Walks from Buxton station
8 listed hills have a summit within 8 km of the platform at Buxton — the closest is Combs Head at 2.7 km, the highest Shining Tor at 559 m. Distances are straight lines, not routes: this page tells you a car-free day is possible here, and the planning is still yours.
- Station code
- BUX
- Grid reference
- SK059737
- Coordinates
- 53.26072, -1.91286
- Locality
- Buxton
- Operator
- Northern Trains
- Entries & exits
- 381,872 · #1,010 of 2,589
- Hills in reach
- 8
Passenger figure is the ORR estimate of all entries and exits, April 2024 to March 2025 — a measure of how busy (or wonderfully quiet) the station is, not of train frequency.
About Buxton station
Buxton station serves the Peak District town of Buxton in Derbyshire and is the terminus of the Buxton line, 25¾ miles south-east of Manchester Piccadilly. It is managed and served by Northern Trains, and recorded a usage of 381,872 in the year from April 2024 to March 2025.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Buxton railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0). Coordinates and the passenger figure come from NaPTAN and the ORR, not from Wikipedia.
The 8 hills within 8 km
Every hill from our dataset for which Buxton is one of the 3 nearest stations. Follow a name for the full record — heights, prominence, access rights, live summit weather and daylight.
| # | Hill | Height | Classifications | From station | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Combs Head | 503 m | Dewey | 2.7 km | NW |
| 2 | Black Edge | 506.7 m | Dewey | 3.4 km | N |
| 3 | Axe Edge Moor | 551 m | Dewey | 3.9 km | SW |
| 4 | Cheeks Hill (boundary) | 518.9 m | Historic County TopCurrent County/UA Top | 5.1 km | SW |
| 5 | Shining Tor | 559 m | DeweyCurrent County/UA TopMarilyn+1 | 6.4 km | W |
| 6 | Whetstone Ridge | 547 m | Dewey | 6.4 km | SW |
| 7 | Cats Tor | 522 m | Dewey | 6.8 km | W |
| 8 | Oliver Hill | 513 m | Dewey | 6.9 km | SW |
A hill 8 km away in a straight line can be a much longer day on the ground — and on rural lines the last train home leaves early and some stations are request stops with a handful of services a day. Check live times and facilities for Buxton before you commit, plan the route on a proper map, and give the daylight planner your real finish time.
Hill data from the Database of British & Irish Hills v18.3 (CC BY 4.0). Station position from NaPTAN (Department for Transport, OGL v3.0); passenger estimates from the Office of Rail and Road (OGL v3.0). Distances and bearings computed by OpenFell, summit to platform.
Long-distance paths from this station
2 waymarked long-distance routes pass within 2 km of the station — a made line to follow out of the door, or a way to link this station to the next one down the line.
| Route | Total length | From station |
|---|---|---|
| Midshires Way | 364 km | passes the station |
| Dane Valley Way | 78 km | passes the station |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the station computed by OpenFell.
Daylight here today
- Sunrise
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- Sunset
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- Daylight
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for the station. Walking to a timetable means walking to the light: set your turnaround with the daylight safety planner.
Plan the day
- Walking-time calculator — Naismith with terrain and fitness corrections.
- Access checker — what the land around here allows.
- Kit-list generator — packed for the forecast, not for habit.
- Buxton on National Rail — live departures, facilities, engineering work.
- OS Maps · Google Maps