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Idridgehay

Summary

Idridgehay is a village in the civil parish of Idridgehay and Alton, in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England.

Idridgehay
St James's Church
Idridgehay is located in Derbyshire
Idridgehay
Idridgehay
Location within Derbyshire
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
List of places
UK
England
Derbyshire
53°02′10″N 01°34′25″W / 53.03611°N 1.57361°W / 53.03611; -1.57361
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The population of this parish at the 2011 census was 275.[1]

Geography edit

Idridgehay lies south of the town Wirksworth west of the town of Belper in the valley of the River Ecclesbourne. Idridgehay Green is immediately to its west and the hamlet of Ireton Wood a mile to its south.

Transport edit

The village lies on the B5023 road that connects Wirksworth and Duffield. However the main bus service, route 6.1 operated by Trentbarton, is between Matlock and Belper. Idridgehay railway station (re-opened in 2008) is on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, a community-owned and locally managed heritage railway venture having reopened and operate the railway between those towns.[2]

Buildings edit

The parish church, St James, was designed by Henry Isaac Stevens and consecrated in 1845.[3]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
  2. ^ Ecclesbourne Valley Railway
  3. ^ Guide to Derbyshire and the Peak District

External links edit

  Media related to Idridgehay at Wikimedia Commons

  • Photo of Parish Church
  • Brief description of village