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West Hallam

West Hallam is a large village and civil parish west of Ilkeston in the county of Derbyshire in the East Midlands region of England.

The place

West Hallam is a large village and civil parish west of Ilkeston in the county of Derbyshire in the East Midlands region of England. West Hallam has had its own parish council since 1894 and, since 1974, has been part of the Erewash borough. The population of the civil parish was 4,829 at the 2001 census reducing to 4,686 at the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around West Hallam

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 All Saints

    All Saints’ Church, Kirk Hallam is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire.

    3 km · Anglican church in Kirk Hallam, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church, Ilkeston is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Built in the 14th century, it is known as the "Mollis Chapel" because of a stained glass window which shows the rising sun above the cross which was fixed to it by the local saint.

    3.5 km · church in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Erewash Museum

    The Erewash Museum is located in Ilkeston, Erewash, in Derbyshire, England. Housed in Dalby House, a building that once served as a school and private home.

    3.5 km · museum in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ilkeston Town Hall

    Ilkeston Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. The town hall, which currently serves as one of two meeting places of Erewash Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.4 km · town hall in Erewash, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Wilfrid

    St Wilfrid's Church is a Church of England parish church in West Hallam, Derbyshire. St Wilfrid's Church is a Grade II* listed building.

    500 m · church in West Hallam, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Shipley Hall

    Shipley Hall was a country estate in Shipley, Derbyshire near Heanor and Ilkeston which now forms a Country Park.

    2.7 km · country house in Derbyshire, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Ye Olde Cinder House

    Ye Olde Cinder House is a house on Station Road in West Hallam, Derbyshire, and is made of cinder, a type of igneous rock similar to pumice. It has been a Grade II listed building since 1986.

    600 m · house in West Hallam, Erewash, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to West Hallam

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 16 km · Birmingham (BHX), 63 km · Manchester (MAN), 74 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → West Hallam
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £8–10
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → West Hallam
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £10–14
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → West Hallam
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £11–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for West Hallam

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 West Hallam. 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

    254 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    301 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    380 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    415 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    424 km

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Around it

Next door to West Hallam

West Hallam is 14 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ilkestontown and unparished area within the Borough of Erewash, in Derbyshire, England3.4 km
  • Shipleyvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England3.8 km
  • Dale Abbeyvillage and civil parish in Erewash district, Derbyshire, England2.8 km
  • Morleyvillage and civil parish in Erewash district, Derbyshire, England3.5 km
  • Mapperleyvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England1.4 km
  • Smalleyvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England3.9 km