Hard Rake Plantation

Hard Rake Plantation is a forest in Sheldon, Derbyshire Dales District, England. Hard Rake Plantation is situated nearby to the hamlet Sheldon, as well as near the village Monyash.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Magpie Mine and St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Sheldon.

Magpie Mine

Photo: Alan Fleming, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Magpie Mine is a well-preserved disused lead mine near the village of Sheldon in Derbyshire, England, in the parish of Ashford in the Water. The walled enclosure of five lead mines is a protected Scheduled Monument.

St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Sheldon

Church

Photo: John Darch, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Sheldon is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Sheldon, Derbyshire.

Bole Hill bowl barrow

Archaeological site

Photo: Dave.Dunford, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Bole Hill bowl barrow is an archaeological site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bakewell and Sheldon.

Bakewell

Photo: John Walton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bakewell is a picturesque historical market town in the heart of the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire famed for its Bakewell Puddings and Bakewell Tarts.

Sheldon

Hamlet

Photo: Dave.Dunford, Public domain.

Sheldon is a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Peak District, England, near Bakewell. It is best known for being the closest village to Magpie Mine, a lead mine with an engine house built in the Cornish style.

Taddington

Village

Photo: Warofdreams, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Taddington is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish, together with neighbouring Blackwell in the Peak and Brushfield parishes, as taken at the 2011 census, was 457.

Hard Rake Plantation

Type: Forest
Location: Sheldon, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.2104° or 53° 12′ 38″ north

Longitude

-1.7649° or 1° 45′ 54″ west

Open location code

9C5W666P+53

OpenStreetMap ID

way 41226008

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Monyash and Flagg.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Hard Rake Plantation and Hartington Memorial Hall Sheldon.

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