While we know the central and western parts of the Yorkshire Dales, the eastern edges alongside the Vale of York...
While we know the central and western parts of the Yorkshire Dales, the eastern edges alongside the Vale of York...
Recently it has become almost fashionable for major cities to bring back trams to their streets. Some like say Manchester,...
Although it’s a while since I waved a hot glue gun in anger, I’m confident I could give craft queen...
It was 2005 when Thornbridge Brewery, in Derbyshire, started producing one of the UK’s first craft ales. There are now...
So often one can awake from a reverie in the corner seat of a railway carriage when the train stops...
The large, attractive village of South Wingfield no longer relies on mining coal, or producing knitted fabrics for its industries,...
More and more restaurants and cafés are opening their doors to canine customers and Derby even has a fancy bakery...
When Brian Spencer went on a Rhine cruise, little did he realise that the high point of the trip was,...
Allestree’s ancient village – the only part of what is now a huge amorphous suburb really worth dawdling round –...
Taste Derbyshire’s Amanda Volley discovered, buying your groceries down on the farm makes for a deliciously different shopping experience and...
by Steve Belasco Former newspaper photographer and Derby resident Steve Belasco resettled to the beautiful county of Dorset many years...

by Brian Spencer A quick look at the Ordnance Survey 1:25000 scale map of the White Peak shows that the...

Hardstoft and Astwith lie atop a pair of west-east ridges, with the Dawley stream rising in between and running down...

by Brian Spencer “What we see today is basically the unaltered fortified manor house developed between the late 12th century,...

by Brian Spencer It is wrong to suggest that the Industrial Revolution began in and around the Derwent Valley, but...
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