Village in Derbyshire, England

Rowsley

Rowsley is a village on the A6 road in the English county of Derbyshire.

Plan a trip to Rowsley→From Nottingham, Leicestershire

Every way there

Nottingham, Leicestershire → Rowsley
41 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £4.5–6
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Manchester, Greater Manchester → Rowsley
52 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £6–8
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Leeds, West Yorkshire → Rowsley
68 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £8–10
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The field note

What is in and around Rowsley, 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 Rowsley has

YScheduled flightsNottingham, Leicestershire (EMA), 44 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
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. Nearest place with more: Chesterfield, 15 km.

53.190°, -1.614°

The population as at the 2011 census was 507.

How locals move

Getting around Rowsley 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.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: mattbuck (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.