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Swadlincote

Swadlincote is a historic mining town in the district of South Derbyshire, in the county of Derbyshire, England.

Swadlincote
Swadlincote · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Swadlincote is a historic mining town in the district of South Derbyshire, in the county of Derbyshire, England. It lies within The National Forest area. It borders the counties of Leicestershire and Staffordshire, 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Burton upon Trent and north-west of Ashby-de-la-Zouch and 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Derby. It covers the suburban areas of Church Gresley, Goseley, Midway, Newhall, Oversetts and Woodville and had a population of 34,576 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Swadlincote

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 17 km · Birmingham (BHX), 38 km · Manchester (MAN), 80 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Swadlincote
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £12–16
  • Liverpool → Swadlincote
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £14–18
  • London → Swadlincote
    171 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £17–23
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No local-transport research exists yet for Swadlincote

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    233 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    277 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    389 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    425 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    441 km

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Next door to Swadlincote

Swadlincote is 32 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.