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Walk Derbyshire – A Pleasant Walk from Pilsley to Hassop

November 27, 2024 VickyP

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Pilsley, Bakewell is a very picturesque village within the Chatsworth estate. Many of the gritstone cottages in the village are occupied by estate workers at Chatsworth. There is a lovely spacious green in the middle of the village and there are stunning views all around the village. Part of the village was built in the […]

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October 30, 2024 VickyP

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Belper is a lovely little town with many shops, restaurants and a gorgeous cinema. It is situated on the Derwent River and has a vast history. Belper is the birthplace of the factory system. Derwent Valley Mills were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2001. With Cromford Mill hosting a visitors centre to […]

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Walk Derbyshire – A Hike Through Dovedale & Beyond

October 2, 2024 VickyP

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Dovedale is one of those iconic places in Derbyshire which everyone knows about, but finding a circular route can be a little tricky. You have a few choices on this walk to either walk down to the stepping stones, have a paddle, head up to Thorpe Cloud for the views or just picnic by the […]

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Walk Derbyshire – A Wander With An Ogston View

September 9, 2024 VickyP

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This has got to be one of our favourite walks which we discovered just coming out of lockdown. It takes in the beautiful views over Ogston Reservoir. You also get a bit of height on this walk so the view down the hills at one or two points is pretty stunning. Ogston Reservoir is owned […]

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Walk Derbyshire – An Amble through Ashover

June 25, 2024 VickyP

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Set alongside the River Amber is the picturesque village of Ashover. Quaint cottages, stone houses and old pubs fill this favourite Derbyshire village of mine. It may take you a while to drive through the village as it is so pretty, with many cute cottages for you to stop and admire.  Ashover has a truly […]

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Walk Derbyshire – A Walk Through Upper Lathkill Dale

May 1, 2024 VickyP

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It was while I put the final bits and pieces to April – Monyash edition and, mentioning in the text that it starts and finishes in Monyash, it struck me that there is another of my favourites also starting from Monyash old market square.  It is only a little under four miles, but it leads […]

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Walk Derbyshire – A Walk Between Monyash & Flagg

April 2, 2024 VickyP

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If you were living in the Peak District countryside around a hundred years ago, the chances are that you would be following a dual working schedule.  Part of your working day would be tending the needs of a dairy herd and maybe carrying out a little ploughing and growing feed crops for those valuable cattle.  […]

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Walk Derbyshire – Shardlow’s Inland Port and Eighteenth Century Walk

February 6, 2024 Alistair Plant

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When the eighteenth century Duke of Bridgewater’s fiancé gave him what we might today call the push, he decided that not only was he secretly pleased to be rid of her, but to be honest, he was also bored by London, which took up too much of her time through the London Society she frequented. […]

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Walk Derbyshire – Fernilee & The Goyt Valley

January 2, 2024 Alistair Plant

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The South Manchester town of Stockport gets most of its water from two reservoirs filling the narrow upper reaches of the Goyt Valley near Buxton.  It is hard to realise that  this was a self-supporting estate with its own coal mines and small industrial estate where gun powder was made.  Errwood Hall, the central building […]

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Walk Derbyshire – A Walk From Pentrich to Crich & Back

November 1, 2023 Alistair Plant

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At the forefront of the Pentrich Rising were Jeremiah Brandreth, a 31-year-old unemployed stocking knitter who had a wife and two children; Isaac Ludlam, a bankrupt farmer who owned a small quarry where he had built up a small supply of pikes; and William Turner, a stonemason and ex-soldier.  From Pentrich this walk will take […]

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