Trent, Derbyshire.

    2.3 km · Grade I listed church in Barrow upon Trent, South Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St George's Church, Ticknall

    St George's Church, Ticknall is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Ticknall, Derbyshire.

    3.9 km · grade II listed building in Ticknall, South Derbyshire, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Staunton Harold Reservoir

    Staunton Harold Reservoir is a large reservoir under the management of Severn Trent Water, located between Melbourne and Ticknall in Derbyshire, England. Most of the water is within Derbyshire but a small part of the southern shore is over the border in Leicestershire.

    3.5 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Swarkestone Bridge

    Swarkestone Bridge is a medieval bridge crossing the River Trent between the villages of Swarkestone and Stanton by Bridge, about 6 miles south of Derby. It is currently Grade I Listed and a scheduled monument.

    1.3 km · Grade I listed bridge in Swarkestone, Derbyshire, England · 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 Stanton by Bridge

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 8 km · Birmingham (BHX), 48 km · Manchester (MAN), 79 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Stanton by Bridge
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £6–7
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Stanton by Bridge
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £12–16
  • Liverpool → Stanton by Bridge
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stanton by Bridge

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe airport mainly supports low-cost airlines such as Jet2.com, Ryanair and tour operators like Thomson Airways which serve a range of domestic and European short-haul destinations.

From Wikivoyage: Castle Donington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    240 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    288 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    387 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    423 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    432 km

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

Around it

Next door to Stanton by Bridge

Stanton by Bridge is 23 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Weston-on-Trentvillage in South Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England3.2 km
  • Barrow upon Trentvillage and civil parish in South Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England2.3 km
  • Swarkestonevillage and civil parish in South Derbyshire District, Derbyshire, England1.2 km
  • Inglebyvillage and civil parish in South Derbyshire, Derbyshire, England2.4 km
  • Chellastonvillage in Derbyshire, United Kingdom2.9 km
  • Kings Newtonvillage in Derbyshire, England, UK2 km