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 historic market town in Derbyshire, with a population of 3,400 in 2024. It's the only sizable town in the Peak District National Park, and the park headquarters are here.

Monyash

Village

Photo: Robert Cutts, CC BY 2.0.

Monyash is a village and civil parish in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England, 5 miles west of the market town Bakewell. It is centred on a village green 265 metres above sea level at the head of Lathkill Dale in the limestone area known as the White Peak.

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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