This little ditty was taught to us by our Scottish geography teacher many years ago, and because of it, I...
This little ditty was taught to us by our Scottish geography teacher many years ago, and because of it, I...
Brian Spencer investigates the worst military disaster to occur on British Soil. The Ordnance Survey map for Derby and Burton...
Derbyshire has done more than any county in England to convert its disused railways into traffic-free greenways for cycling and...
Bonsall is tucked away in an upland bowl, high above the Derwent Valley and seems a place where time has...
In late 1914 the world was threatened by war. Shackleton volunteered to cancel his plans for an expedition and placed...
It seemed incredible to us that a settlement containing perhaps the finest miners’ cottages in the Midlands should have been...
As we wandered round sunny Makeney, we wondered how Pevsner could ever have forgotten to include the place, for although...
Hidden away in a deeply wooded ravine, Lumsdale is unknown to many who live nearby, but as Brian Spencer discovered,...
Like Hope, Hathersage and Chapel-en-le-Frith, Glossop was once a vast parish of over 50,000 acres, subsequently subdivided, covering the hills...
There have to be places that Sir Niklaus Pevsner omitted simply because the buildings there were not really worthy of...

With Martins World Travel My last month’s article concentrated on the rich animal and bird life of this unique area...

by Maxwell & Carole Craven Having basked in the remoteness and sequestered lanes of Harehill and Muselane, we were much...

by Brian Spencer Pennine Way walkers almost at the southern end of their epic trek from Edale to Kirk Yetholm...

by Maxwell Craven People often quite reasonably assume that Derby’s Market Place was the original historic core of the borough,...
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