Birchover
Birchover is a village and civil parish in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, England, five miles north-west of Matlock. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 362. Eagle Tor is a small hamlet on the north-western edge of the parish.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Robert Cutts, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Village with 328 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England
- Also known as: “Birchover, Derbyshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Michael’s Church, Birchover and Doll Tor.
St Michael’s Church, Birchover
Church
Photo: Robert Cutts, CC BY 2.0.
St Michael's Church, Birchover, also known as Rowtor Chapel, is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Birchover, Derbyshire. Located in the Peak District National Park, St Michael was built as a privately endowed chapel for the nearby Rowtor Hall.
Doll Tor
Archaeological site
Photo: Elfmeterschiessen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Doll Tor is a stone circle just west of Stanton Moor, near the village of Birchover, Derbyshire in the English East Midlands. Doll Tor is part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages, over a period between 3300 and 900 BCE.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Winster and Elton.
Winster
Village
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Winster is a village in the English Derbyshire Dales about 5 miles from Matlock and 6 miles from Bakewell at an altitude of approximately 820 feet. It was formerly a centre for the lead mining industry.
Elton
Village
Photo: Mike Fowkes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Elton is a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, and lies within the Peak District. Its nearest towns are Bakewell and Matlock.
Stanton in Peak
Village
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stanton in Peak is a village in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, It is about seven miles north-west of Matlock, on the north side of Stanton Moor, from Birchover.
Birchover
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Birchover, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.15599° or 53° 9′ 22″ northLongitude
-1.64447° or 1° 38′ 40″ westPopulation
328Elevation
774 feet (236 metres)Open location code
9C5W5944+96OpenStreetMap ID
node 29292506OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12262545Wikidata ID
Q4915766
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Birchover” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Бирчовер”
- Cebuano: “Birchover”
- Chinese: “Birchover”
- Chinese: “伯奇弗”
- Dutch: “Birchover”
- French: “Birchover”
- German: “Birchover”
- Irish: “Birchover”
- Italian: “Birchover”
- Ladin: “Birchover”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Birchover”
- Polish: “Birchover”
- Swedish: “Birchover”
- Turkish: “Birchover”
- Welsh: “Birchover”
- “Birchover”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Reading Room (Village Hall) and Birchover Wood.
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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 “Birchover”. Photo: Robert Cutts, CC BY 2.0.