‘On the west side of the Mill Stream is a good house, built by Mr. Beardsley – on the side...
Lost houses in Derbyshire
‘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...
Glapwell Hall was a rather rambling stone house of later seventeenth century date, made more rambling by Georgian and Victorian...
When I write about Derbyshire, I do tend to stick to the historic borders of the County, the land of...
About seven years ago I found myself sat next to Sir Nicholas Soames at lunch, which put me on my...
One often comes across houses – not always ancient ones – which have names carrying the suffix ‘Priory’ or similar....

A commercial cotton spinning mill until 1991 and now home to a Textile Museum, Visitor Centre, offices and meeting and...

Dinky Hooves offers private miniature Shetland pony experiences near Ashbourne, on the edge of the Peak District. Spend 90 minutes...

A Derby funeral director arranged the final farewell for English actor, Sir Alan Bates, allowed a dozen stormtroopers to walk...

Hello everyone my name is Emma Barker, and I am proud to be a finalist in Miss Derbyshire 2026, with...

Crich itself had a population hovering around 3,000 for much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, fed initially by...
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