Carsington Water Visitor Centre
Carsington Water Visitor Centre is in Hognaston, Derbyshire Dales District, England. Carsington Water Visitor Centre is situated nearby to Carsington Sports and Leisure, as well as near Carsington Sailing Club.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Bartholomew and Miner’s Arms Inn.
Church of St Bartholomew
Church
Photo: Andrew Hill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Bartholomew is situated 3,900 feet southwest of Carsington Water Visitor Centre.
Miner’s Arms Inn
Photo: Andrew Woodvine (awo…, CC BY 3.0.
Miner’s Arms Inn is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Carsington Water Visitor Centre.
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. Dream Cave is situated 2 miles northeast of Carsington Water Visitor Centre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hognaston and Carsington.
Hognaston
Village
Photo: Mike Fowkes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hognaston is a small village and civil parish in Derbyshire, East Midlands, England. Hognaston has a population of approximately 200; including Atlow and increasing at the 2011 Census to 366, and has a play area, pub, church and a village hall.
Carsington
Village
Photo: Stephen G Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carsington is a village and civil parish in the middle of the Derbyshire Dales, England. The village is about 2 miles west of the market town of Wirksworth and is just north of Carsington Water.
Hopton
Hamlet
Photo: U1ajl5xge2, CC0.
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. Hopton is situated 1½ miles northeast of Carsington Water Visitor Centre.
Carsington Water Visitor Centre
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Wheelchair access: yes
- Category: tourism
- Location: Hognaston, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.06099° or 53° 3′ 40″ northLongitude
-1.64111° or 1° 38′ 28″ westOpen location code
9C5W3965+9HOpenStreetMap ID
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tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
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