I have to make an apology before embarking on the text for this walk. In July I acquired a new...
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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. ...
There are no records of any simpleton, either in Foolow or Silly Dale; both names come from Anglo Saxon English...
The history of the Peak District is writ large on this walk. Starting way back in time when volcanoes spewed...
I had visions of Michael Fish, the man whose forecast about there being no danger of hurricanes, went as his...
The dales this walk covers are within a mile or two of each other and even though they join later,...
This short walk can be fitted in with a trip exploring more of Dovedale or simply as a day out...
On a sunny weekend today’s Matlock Bath is popular with middle-aged motorcyclists whose expensive mounts line the riverside frontage. They...
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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...
