The West Shed Museum

The West Shed Museum is a museum in Swanwick, Amber Valley District, England. The West Shed Museum is situated nearby to the rideable miniature railway Butterley Park Minature Railway, as well as near the museum Matthew Kirtley Building.

Type: Museum
Description: Independent Museum in the East Midlands, United Kingdom
Also known as: “Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust’s West Shed Experience”, “The Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust’s West Shed Experience”, and “West Shed Experience”
Roof shape: gabled

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Swanwick Junction railway station and Butterley railway station.

Swanwick Junction railway station

Railway station

Photo: Dave Hitchborne, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Swanwick Junction railway station is a heritage railway station situated on the former Ambergate to Pye Bridge Line which closed in 1968, but has been partially reopened by the Midland Railway - Butterley. Swanwick Junction railway station is situated 1,500 feet east of The West Shed Museum.

Butterley railway station

Railway station

Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Butterley railway station is a preserved railway station on the Heritage Midland Railway - Butterley in Derbyshire. Butterley railway station is situated 2,400 feet west of The West Shed Museum.

Butterley Reservoir

Reservoir

Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.

Butterley Reservoir is a reservoir in Derbyshire, England. The reservoir was built to provide water for the Cromford Canal which opened for use in 1794.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Butterley and Ripley.

Butterley

Hamlet

Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Butterley is a village in the civil parish of Ripley, in the Amber Valley district, in the county of Derbyshire, England. The area is dominated by the now disused site of the Butterley Company and the Butterley Reservoir.

Ripley

Photo: Jonathan Gill, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Ripley is a market town and civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England. It lies north-east of Derby, north-west of Heanor, south-west of Alfreton and north-east of Belper.

Swanwick

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Swanwick is a village in Derbyshire, England, also a parish within the Amber Valley district, with a population of 5,316 at the 2001 census, falling to 5,084 at the 2011 Census.

The West Shed Museum

Categories: independent museum, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Swanwick, Amber Valley District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.06259° or 53° 3′ 45″ north

Longitude

-1.39037° or 1° 23′ 25″ west

Open location code

9C5W3J75+2V

OpenStreetMap ID

way 110018098

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

OpenStreetMap attribute

roof-shape=gabled

Wikidata ID

Q116738970

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