Godfreyhole
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alan Heardman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dream Cave and Wirksworth Town Hall.
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.
Wirksworth Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: Paul Buckingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wirksworth Town Hall is a municipal building in Coldwell Street, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Wirksworth Urban District Council, now accommodates the local public library.
St Mary’s Church, Wirksworth
Church
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St Mary the Virgin is a parish church in the Church of England in Wirksworth, Derbyshire. It is a Grade I listed building. The existing building dates mostly from the 13th–15th centuries, but notable survivals from the Anglo-Saxon period indicate a church has stood on this site since at least the 8th century AD.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hopton and Callow.
Hopton
Hamlet
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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.
Callow
Hamlet
Photo: Eamon Curry, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Carsington
Village
Photo: Stephen G Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carsington is a village in the middle of the Derbyshire Dales, England; it adjoins the hamlet of Hopton, and is close to the historic town of Wirksworth and village of Brassington.
Godfreyhole
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet in Derbyshire, England
- Category: locality
- Location: Wirksworth, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.07951° or 53° 4′ 46″ northLongitude
-1.5975° or 1° 35′ 51″ westElevation
778 feet (237 metres)Open location code
9C5W3CH2+RXOpenStreetMap ID
node 278920491OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Godfreyhole” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Godfreyhole”
- French: “Godfreyhole”
- Irish: “Godfreyhole”
- Polish: “Godfreyhole”
- Welsh: “Godfreyhole”
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