Cherpit Plantation

Cherpit Plantation is a forest in Great Longstone, Derbyshire Dales District, England. Cherpit Plantation is situated nearby to the village Little Longstone, as well as near the hamlet Monsal Head.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fin Cop and St Giles’ Church, Longstone.

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.

St Giles’ Church, Longstone

Church

Photo: Bob Abell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Giles’ Church, Longstone is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Great Longstone, Derbyshire.

Church of Good Shepherd And Attached School

Church

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

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eyam and Bakewell.

Eyam

Photo: Davepape, CC0.

Eyam is a village in the Derbyshire Dales that lies within the Peak District National Park. Eyam has many Plague-related places of interest. It is pronounced "Eem".

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.

Cherpit Plantation

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

53.2528° or 53° 15′ 10″ north

Longitude

-1.7231° or 1° 43′ 23″ west

Open location code

9C5W773G+4Q

OpenStreetMap ID

way 49218840

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

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