Thorpe
Thorpe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire; it is on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border, on the east bank of the River Dove, about four miles north of Ashbourne.Places of Interest
Highlights include Tissington Hall and Thorpe Cloud.
Tissington Hall
Castle
Photo: Joe Empson, CC BY 2.0.
Tissington Hall is an early 17th-century Jacobean mansion house in Tissington, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire. It is a Grade II* listed building. The FitzHerberts, descended from the Norman family of Norbury Hall, acquired Tissington by the marriage of Nicholas FitzHerbert to Ciceley Frauncis, heiress of Tissington, in 1465.
Thorpe Cloud
Peak
Thorpe Cloud is an isolated limestone hill lying between the villages of Thorpe and Ilam on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border at the southern end of Dovedale.
St Edmund’s Church, Fenny Bentley
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ashbourne and Tissington.
Ashbourne
Photo: Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0.
Ashbourne is a market town in the Derbyshire Dales district in Derbyshire, England, 14 miles west of Derby. Its population was measured at 8,377 in the 2011 census and was estimated to have grown to 9,163 by 2019.
Tissington
Village
Tissington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Tissington and Lea Hall, in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England.
Mapleton
Village
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mapleton, sometimes spelt Mappleton, is a village and a civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales District, in the English county of Derbyshire. It is near the River Dove and the town of Ashbourne.
Thorpe
- Type: Locality
- Location: Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.0492° or 53° 2′ 57″ northLongitude
-1.7631° or 1° 45′ 47″ westElevation
663 feet (202 metres)Open location code
9C5W26XP+MQGeoNames ID
7293258
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