Idridgehay

Idridgehay
Idridgehay
	St James's Church
	Idridgehay Location within Derbyshire
Civil parish	Idridgehay and Alton;
District	Amber Valley;
Shire county	Derbyshire;
Region	East Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
	List of places UK England Derbyshire 53°02′10″N 01°34′25″W / 53.03611°N 1.57361°W

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

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The population of this parish at the 2011 census was 275.^[1]

Geography

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

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

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

References

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

External links

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[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

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