Shireoaks

Shireoaks is a locality in Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside, High Peak District, England. Shireoaks is situated near the locality Malcoff, as well as near Bowden Head.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Chestnut Centre and Green Low ringcairn.

Chestnut Centre

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

Green Low ringcairn

Archaeological site

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

Green Low ringcairn is an archaeological site.

South Head

Peak

Photo: Peter McDermott, CC BY-SA 2.0.

South Head is a gritstone hill between the villages of Hayfield and Chinley in the Derbyshire Peak District. The summit is 494 metres above sea level. It lies at the south of the head of the River Sett.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chapel Milton and Bagshaw.

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”.

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-en-le-Frith

Town

Photo: Peter Barr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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. Chapel-en-le-Frith is situated 2 miles southwest of Shireoaks.

Shireoaks

Type: Locality
Location: Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside, High Peak District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.34582° or 53° 20′ 45″ north

Longitude

-1.89533° or 1° 53′ 43″ west

Elevation

1,027 feet (313 metres)

Open location code

9C5W84W3+8V

GeoNames ID

13282274

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Places to explore: Malcoff and Bowden Head.

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