East Midlands
Derbyshire
High Peak District

Glossop

Glossop is a town of 33,000 people on the edge of the . It lies in the county of , which is part of the .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Glossop railway station and Dinting railway station.

Railway station
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serves the town of Glossop in , . Glossop is the third busiest railway station in the county of Derbyshire after and .

Railway station
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serves the village of Dinting in , England. It is a stop on the Glossop line and, prior to the Woodhead Line's closure in 1981, Dinting was a station on the Great Central Main Line between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield Victoria.

Square
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is in the centre of Glossop in Derbyshire, England, a former mill town close to the . It forms part of the town centre, adjacent to the crossroads where the A57 road meets the A624. , opened in 1845, is just to the north of the square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hadfield and Padfield.

Town
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is a town in the of , England; it had a population of 6,763 at the 2021 Census. It lies on the south side of the River Etherow, near to the border with , at the western edge of the and close to Glossop.

Village
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is a small village near in , , England. The village is on the west side of the Peak District National Park, and the nearest town is Glossop, where many local amenities and services are based.

Suburb
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is a small village near the town of Glossop in , England. The population of the High Peak ward at the 2011 Census was 4,727. It has one pub, the Hare and Hounds, in the south of the village at the top of Lane.

Glossop

Latitude
53.4434° or 53° 26′ 36″ north
Longitude
-1.9499° or 1° 56′ 60″ west
Population
33,000
Elevation
512 feet (156 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB GSP
Open location code
9C5WC3V2+82
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26419849
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2648405
Wiki­data ID
Q383912
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Glossop” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غلوسوب”
  • Asturian: “Glossop”
  • Basque: “Glossop”
  • Breton: “Glossop”
  • Bulgarian: “Глосъп”
  • Cebuano: “Glossop”
  • Chinese: “格洛瑟普”
  • Chinese: “格洛索普”
  • Czech: “Glossop”
  • Dutch: “Glossop”
  • Esperanto: “Glossop”
  • Finnish: “Glossop”
  • French: “Glossop”
  • German: “Glossop”
  • Hebrew: “גלוסופ”
  • Irish: “Glossop”
  • Italian: “Glossop”
  • Japanese: “グロソップ”
  • Japanese: “ダービーシャー”
  • Ladin: “Glossop”
  • Latin: “Ardotalia”
  • Latvian: “Glosopa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Glossop”
  • Persian: “گلوسوپ”
  • Polish: “Glossop”
  • Portuguese: “Glossop”
  • Romanian: “Glossop”
  • Russian: “Глоссоп”
  • Silesian: “Glossop”
  • Slovak: “Glossop”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قلوسوپ”
  • Spanish: “Glossop”
  • Swedish: “Glossop”
  • Ukrainian: “Глоссоп”
  • Vietnamese: “Glossop”
  • Volapük: “Glossop”
  • Welsh: “Glossop”
  • “Glossop”

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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 “Glossop”. Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0.