Whaley Bridge
Worth seeing in and around Whaley Bridge
8 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.
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- 03The Bow Stones Anglian cross shafts
Scheduled monument in the parish of Lyme Handley, Cheshire, England, UK
3.9 km · Wikipedia - 04Railway Bridge
Grade II listed railway bridge in Whaley Bridge, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK
400 m · Wikipedia - 05Church of St James
Church building in Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK
1.1 km · Wikipedia - 06
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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.
Getting to Whaley Bridge
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 20 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 58 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 63 km
- Stations
- Chinley railway station, 2.8 km · Whaley Bridge railway station, 200 m · New Mills Newtown railway station, 3.7 km · Furness Vale railway station, 2.1 km
- Liverpool → Whaley Bridge67 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £7–10
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Whaley Bridge59 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Whaley Bridge70 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £8–10
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Whaley 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 Whaley Bridge. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextAfter taking in the splendid scenery and trekking to your heart's content, either camping out overnight or staying in Buxton, you might want to continue on to Sheffield, another post-industrial Northern city with more to offer than that description suggests.
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Next door to Whaley Bridge
Whaley Bridge is 24 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Furness Valevillage in Derbyshire, England2.1 km
- Newtownsuburb of New Mills, Derbyshire, England, UK3.7 km
- Tunstead Miltonvillage in Derbyshire, UK2.6 km
- Chinley, Buxworth and Brownsidecivil parish in High Peak, Derbyshire, England4 km
- Buxworthvillage in Derbyshire, UK1.1 km
- Shallcrossvillage in Derbyshire, United Kingdom1.7 km