Traditional county: Derbyshire · District / Borough: Derbyshire Dales · Region: East Midlands
Explore Abney, Derbyshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Abney map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
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| Place | Abney |
| Traditional County | Derbyshire |
| District / Borough | Derbyshire Dales |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.314822 |
| Longitude | -1.704432 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Abney commands a high, limestone prominence where the wind carves cold patterns across the exposed gritstone edges of the Derbyshire Dales. It lies 7.1 miles north of Bakewell (from Bakewell: bearing 350°T, OS grid SK 197 798), and is situated south of Shatton village. Within the expansive boundaries of the Peak District National Park, the terrain rises sharply toward the rounded crown of Abney Low, which watches over the surrounding pastures like a silent, geological sentinel. The landscape here feels ancient and austere, defined by the sharp drop of Abney Clough where water pulls at the earth in thin, silvery threads after a heavy rain. Beneath the soil, the deep, rhythmic pulse of the Abney & Bretton Cloughs SSSI supports a wild, unkempt flora that thrives in the moisture of the deep, shadowed gullies. Stone walls, built by hands long forgotten, lace the hillsides into a grid of grey, fractured geometry that holds the land against the encroaching moor. The light in Abney possesses a singular, piercing clarity, washing the limestone buildings in a pale, spectral brilliance that seems to draw the very essence of the sky down to the earth. Here, the air is thin and sharp, carrying the scent of damp peat and the distant, lonely call of curlews wheeling over the high, open ground.
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Explore Abney, Derbyshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 53.314822, -1.704432. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |