Whitwell is a village in Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was 3,900.
Church of St Lawrence, Whitwell.
View over Whitwell
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 during the last ice age, between around 43,000 and 10,000 years ago. Its caves contain the northernmost cave art in Europe. The evidence of occupation found in the rich series of sediments that accumulated over many thousands of years is regarded as internationally unique in demonstrating how prehistoric people managed to live at the extreme northernmost limits of their territory during the Late Pleistocene period.
Caves at Creswell Crags
Church Hole Cave is home to Palaeolithic etchings.
The Ochre Horse found in 1876
A leaf-point from Creswell Crags, at Derby Museum