Stretton, along with Measham and Appleby Parva (for the lost houses at which see Country Images December 2019 and October...
Stretton, along with Measham and Appleby Parva (for the lost houses at which see Country Images December 2019 and October...
I think I am right in saying that Willington House must rank as Derbyshire’s most recent lost house. At any...
It is entirely through the thorough researches undertaken by Gladwyn Turbutt that we have a good, comprehensive history of this...
It is astonishing how many country houses and estates were lost to Derbyshire in the boundary adjustments of 1888 and...
‘On the west side of the Mill Stream is a good house, built by Mr. Beardsley – on the side...
Like Norton, about which I wrote last year, Hazelbarrow – part of Norton in my opinion, but according to Historic...
As you proceed out of Matlock going north you will pass on your right the end of Dimple Road, which...
When Mick Stanley and I were researching the first edition of The Derbyshire Country House around 1980 our attention was...
For any reader who missed my description of Greenhill Hall, I ought to repeat that although Norton is today a...
Well informed readers might be tempted to say, on seeing the subject of this article, that Measham is not in...

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

The electric bicycle market is changing rapidly. Only a few years ago most people wouldn’t have considered buying an electric...

Brian Spencer visits one of the industrial revolution’s longest lasting major relics Gouged out by the last ice age over...

Just over 50 years since the legendary Brian Clough and Peter Taylor handed in their resignations at Derby County, fans...

by Brian Spencer Carlisle’s Crown and Mitre Hotel was our base for our visit to Cumbria with Slacks Travel. Overlooking...