Dovedale
Dovedale is a valley in the Peak District of England. The land is owned by the National Trust and attracts a million visitors annually. The valley was cut by the River Dove and runs for just over 3 miles between Milldale in the north and a wooded ravine, near Thorpe Cloud and Bunster Hill, in the south.- Type: Locality
- Description: valley on the boundary of Derbyshire and Staffordshire, in England
- Also known as: “Dove Dale”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thorpe Cloud and Moat Low bowl barrow.
Thorpe Cloud
Peak
Thorpe Cloud is an isolated limestone hill lying between the villages of Thorpe and Ilam on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border at the southern end of Dovedale.
Castern Hall
Farm
Photo: John Darch, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castern Hall, also known as Casterne Hall, is a privately owned 18th-century country house in the Manifold Valley, near Ilam, Staffordshire, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thorpe and Alsop en le Dale.
Thorpe
Village
Photo: John Darch, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thorpe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire; it is on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border, on the east bank of the River Dove, about four miles north of Ashbourne. Thorpe is situated 1½ miles southeast of Dovedale.
Alsop en le Dale
Village
Photo: Stephen G Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Alsop en le Dale is a village in Derbyshire, England about 5 miles north of Ashbourne close to the Staffordshire border, and a mile from Dovedale, a popular tourist location within the Peak District national park. Alsop en le Dale is situated 2 miles northeast of Dovedale.
Tissington
Village
Tissington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Tissington and Lea Hall, in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. Tissington is situated 2 miles east of Dovedale.
Dovedale
- Category: valley
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.06979° or 53° 4′ 11″ northLongitude
-1.7873° or 1° 47′ 14″ westOpen location code
9C5W3697+W3OpenStreetMap ID
node 1675754350OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q5302426
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Dovedale” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Dove Dale”
- Dutch: “Dovedale”
- French: “Dovedale”
- Irish: “Dovedale”
- Japanese: “ダブデール”
- Swedish: “Dove Dale”
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