Windley
Windley is a small village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, around 6 miles (10 km) north of Derby, adjacent to the B5023 Duffield to Wirksworth road.
Windley is a small village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, around 6 miles (10 km) north of Derby, adjacent to the B5023 Duffield to Wirksworth road. The civil parish population as taken at the 2011 Census was 148.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Windley
3 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.
- 01Duffield Castle
Duffield Castle was a Norman castle in Duffield, Derbyshire. The site is a scheduled monument.
3.8 km · Norman castle in Duffield, Derbyshire, England · Wikipedia - 02Church of All Saints
All Saints’ Church, Mugginton is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Weston Underwood, Derbyshire.
3.2 km · church in Mugginton, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St John the Evangelist
St John the Evangelist's Church, Hazelwood is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Hazelwood, Derbyshire.
2.4 km · church building in Hazelwood, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England, UK · 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.
Getting to Windley
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 24 km · Manchester (MAN), 62 km · Birmingham (BHX), 63 km
- Stations
- Idridgehay railway station, 3.9 km · Shottle railway station, 1.7 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Windley70 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £8–11
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Windley63 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £7–10
- Liverpool → Windley106 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £14–18
- 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 Windley
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 Windley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
- 01258 km
- 02295 km
- 03369 km
- 04404 km
- 05430 km
If you know how people move in Windley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Windley
Windley is 27 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Weston Underwoodvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England3 km
- Hazelwoodvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England2.4 km
- Turnditchvillage and civil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England1.7 km
- Ravensdale Parkcivil parish in Amber Valley District, Derbyshire, England3.3 km
- Idridgehay and Altoncivil parish in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England3.6 km
- Shottle and Posterncivil parish in Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England3.1 km