It is exactly seventy years since the late Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England county guides were first published by...
It is exactly seventy years since the late Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England county guides were first published by...
Maybe Durham folk have collecting genes in their make-up, but it led three individuals to create two unique museums, one...
The museum was founded in 1982 following a great deal of background work, by Councillor Enid Hattersley, mother of Lord...
A few years ago while I was exploring the Hebrides, I stood on top of a small west facing hill....
Some of Derbyshire’s finest and most sequestered countryside may be found west of Derby itself, although it is countryside well...
It is hard to imagine that the picturesque village of Winster with its 700 or so inhabitants was once a...
In this feature, Brian Spencer takes a nostalgic visit to one of the strangest geological features in Britain. Currently out...
Even though prehistoric travellers following the Portway from the Trent to Mam Tor would have passed through the area, modern...
In the 1930s, countryside author Alison Uttley wrote a series of short essays based on her childhood experiences in and...
The change in season brings with it many delights and yet there are some areas that on occasion turn from...

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...