Thorpe, Derbyshire

Thorpe
Thorpe Cloud viewed from near Ilam church.
Thorpe Location within Derbyshire
Population	183 (2011)
OS grid reference	SK156503
District	Derbyshire Dales
Shire county	Derbyshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ASHBOURNE
Postcode district	DE6
Police	Derbyshire
Fire	Derbyshire
Ambulance	East Midlands

Thorpe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire; it is on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border, on the east bank of the River Dove, about four miles north of Ashbourne. The population of the civil parish as at the 2011 census was 183.^[1]

Thorpe is at the southern end of the Peak District National Park almost at the foot of Thorpe Cloud, and is used by some visitors as a base for exploring Dovedale and the Manifold Valley.^{[citation needed]} The Limestone Way long-distance bridleway passes through Thorpe,^[2] as does the Peak District Boundary Walk.^[3]

The Dovedale Dash, a 4¾ mile cross-country running race held annually each November, was first organised here in 1953.

It formerly had a railway station, Thorpe Cloud railway station, served by the LNWR Ashbourne to Buxton branch line, which linked with the Cromford and High Peak Railway at Parsley Hay. This former trackbed now forms the long distance Tissington Trail cycle and footpath trail.

See also

• Listed buildings in Thorpe, Derbyshire

References

1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
2. OL24 White Peak area (Map). 1:25000. Outdoor Leisure. Ordnance Survey. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
3. McCloy, Andrew (2017). Peak District Boundary Walk: 190 Miles Around the Edge of the National Park. Friends of the Peak District. ISBN 978-1909461536.

External links

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