East Midlands
Derbyshire
High Peak District

Buxton

Buxton is an ancient spa town in the , . It is in the county of which is classified as part of the East Midlands but it is probably more associated with the of .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Buxton Opera House and Buxton railway station.

Theater building
Photo: Davepape, Public domain.
in The Square, Buxton, Derbyshire, England, is a 902-seat opera house. It hosts the annual Buxton Festival and the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, among others, as well as pantomime at Christmas, musicals and other entertainments year-round.

Railway station
Photo: roger geach, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of Buxton in , England. It is managed and served by Northern Trains. The station is 25+3⁄4 miles south-east of and is the terminus of the Buxton line.

Cave
Photo: Davepape, Public domain.
Poole's Cavern or Poole's Hole is a two-million-year-old natural limestone cave on the edge of Buxton in the , in the county of , England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burbage and Harpur Hill.

Village
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is a village in the High Peak district, in the county of , England. At the 2011 Census was a ward of the High Peak Borough Council.

Village
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is a small village on the outskirts of Buxton, , England. It is in the Cote Heath ward of the High Peak Borough Council. It has a primary school, a park, a pub, a working men's club and a Methodist church.

Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small village in , England, 3 miles northeast of Buxton and 1.3 miles southeast of . The population falls within the civil parish of . is situated 2½ miles northeast of Buxton.

Buxton

Latitude
53.2593° or 53° 15′ 34″ north
Longitude
-1.9101° or 1° 54′ 36″ west
Population
21,300
Elevation
1,037 feet (316 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BUX
Open location code
9C5W735Q+PX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 18085924
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2654141
Wiki­data ID
Q971223
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Buxton” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باكستون”
  • Arabic: “باكيستون”
  • Asturian: “Buxton”
  • Basque: “Buxton”
  • Belarusian: “Бакстан”
  • Breton: “Buxton”
  • Catalan: “Buxton”
  • Cebuano: “Buxton”
  • Chinese: “巴克斯頓”
  • Danish: “Buxton”
  • Dutch: “Buxton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باكستين”
  • Esperanto: “Bukstono”
  • Esperanto: “Buxton”
  • French: “Buxton”
  • German: “Buxton”
  • Hebrew: “באקסטון”
  • Irish: “Buxton”
  • Italian: “Buxton”
  • Japanese: “バクストン”
  • Japanese: “バックストン (ダービーシャー)”
  • Japanese: “ボクストン (ダービーシャー)”
  • Korean: “벅스턴”
  • Ladin: “Buxton”
  • Latin: “Aquae Arnemetiae”
  • Latin: “Bucostenum”
  • Latvian: “Bakstona”
  • Luxembourgish: “Buxton”
  • Maltese: “Buxton”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Buxton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Buxton”
  • Norwegian: “Buxton”
  • Persian: “بوکستون”
  • Polish: “Buxton”
  • Portuguese: “Buxton”
  • Romanian: “Buxton”
  • Russian: “Бакстон”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوکستون”
  • Spanish: “Buxton”
  • Swedish: “Buxton”
  • Ukrainian: “Бакстон”
  • Volapük: “Buxton”
  • Welsh: “Buxton”
  • “Buxton”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Buxton”. Photo: sidibousaid, CC BY 2.0.