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Wessington

Wessington is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire.

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The place

Wessington is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 576. It is in the North East Derbyshire district of the county. It is near to the towns of Matlock, Alfreton and the village of Brackenfield. Situated 740 ft above sea level.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wessington

9 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
    National Tramway Museum

    The National Tramway Museum is a transport museum located in the village and civil parish of Crich, in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England. The museum's collection of trams is officially designated as being of national importance and encompasses the 1860s to the present day.

    4 km · United Kingdom national museum of tramways · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wingfield Manor

    Wingfield Manor is a Grade I listed ruined manor house left deserted since the 1770s, near the village of South Wingfield and some four miles west of the town of Alfreton in the English county of Derbyshire. There is a working farm that forms part of the old manor.

    3.1 km · ruined manor house in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Mary

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

    3.9 km · church in Crich, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    All Saints' Church, South Wingfield

    All Saints’ Church, South Wingfield is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in South Wingfield, Derbyshire.

    2.4 km · church in South Wingfield, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Crich Stand

    Crich Stand is a memorial tower, originally erected in 1923 to the memory of the 11,409 members of the Sherwood Foresters Regiment who died in the First World War. Further dedications extend this to members of the regiment who perished during the Second World War and up until 1970, and to those who died serving in the successor regiments; the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment from 1970 to 2007 and the Mercian Regiment since 2007.

    3.6 km · Memorial tower in Crich, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Leonard's Church

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

    3 km · church in Shirland, North East Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Ashover Hay Primitive Methodist Chapel

    Milltown Methodist Church is a now-closed, listed Methodist chapel in the village of Milltown, Derbyshire. The chapel was founded by Hugh Bourne who formed a society in the district.

    3.5 km · Grade II listed Methodist chapel in the parish of Ashover, North East Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Ogston Hall

    Ogston Hall is a privately owned 18th-century country house situated at Brackenfield, near Alfreton, Derbyshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2 km · country house in Brackenfield, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Ogston Reservoir

    Ogston Reservoir is a reservoir operated by Severn Trent Water in Derbyshire. It is near the villages of Brackenfield and Ashover and the town of Clay Cross.

    2.5 km · reservoir in the 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.

Go there

Getting to Wessington

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 33 km · Manchester (MAN), 61 km · Birmingham (BHX), 76 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wessington
    66 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £8–11
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Wessington
    77 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £9–12
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Wessington
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wessington

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 Wessington. 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

    270 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    308 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    363 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    398 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    425 km

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

Around it

Next door to Wessington

Wessington is 27 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • South Wingfieldvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England2.4 km
  • Brackenfieldvillage and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, England1.3 km
  • Shirlandvillage in Derbyshire, England, UK2.4 km
  • Oakerthorpevillage in Derbyshire, England3.5 km
  • Shirland and Highamcivil parish in North East Derbyshire, Derbyshire, England2.3 km
  • Woolley Moorhamlet in Derbyshire, United Kingdom3.6 km