Castle Cave
Castle Cave is a cave in Thorpe, Derbyshire Dales District, England. Castle Cave is situated nearby to Dovedale Castle, as well as near the peak Thorpe Cloud.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Thorpe Cloud and Church of St Leonard.
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.
Church of St Leonard
Church
Photo: Tim Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Leonard is situated 4,200 feet southeast of Castle Cave.
Church of the Holy Cross
Church
Photo: Dennis Thorley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of the Holy Cross is the Church of England parish church of Ilam, Staffordshire, England. It is within the grounds of Ilam Park. The church is a Grade I listed building, and has been since 1967. Church of the Holy Cross is situated 1 mile west of Castle Cave.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thorpe and Dovedale.
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.
Dovedale
Locality
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.
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 1½ miles east of Castle Cave.
Castle Cave
- Type: Cave
- Category: landform
- Location: Thorpe, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.05833° or 53° 3′ 30″ northLongitude
-1.77867° or 1° 46′ 43″ westOpen location code
9C5W365C+8GOpenStreetMap ID
node 7161245317OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cave_entrance
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