Chrome Hill, Peak District

Name: Chrome Hill
Address: Peak District, United Kingdom

#34 among attractions in Peak District

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Chrome Hill is a limestone reef knoll in Derbyshire, England, in the upper Dove valley beside the border with Staffordshire. It is adjacent to Parkhouse Hill, another reef knoll. ()

Elevation: 1394 ftCoordinates: 53°12'11"N, 1°53'45"W

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Peak District United Kingdom

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Chrome Hill – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Buxton Opera House, Poole's Cavern, The Slopes, High Peak Trail.

3.9 miN
Opera, Concerts and shows, Music venue
Buxton Opera House, Buxton
100 min walk • Buxton Opera House is in The Square, Buxton, Derbyshire, England. It is a 902-seat opera house that hosts the annual Buxton Festival and, from 1994 to 2013, the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, among others, as well as pantomime at Christmas, musicals and other entertainments year-round.
3.5 miN
Natural attraction, National park, Park
Poole's Cavern, Buxton
89 min walk • Poole's Cavern or Poole's Hole is a two-million-year-old natural limestone cave on the edge of Buxton in the Peak District, in the county of Derbyshire, England. Pooles Cavern forms part of the Wye system, and has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
3.9 miN
Park
The Slopes, Buxton
99 min walk • The Slopes is a Grade-II-listed public park in Buxton, Derbyshire in England. The area was laid out by landscape architect Jeffry Wyatville in 1811 for William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, as pleasure grounds for the guests of The Crescent hotel to promenade.
2.5 miE
Hiking, Hiking trail
High Peak Trail
65 min walk • The High Peak Trail is a 17-mile trail for walkers, cyclists and horse riders in the Peak District of England.
1 miNW
Mountain
High Edge, Peak District
26 min walk • High Edge is a limestone hill overlooking Harpur Hill, Buxton in Derbyshire, in the Peak District. The summit is 472 metres above sea level. The lower hilltop is marked by a cairn. Following the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, this hilltop area became "Open Access" land for the public.
3.9 miN
Hot springs
St Ann's Well, Buxton
100 min walk • St Ann's Well is an ancient warm natural spring in Buxton, Derbyshire in England. The drinking well is located at the foot of The Slopes and opposite the Crescent hotel and the Old Hall Hotel.
0.6 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Parkhouse Hill, Peak District
16 min walk • Parkhouse Hill is a small but distinctive hill in the Peak District National Park in the English county of Derbyshire. It lies on the north side of the River Dove, close to the border with Staffordshire.
3.5 miSE
Forts and castles
Pilsbury Castle, Peak District
89 min walk • Pilsbury Castle was a Norman castle in Derbyshire near the present-day village of Pilsbury, overlooking the River Dove.
3.8 miN
History museum, Museum, Natural history museum
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Buxton
97 min walk • Buxton Museum and Art Gallery focuses its collection on history, geology and archaeology primarily from the Peak District and Derbyshire. The museum is located at Terrace Road, Buxton, England. The museum opens Tuesday to Saturday all year round and from Easter to the end of September is also open on Sunday and Bank Holiday afternoons.
2 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
High Wheeldon, Peak District
51 min walk • High Wheeldon is a distinctive dome-shaped hill near the Staffordshire border in Derbyshire, in the Peak District valley of Upper Dovedale, overlooking the villages of Earl Sterndale, Longnor and Crowdecote.
2.7 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Oliver Hill, Peak District
69 min walk • Oliver Hill is a hill, 513 metres high, in the Peak District in the county of Staffordshire in England. It is a treeless summit surrounded by farmland in the southern part of the Peak District about 6 kilometres south-southwest of the town of Buxton.