5 miles (8km): easy riverside walking along two attractive dales, linked by an interesting village street. RECOMMENDED MAP: Ordnance Survey...
5 miles (8km): easy riverside walking along two attractive dales, linked by an interesting village street. RECOMMENDED MAP: Ordnance Survey...
3miles (4,8km): easy/moderate walking. Two short climbs on easy gradients RECOMMENDED MAP: Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale, Outdoor Leisure map Sheet...
When Country Images magazine was first launched in 1994 we were pleased to be able to include walks from ‘not...

The car park at the Cromford end of its namesake canal is a popular starting point for at least five...
The two great houses visited on this walk are within four miles of each other as the crow flies, but...
It is hard to believe that the ever constant bustle of Derby’s traffic is barely a couple of miles away...

I have to make an apology before embarking on the text for this walk. In July I acquired a new...

Tucked away on a bend of the Manifold river, Ilam Hall village was built in the 1820s on the instructions...

Winster is a haphazard cluster of seventeenth and eighteenth- century houses linked by narrow hillside alleys or ginnels as they...

This walk, around the parkland of Elvaston Castle, is one of my occasional excursions from some of Derbyshire’s grand houses. ...

An all-day, free party to celebrate Sadler Gate returns to Derby this summer after last year’s event attracted hundreds of...

Derby Book Festival welcomes Children’s Laureate, Frank Cottrell Boyce, to their annual Meet the Author event for primary schools next...

St. Peter’s Church, Derbyshire, DE56 1EB Saturday 27th June 2026 Join Derbyshire’s No.1 brass band, Derwent Brass, for a spectacular...

Francis Rossi’s ‘Songbook: Quo – Past, Present, Future’ tour is coming to Derby on Sunday 4th April 2027. Due to...

The Cathedral Quarter Hotel, a Grade II listed landmark in Derby, has opened its diary for couples dreaming of tying...
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