Town in Derbyshire, England

Chesterfield

Chesterfield is a market and industrial town in the county of Derbyshire, England.

Plan a trip to Chesterfield→From Nottingham, Leicestershire

Every way there

Nottingham, Leicestershire → Chesterfield
37 km · quickest by road, 58 min · £4–5
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Manchester, Greater Manchester → Chesterfield
60 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £7–9
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Leeds, West Yorkshire → Chesterfield
61 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £7–9
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Chesterfield, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Chesterfield has

YScheduled flightsNottingham, Leicestershire (EMA), 46 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

53.236°, -1.429°

It is 24 miles (39 km) north of Derby and 11 miles (18 km) south of Sheffield at the confluence of the Rivers Rother and Hipper. The wider Borough of Chesterfield had a population of 103,569 in the 2021 Census. The town itself had a population of 76,402.

How locals move

Getting around Chesterfield the local way

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. Last edited 2026-05.

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