Sheldon
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 82 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England
- Also known as: “Sheldon, Derbyshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Sheldon and Holme Deene.
St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Sheldon
Church
Photo: John Darch, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Sheldon is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Sheldon, Derbyshire.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ashford-in-the-Water and Brushfield.
Ashford-in-the-Water
Village
Photo: Andy Jamieson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ashford-in-the-Water is a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Peak District, England. The village is on the River Wye, 2 miles north-west of Bakewell.
Brushfield
Hamlet
Photo: Brian Abbott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brushfield is a hamlet and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, in the Peak District National Park. It is about 8 miles east of Buxton. Brushfield is situated 2 miles northwest of Sheldon.
Little Longstone
Village
Photo: Alan Rolfe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Longstone is a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district, in the county of Derbyshire, England. The village is on a minor road west of Great Longstone, just off the B6465 road from Wardlow to Ashford-in-the-Water. Little Longstone is situated 2 miles northeast of Sheldon.
Sheldon
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Sheldon, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.21593° or 53° 12′ 57″ northLongitude
-1.73961° or 1° 44′ 23″ westPopulation
82Elevation
1,079 feet (329 metres)Open location code
9C5W6786+95OpenStreetMap ID
node 29392336OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
12262406Wikidata ID
Q2290148
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Sheldon” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sheldon (parokya sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Derbyshire)”
- Cebuano: “Sheldon”
- Chinese: “Sheldon”
- Chinese: “謝爾登”
- Chinese: “谢尔登”
- Dutch: “Sheldon”
- French: “Sheldon”
- Irish: “Sheldon”
- Italian: “Sheldon (Derbyshire)”
- Italian: “Sheldon”
- Japanese: “シェルドン (ダービーシャー)”
- Ladin: “Sheldon (Derbyshire)”
- Ladin: “Sheldon”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sheldon (Derbyshire)”
- Persian: “شلدون، داربیشر”
- Polish: “Sheldon”
- Swedish: “Sheldon, Derbyshire”
- Swedish: “Sheldon”
- Turkish: “Sheldon, Derbyshire”
- Welsh: “Sheldon, Swydd Derby”
- Welsh: “Sheldon”
- “Sheldon”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sheldon”. Photo: Dave.Dunford, Public domain.