Sheldon

Places of Interest

Magpie Mine

Photo: Alan Fleming, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Magpie Mine is a well-preserved disused lead mine near the village of Sheldon in Derbyshire, England, in the parish of Ashford in the Water. The walled enclosure of five lead mines is a protected Scheduled Monument.

Fin Cop

Peak

Photo: Jonathan Clitheroe, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Fin Cop is a hill and an associated Iron Age hill fort in Monsal Dale, close to Ashford in the Water in Derbyshire, England. The fort shows evidence of hurried construction, indicating a defensive response to a real threat, rather than the more usual assumption that such forts were a display of status and prestige.

Bole Hill bowl barrow

Archaeological site

Photo: Dave.Dunford, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Bole Hill bowl barrow is an archaeological site.

Places in the Area

Bakewell

Photo: John Walton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bakewell is a picturesque historical market town in the heart of the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire famed for its Bakewell Puddings and Bakewell Tarts.

Sheldon

Hamlet

Photo: Dave.Dunford, Public domain.

Sheldon is a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Peak District, England, near Bakewell. It is best known for being the closest village to Magpie Mine, a lead mine with an engine house built in the Cornish style.

Taddington

Village

Photo: Warofdreams, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Taddington is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish, together with neighbouring Blackwell in the Peak and Brushfield parishes, as taken at the 2011 census, was 457.

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