Rookery Plantation

Rookery Plantation is a deciduous forest in Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire Dales District, England. Access is restricted and requires permission. Rookery Plantation is situated nearby to the village Ashford-in-the-Water, as well as near the hamlet Sheldon.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Magpie Mine and Fin Cop.

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.

Fin Cop

Peak

Photo: Jonathan Clitheroe, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Fin Cop is a hill and an associated Iron Age hill fort in Monsal Dale, close to Ashford in the Water in Derbyshire, England. The fort shows evidence of hurried construction, indicating a defensive response to a real threat, rather than the more usual assumption that such forts were a display of status and prestige.

Thornbridge Hall

Park

Photo: DAVID M GOODWIN, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Thornbridge Hall is a large English country house near the village of Great Longstone in the Derbyshire Dales. It is a Grade II listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bakewell and Great Longstone.

Bakewell

Photo: John Walton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bakewell is a historic market town in Derbyshire, with a population of 3,400 in 2024. It's the only sizable town in the Peak District National Park, and the park headquarters are here.

Great Longstone

Village

Photo: Alan Heardman, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Great Longstone, with Little Longstone, is one of two villages in the local government district of Derbyshire Dales in Derbyshire, England. The population as taken at the 2011 Census was 843.

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.

Rookery Plantation

Access is restricted and requires permission.
Type: Deciduous forest
Category: forest
Location: Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.2244° or 53° 13′ 28″ north

Longitude

-1.7204° or 1° 43′ 13″ west

Open location code

9C5W67FH+QR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 430213622

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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