East Midlands
Derbyshire
High Peak District

Whaley Bridge

Whaley Bridge is a small town in , surrounded by the National Park, at the head of the Peak Forest Canal.
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  • Type: Town with 6,460 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Derbyshire, England
  • Also known as: “Whaley Bridge (civil parish), Derbyshire”, “Whaley Bridge (parish)”, and “Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Whaley Bridge railway station and Toddbrook Reservoir.

Railway station
Photo: Bill Booth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of Whaley Bridge, in , England. It is a stop on the Buxton Line, 16+1⁄4 miles south-east of Manchester Piccadilly.

Reservoir
Photo: Stephen Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, a feeder for the Peak Forest Canal, opened in 1838. It is above the town of Whaley Bridge in the area of , England.

Archaeological site
Photo: Dave.Dunford, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an archaeological site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Mills and Kettleshulme.

Photo: Alan Murray-Rust, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is in . It's unlikely to feature on many itineraries in its own right, but it's worth stopping off for an hour or two if travelling between and the .

Village
Photo: Roger May, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of and Lyme Handley, in the district, in the ceremonial county of , England.

Suburb
Photo: Dave.Dunford, Public domain.
is a village in the High Peak district of , England, between and Whaley Bridge. It is bisected by the A6 road and the Peak Forest Canal, whose towpath is followed by the Goyt Way, part of the 230-mile Midshires Way.

Whaley Bridge

Latitude
53.3301° or 53° 19′ 48″ north
Longitude
-1.9834° or 1° 59′ 0″ west
Population
6,460
Elevation
558 feet (170 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB WYB
Open location code
9C5W82J8+2J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26420029
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2634194
Wiki­data ID
Q652597
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Whaley Bridge” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Basque: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Bengali: “হোয়েলে ব্রিজ”
  • Cebuano: “Whaley Bridge (lungsod)”
  • Cebuano: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Chinese: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Chinese: “瓦利桥”
  • Chinese: “瓦利橋”
  • Dutch: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Finnish: “Whaley Bridge”
  • French: “Whaley Bridge”
  • German: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Gujarati: “વ્હેલી બ્રિજ”
  • Irish: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Italian: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Japanese: “ウェーリー・ブリッジ”
  • Japanese: “ホエーリー・ブリッジ”
  • Kannada: “ವೇಲೆ ಬ್ರಿಡ್ಜ್”
  • Korean: “웨일리 브리지”
  • Ladin: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Lithuanian: “Veili Bridžas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Persian: “والی بریج”
  • Polish: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Portuguese: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Romanian: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Russian: “Уоли-Бридж”
  • South Azerbaijani: “والی بریج”
  • Spanish: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Swedish: “Whaley Bridge (ort)”
  • Swedish: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Tamil: “வாலே பிரிட்ஜ்”
  • Telugu: “వ్యాలీ బ్రిడ్జి”
  • Turkish: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Urdu: “وہالے بریج”
  • Volapük: “Whaley Bridge”
  • Welsh: “Whaley Bridge”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Whaley Bridge”. Photo: Peter Barr, CC BY-SA 2.0.