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Photo of Calke Abbey, a Grade II* registered house & garden near Melbourne, Derbyshire, central England.

Calke Abbey© Ruth Sharville / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Places to explore near Willington StationWillington

26 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group.

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Worth the tripnational icons and local highlights within reach

Photo of Repton, a village in Derbyshire, central England.Highlight

Repton

Village

Former capital of Anglo-Saxon Mercia, its church hiding a rare 8th-century crypt where Mercian kings were buried.

2 km SE · Derbyshire

Photo of Calke Abbey, a Grade II* registered house & garden near Melbourne, Derbyshire, central England.Highlight

Calke Abbey

House & garden near Melbourne

The National Trust's un-restored country house, kept in the peeling, cluttered state it was found in, with an old deer park around it

8.9 km SE

Photo of Melbourne, a village in Derbyshire, central England.Highlight

Melbourne

Village

Attractive Georgian market town in south Derbyshire, home to Melbourne Hall and a great Norman parish church.

9.7 km E · Derbyshire

Photo of Derby Cathedral, a church in Derbyshire, central England.Highlight

Derby Cathedral

Church near Derby

Cathedral on Iron Gate with England's second-tallest medieval tower, Robert Bakewell's wrought ironwork and the tomb of Bess of Hardwick.

9.8 km NE

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

Photo of the Trent & Mersey Canal, a 93-mile canal running from Preston Brook to Shardlow, England.

Trent & Mersey Canal

Canal

Brindley's Grand Trunk of 1777 — Potteries bottle kilns, the Anderton Boat Lift and the long darkness of Harecastle Tunnel.

0.1 km N · Staffordshire, Cheshire & Derbyshire

Photo along the National Forest Way, a 75-mile long-distance path running from National Memorial Arboretum to Beacon Hill Country Park, central England.

National Forest Way

Long-distance path

The National Memorial Arboretum to Beacon Hill through the young woods of the National Forest, planted across the old coalfield.

5.3 km SE · Leicestershire, Derbyshire & Staffordshire

Scaddows Farm & Vineyard

Vineyard near Ticknall

A pick-your-own fruit farm and vineyard in the south Derbyshire countryside near Ticknall, with relaxed tours of the vines.

7.2 km SE

Photo of Ye Olde Dog & Partridge, a pub near Tutbury, Staffordshire, central England.

Ye Olde Dog & Partridge

Pub near Tutbury

Timber-framed former coaching inn on Tutbury's high street, a landmark hostelry in the shadow of the castle.

8.2 km W

Photo of St Mary's Priory Church, Tutbury, a church in Staffordshire, central England.

St Mary's Priory Church, Tutbury

Church near Tutbury

Surviving nave of a Benedictine priory, with a richly carved Norman west doorway reckoned among the best Romanesque work in the country.

8.4 km W

Photo of Derby Arboretum, a Grade II* registered house & garden in Derbyshire, central England.

Derby Arboretum

House & garden near Derby

The country's first park built purely for public use, laid out by J.C. Loudon in 1840.

8.9 km NE

Tutbury

Village

Historic village above the River Dove below the ruins of Tutbury Castle, where Mary, Queen of Scots was held, with a great Norman priory church at its heart.

9.4 km W · Staffordshire

Photo along the Derwent Valley Heritage Way, a 55-mile long-distance path running from Ladybower Reservoir to Shardlow, central England.

Derwent Valley Heritage Way

Long-distance path

Ladybower to the Trent down the Derbyshire Derwent, through the mill valley where the factory system began.

9.8 km NE · Derbyshire

Everything else within 10 km (14) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.