Hill forts · East Midlands
Creswell Crags
Creswell Crags — limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Nearest railway station
- Creswell · 1.3 km
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
Creswell Crags is a hill fort in the United Kingdom. Heritage designation: scheduled monument. Wikidata describes it as: "limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England". Coordinates: 53.2612°, -1.1979°.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Creswell Crags SSSI
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Creswell Crags is an enclosed limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England, near the villages of Creswell and Whitwell. The cliffs in the ravine contain several caves that were occupied by Neanderthals and modern humans during the Last Glacial Period, between around 60,000 and 10,000 years ago. The caves contain Upper Palaeolithic cave art, the northernmost cave art in Europe with other Palaeolithic art objects having also been found in the caverns. The caves contain occupation layers with evidence of flint tools including those of the Neanderthal-made Mousterian, and the modern human-made Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician, Gravettian, and the eponymous Creswellian cultures.
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Background
Architecture
Creswell Crags first applied for World Heritage Site status in 1986, but was unsuccessful. Since then further research and development has been carried out and, in 2011, it was again put forward for consideration. In 2012 it was added to the United Kingdom's 'tentative list' – an essential prerequisite to formal nomination, evaluation and potential inscription as a World Heritage Site. The Tentative List identifies the universal outstanding value of Creswell Crags as being:<blockquote>
Visiting
The site is open to the public and has a visitor centre with a small museum of objects associated with the caves, including a cave hyena model. There is a cafe in the visitor centre.
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- Coordinates
- 53.2612, -1.1979
- County
- Derbyshire
- District
- Bolsover
- Parish
- Hodthorpe and Belph
- Postcode
- S80 3LH
- Parliamentary constituency
- Bolsover
- Nearest railway station
- Creswell — 1.3 km
- Official site
- www.creswell-crags.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q2580424 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Creswell Crags (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Caves Creswell Crags - geograph.org.uk - 90873.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Creswell Crags?
- Creswell Crags is in Derbyshire, the East Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode S80 3LH), in the parish of Hodthorpe and Belph.
- Is Creswell Crags a listed building?
- Creswell Crags is officially recognised as scheduled monument listed.
- Is Creswell Crags a protected site?
- Yes — Creswell Crags is part of the Creswell Crags SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- Is Creswell Crags free to visit?
- Yes, Creswell Crags is free to enter.
- How do I get to Creswell Crags?
- The nearest railway station is Creswell, about 1.3 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode S80 3LH.