Callow
Callow is a village and a civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales District, in the English county of Derbyshire. At the 2011 Census the population of the civil parish was less than 100.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Eamon Curry, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 59 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England
- Also known as: “Callow, Derbyshire”
- Neighbors: Wirksworth
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dream Cave and Holy Trinity Church.
Dream Cave
Cave
Dream Cave is a natural limestone cavern located near Wirksworth and Hopton in Derbyshire, England. It was discovered by lead miners in 1822 and was found to contain the almost complete skeletal remains of a woolly rhinoceros and other large mammal bones.
Holy Trinity Church
Church
Photo: Neil Theasby, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holy Trinity Church, Kirk Ireton, is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Kirk Ireton, Derbyshire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hopton and Godfreyhole.
Hopton
Hamlet
Photo: U1ajl5xge2, CC0.
Hopton is a small village adjacent to the village of Carsington and two miles from the market town of Wirksworth in the Derbyshire Dales. Evidence of human activity near Hopton, during a warm period known as the Aveley Interglacial around 200,000 years ago, is provided by the discovery of a Paleolithic Acheulean hand axe in the area.
Godfreyhole
Hamlet
Photo: Alan Heardman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Godfreyhole is a hamlet in the civil parish of Wirksworth, in the Derbyshire Dales district, in the county of Derbyshire, England. It is located at the junction of the B5035 and West End roads, 2 miles west of Wirksworth.
Kirk Ireton
Village
Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirk Ireton is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, 4 miles southwest of Wirksworth on a hillside near Carsington Water, 700 feet above sea level.
Callow
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Callow, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.06456° or 53° 3′ 52″ northLongitude
-1.60232° or 1° 36′ 8″ westPopulation
59Elevation
833 feet (254 metres)Open location code
9C5W397X+R3OpenStreetMap ID
node 29354363OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
13275007Wikidata ID
Q2178025
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Callow” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Callow”
- Chinese: “Callow”
- Dutch: “Callow”
- French: “Callow”
- Irish: “Callow”
- Italian: “Callow (Derbyshire)”
- Italian: “Callow”
- Ladin: “Callow”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Callow (Derbyshire)”
- Polish: “Callow”
- Swedish: “Callow, Derbyshire”
- Swedish: “Callow”
- Turkish: “Callow, Derbyshire”
- Welsh: “Callow, Swydd Derby”
- “Callow”
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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 “Callow”. Photo: Eamon Curry, CC BY-SA 2.0.