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Derbyshire Dales District

Hopton

Hopton is a small village adjacent to the village of and two miles from the market town of in the Derbyshire Dales. Evidence of human activity near Hopton, during a warm period known as the Aveley Interglacial around 200,000 years ago, is provided by the discovery of a Paleolithic Acheulean hand axe in the area.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 104 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England
  • Also known as: “Hopton, Derbyshire”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dream Cave and Wirksworth Town Hall.

Cave
is a natural limestone cavern located near and Hopton in , England. It was discovered by lead miners in 1822 and was found to contain the almost complete skeletal remains of a woolly rhinoceros and other large mammal bones.

Town hall
Photo: Paul Buckingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a municipal building in Coldwell Street, , , England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Wirksworth Urban District Council, now accommodates the local public library.

Photo: Andrew Woodvine (awo…, CC BY 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wirksworth and Cromford.

Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a historical market town 4 miles south of Matlock with a population of around 5,200 in , .

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is a village of approximately 1400 inhabitants in , in the wooded valley of the river Derwent, 17 miles north of .

Village
Photo: Stephen Henley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Middleton or is an upland village and civil parish lying approximately one mile NNW of , , England. Middleton was, in 1086, a berewick of the town and manor of Wirksworth.

Hopton

Latitude
53.0757° or 53° 4′ 32″ north
Longitude
-1.6134° or 1° 36′ 48″ west
Population
104
Elevation
1,056 feet (322 metres)
Open location code
9C5W39GP+7J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 763107581
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
7298150
Wiki­data ID
Q1627795
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Hopton” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Hopton (parokya sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Derbyshire)”
  • Cebuano: “Hopton”
  • Chinese: “Hopton”
  • Dutch: “Hopton”
  • French: “Hopton”
  • German: “Hopton (Derbyshire)”
  • German: “Hopton”
  • Irish: “Hopton”
  • Japanese: “ホップトン”
  • Japanese: “ホプトン”
  • Ladin: “Hopton”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hopton (Derbyshire)”
  • Polish: “Hopton”
  • Russian: “Хоптон”
  • Swedish: “Hopton, Derbyshire”
  • Swedish: “Hopton”
  • “Hopton”

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