The history of Langley, just north west of Derby on the road to Ashbourne, is complex to say the least....
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At Romeley, one gets two lost houses for the price of one. The early history of Romeley (or Romiley) in...
A great friend who is the senior caseworker for the Georgian Group, was asked by the City Council to comment...
Some castles grew from purely Norman military motte-and-bailey castles, constructed by William the Conqueror’s knights to keep a firm hold...
The stone shell of the gatehouse to site of the ancient seat of the Mackworth family is one of the...
The Glossop Hall that was demolished in 1958-59 was an unlovely house of titanic proportions, once set in a spectacular...
Spondon House was a fine Georgian mansion, in reality a secondary seat on the Locko estate of the Drury Lowes....
Until the local government reforms of 1888-1889 Derbyshire did not sit inside a single boundary; it has detached ‘islands’, mainly...
Francis Meynell (1698-1768) was a member of what was, in the early eighteenth century, a younger branch of the great...
One of my oldest friends is a great enthusiast for huge spiky Gothic Victorian country houses. He thinks Samuel...
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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,...
