Buxton's Nightlife
Buxton’s nightlife is centred around the theatres and bars of the lower town and the pubs and clubs lining the Market Place in Higher Buxton.
Taxi companies can be found on our useful information page here and see the Pubs and Bars listing in Food & Drink pages.
Please drink responsibly!
Buxton Opera House
The Theatre in the Hills – one of Britain’s leading provincial theatres
Other Evening Activities
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Pub Quizzes
- Wednesdays from 7pm – The Tap House, The Old Courthouse, George Street, SK17 6AY
- Wednesdays (monthly on 3rd) from 8pm – The Vault, 2-4 High Street, SK17 6EU
- Thursdays from 7.30pm – Swan Inn, 40 High Street, SK17 6HB
- Thursdays from 8pm – Great Rocks Social Club, School Road, Peak Dale, SK17 8AJ
- Thursdays (monthly on last) from 9pm – The Old Sun Inn, 33 High Street, SK17 6HA
- Sundays (monthly on 2nd) from 3pm – family quiz, Frog on the Bine, 9 Cavendish Circus, SK17 6AT
- Sundays from 4pm – The New Inn, 2-3 Market Place, SK17 6EB
- Sundays from 7.30pm – The Parks Inn, 2 Burlow Road, Harpur Hill, SK17 9JD
- Sundays from 8pm – The Cheshire Cheese, 37-39 High Street, SK17 6HA
Comedy Nights
- Buxton Buzz Comedy Club – 1st Friday of the month at the Pavilion Arts Centre. Book through the Buxton Opera House Box Office
- The Comedy Village – occasionally at Trackside (Buxton Brewery), Staden Lane, SK17 9RZ
Food & Drink Nights
- Cocktail Club – last Friday of the month at The Forest Distillery, Cat & Fiddle, Buxton Road, Macclesfield Forest, SK11 0AR
Games Nights
- Mondays (fortnightly) – board games with High Peak Board Games Club, The Cheshire Cheese, 37-39 High Street, SK17 6HA
- Tuesdays – chess club, RedWillow, 1 Cavendish Circus, SK17 6AT
- Tuesdays – Bingo, The Swan Inn, 40 High Street, SK17 6HB
Open Mic
- Mondays (spoken word) – 2nd/3rd of the month, Buxton Spoken Words at Buxton Brewery Cellar Bar, The Old Courthouse, George Street, SK17 6AY
- Wednesdays – 1st/3rd of the month, Club Acoustic Open Session at Buxton Working Men’s Club, 15 Lightwood Rd, SK17 7BJ
- Wednesdays – 2nd/4th of the month, Bryn’s Open Mic Night at the Old Sun Inn, 33 High Street, SK17 6HA
- Thursdays – at the Queen’s Head, High Street
Karaoke
- Thursdays from 8.30pm – Miltons Tap, 63 Spring Gardens, SK17 8BJ
- Sundays (fortnightly) – Level 2, 12 Scarsdale Place, SK17 6EF
- occasionally – The Vault, 2-4 High Street, SK17 6EU
- occasionally – The Railway Inn – Bridge Street, SK17 6BS
Nightclubs
- Coco –
- Level 2 – 12 Scarsdale Place, SK17 6EF
- The Vault – 2-4 High St, SK17 6EU
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