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Explore Buxton
Buxton in Derbyshire (England) with it's 21,300 inhabitants is a city in United Kingdom about 142 mi (or 229 km) north-west of London, the country's capital.
Local time in Buxton is now 07:15 AM (Sunday). The local timezone is named Europe / London with an UTC offset of zero hours. We know of 8 airports in the vicinity of Buxton, of which 6 are larger airports. The closest airport in United Kingdom is Manchester Woodford Airport in a distance of 11 mi (or 18 km), North-West. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There are several Unesco world heritage sites nearby. The closest heritage site in United Kingdom is Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City in a distance of 39 mi (or 62 km), East. Also, if you like golfing, there are multiple options in driving distance. We found 1 points of interest in the vicinity of this place. If you need a place to sleep, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Depending on your travel schedule, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Disley, Pott Shrigley, Bollington, Adlington and Prestbury. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 12°C / 54 °F
Morning Temperature | 12°C / 54 °F |
Evening Temperature | 7°C / 45 °F |
Night Temperature | 7°C / 44 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 16% |
Air Humidity | 93% |
Air Pressure | 987 hPa |
Wind Speed | High wind, near gale with 23 km/h (14 mph) from North |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
General Conditions | Heavy intensity rain |
Monday, 25th of November 2024
5°C (42 °F)
3°C (37 °F)
Overcast clouds, strong breeze.
Tuesday, 26th of November 2024
4°C (39 °F)
1°C (34 °F)
Few clouds, moderate breeze.
Wednesday, 27th of November 2024
4°C (39 °F)
2°C (35 °F)
Broken clouds, light breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Palace Hotel Buxton
BUXTON LEE WOOD HOTEL
Old Hall
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Inn
Rushop Hall
The Portland Hotel
Buxton
Staden Grange Country House
Videos from this area
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Ride and Skid It Speedway Experience at Buxton, Derbyshire.
A look into what to expect from your experience day at Ride and Skid It, Buxton.
Buxton Carnival 2014 - July 12th (Part 1 of 4)
Full Footage of Buxton Carnival, July 12th, 2014. Video 1 of 4 Featuring various floats and performers including High peak Radio, Buxton Community School, Steves Tryes and Exhausts, Fairfield...
Buxton 5 Belper 1
Match report, and video featured at http://bfctv.net/buxton-5-belper-1/ along with all Buxton FC videos.
Buxton 5 Grantham 1
See http://bfctv.net/buxton-5-grantham-1/ for match report and other great videos produced by BFC TV. Contact Paul Curran at http://smsprofits.net if you want promotional videos for your business.
Mark Reed's 250th Goal For Buxton FC
Mark Reed's winning goal for Buxton V Halesowen today was his 250th for the club.
Stern's Dark Knight Batman Pinball machine in Buxton, England
This is me playing the new pinball in the Queen's Head Hotel, Buxton, Derbyshire, England. It's smashing!
Buxton Carnival 2014 - July 12th (Part 3 of 4)
Full Footage of Buxton Carnival, July 12th, 2014. Video 3 of 4 Featuring various floats and performers including High peak Radio, Buxton Community School, Steves Tryes and Exhausts, Fairfield...
Buxton 2 Curzon Ashton 1 - 30.09.14
Match report and video at http://bfctv.net/buxton-2-curzon-ashton-1/. All videos at http://bfctv.net.
Buxton 7 Stocksbridge 0 - 26.12.12
Main web site is at http://bfctv.net for match reports, photo links, buy DVDs of highlights or full games etc.
Buxton, Darley Dale and Manchester Central stations circa 1961
Brief amateur cine film scenes of a DMU departing Buxton, followed by shots of the signal box, level crossing and station at Darley Dale with a class 8F 48729 running tender first with freight...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Buxton Opera House
Buxton Opera House is in The Square, Buxton, Derbyshire, England. It is a 902-seat opera house that hosts the annual Buxton Festival and International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, among others, as well as pantomime at Christmas, musicals and other entertainments year-round. Hosting live performances until 1927, the theatre then was used mostly as a cinema until 1976. In 1979, it was refurbished and reopened as a venue for live performance.
Buxton F.C
Buxton Football Club are an English football club based in Buxton, Derbyshire. They were established in 1877 and joined the Combination League in 1891. They then joined the Manchester League in 1899 and won the championship in 1932. They reached the Third Round of the FA Cup in the 1951–52 season. Their patron is the Duke of Devonshire. The club supports and hosts local senior, junior and ladies football. They are currently members of the Northern Premier League Premier Division.
Poole's Cavern
Poole's Cavern or Poole's Hole is a 2 million year old, natural limestone cave on the edge of Buxton in the Peak District, in the county of Derbyshire, England. A natural cavern, Poole's forms part of the Wye system, and has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Buxton College
Buxton College was a boys' grammar school in Buxton, Derbyshire.
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Buxton Museum & Art Gallery {{#invoke:InfoboxImage|InfoboxImage|image=Buxton Museum outside. jpg|size=|sizedefault=250px|alt=}}Location Buxton, DerbyshireWebsite Museum website Buxton Museum and Art Gallery focuses its collection on history, geology and archaeology. The museum is located at Terrace Road, Buxton, England. The museum opens every day except Mondays. Admission is free. The building was erected in 1880 and originally served as the Peak Hydropathic Hotel.
Higher Buxton railway station
Higher Buxton railway station was opened in 1894 to the south east of Buxton, Derbyshire, on the LNWR line to Ashbourne and the south . It utilised part of the Cromford and High Peak Railway, joining it at Hindlow and proceeding to a branch to Ashbourne at Parsley Hay On leaving its bay at Buxton LNWR station, it turned through a tight 180-degree curve southwards across a thirteen-arch skew viaduct 87 feet high over the Midland line and Spring Gardens, with an uphill gradient of 1 in 62.
Park Road, Buxton
Park Road is a cricket ground in Buxton, England where the Derbyshire first XI played between 1923 and 1986. Undoubtedly, the ground’s biggest claim to fame was in 1975, when the second day’s play of the County Championship match against Lancashire was wiped out due to snow. An article on that match can be found in the May 2008 edition of the Wisden Cricketer magazine. For some strange reason, Lancashire have provided opposition for 26 of the 48 first-class games at the ground.
Hogshawe
Hogshawe or Hogshaw is an area of settlement in Derbyshire, England. It is a part of Buxton, located between the A6 Fairfield Road and the present Peak Rail railway line. By the 1890s the area had been enclosed on the west and north sides by the London and North Western Railway and Midland Railway lines, with Lightwood Road running across from south-east to north-west.
Fairfield, Derbyshire
Fairfield is an urban area of Buxton in Derbyshire, located half a mile to the north east of Buxton town centre. It is centred around the 'Green', a village green.
Devonshire Royal Hospital
The Devonshire Royal Hospital building (now popularly known as the Devonshire Dome) is a Grade II* listed 18th-century former stable block in Buxton, Derbyshire. It was built by John Carr of York and extended by architect Robert Rippon Duke, who added what was then the world's largest unsupported dome, with a diameter of 44.2 metres . It is now the site of the Devonshire campus of the University of Derby.
Old Hall Hotel
The Old Hall Hotel is a hotel in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, and is one of the oldest buildings in the town. The current building dates from the Restoration period, built around and incorporating an earlier fortified tower. According to the Derbyshire Archeological Journal (1994): "In the national context, the survival of a building which accommodated both Mary Queen of Scots and much of the Elizabethan nobility is of considerable note.
Buxton Crescent
Buxton Crescent is a Grade-I-listed building in the town of Buxton, Derbyshire, England. Owing much to the Royal Crescent in Bath, but described by the Royal Institution of British Architects as "more richly decorated and altogether more complex", it was designed by the architect John Carr, and built for the Fifth Duke of Devonshire between 1780 and 1789.