Townend

Townend is a locality in Chapel-en-le-Frith, High Peak District, England. Townend is situated nearby to the locality Smithfield, as well as near Blackbrook.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St Thomas of Canterbury and Chapel-en-le-Frith railway station.

Church of St Thomas of Canterbury

Church

Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Chapel-en-le-Frith railway station

Railway station

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Chapel-en-le-Frith railway station serves the Peak District town of Chapel-en-le-Frith, in Derbyshire, England. It is sited 20+1⁄2 mi south-east of Manchester Piccadilly on the Buxton Line.

Chestnut Centre

The Chestnut Centre was a wildlife park near Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, UK. It opened in 1984, and closed in 2017.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chapel-en-le-Frith and Bagshaw.

Chapel-en-le-Frith is a town and civil parish, in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England. It has been dubbed the "Capital of the Peak", in reference to the Peak District, historically the highland areas between the Saxon lands and the Viking lands.

Bagshaw

Hamlet

Photo: Jonathan Clitheroe, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bagshaw is a hamlet in Derbyshire, England. The hamlet falls within the civil parish of Chapel-en-le-Frith. It is about 1.2 km or 0.75 miles east of Chapel-en-le-Frith, and within the boundaries of the Peak District National Park.

Chapel Milton

Hamlet

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

Chapel Milton is a hamlet on the outskirts of Chapel-en-le-Frith on the road leading from there to Chinley and to Glossop. Within the parish of Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside, it takes its name from the site of a medieval corn mill, Maynstonfield Mill, or “Mainstonefield alias Chinley”.

Townend

Type: Locality
Location: Chapel-en-le-Frith, High Peak District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.32464° or 53° 19′ 29″ north

Longitude

-1.90278° or 1° 54′ 10″ west

Elevation

745 feet (227 metres)

Open location code

9C5W83FW+VV

GeoNames ID

13266393

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