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Walk Derbyshire – Youlgreave & Its Two Dales

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Walk Derbyshire – Through Elton’s Gritstone Countryside

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Walk Derbyshire – Pentrich to Crich

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Walk Derbyshire – Walking Above the Canal – Cromford

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Walk Derbyshire – Chatsworth to Haddon Hall

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Walk Derbyshire – Youlgreave & Its Two Dales

July 1, 2019 VickyP

5 miles (8km): easy riverside walking along two attractive dales, linked by an interesting village street. RECOMMENDED MAP: Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale Outdoor Leisure Series; Sheet 24, The Peak District, White Peak Area. PUBLIC TRANSPORT: Hulley’s 171 hourly service from Bakewell (no Sunday service). CAR PARKING: laybys at roadside beyond River Lathkill bridge outside Alport. […]

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Walk Derbyshire – Through Elton’s Gritstone Countryside

June 4, 2019 VickyP

3miles (4,8km): easy/moderate walking. Two short climbs on easy gradients RECOMMENDED MAP: Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale, Outdoor Leisure map Sheet 2, The White Peak. BUS SERVICES: Hulleys’ 172 runs at 38 minutes past the hour from Matlock, Monday to Saturday. CAR PARKING: on the village main street – please make sure you do not interfere […]

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Walk Derbyshire – Pentrich to Crich

March 26, 2019 VickyP

When Country Images magazine was first launched in 1994 we were pleased to be able to include walks from ‘not so’ Old Perce. Over the following months he traversed the Amber valley and provided delightful walks that, as all walks should, start and finish at the local pub. With many village pubs closing that has […]

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Walk Derbyshire – Walking Above the Canal – Cromford

February 27, 2019 VickyP

The car park at the Cromford end of its namesake canal is a popular starting point for at least five walks to my reckoning. Most weekends and days in between, well-clad walkers will be congregating, busily pulling on their boots and at the same time, chatting to their friends. This walk starts, like all the […]

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Walk Derbyshire – Chatsworth to Haddon Hall

February 5, 2019 VickyP

The two great houses visited on this walk are within four miles of each other as the crow flies, but each has made a unique impression on the face of the Peak District. Chatsworth, ancestral home of the Dukes of Devonshire has developed following the fashions of house-building nobles. Additions have been made since its […]

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Walk Derbyshire – Kedleston’s Glorious Parkland

January 3, 2019 VickyP

It is hard to believe that the ever constant bustle of Derby’s traffic is barely a couple of miles away at its closest point. Kedleston’s park is an oasis of tranquility, with now naturalised groves and plantations, set around hundreds of acres of green-sward and lakes. All this overlooks winding ponds separated by tinkling waterfalls, […]

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Walk Derbyshire – A Winter Warmer Around the Longshaw Estate

November 26, 2018 VickyP

I have to make an apology before embarking on the text for this walk. In July I acquired a new hip, this was after upwards of ten years trying to ignore an ever growing problem. Fortunately I had the sense to build up a stock-pile of walks, which kept Garry and Alistair happy at Images […]

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Walk Derbyshire – A walk around Ilam Hall

September 25, 2018 VickyP

Tucked away on a bend of the Manifold river, Ilam Hall village was built in the 1820s on the instructions of Jesse Watts-Russell. The original Victorian houses of the village echo the fairy-tale image of the hall, built at a time when skilled labour was cheap. It was also a time when tenants could be […]

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Walk Derbyshire – Around Winster

July 24, 2018 VickyP

Winster is a haphazard cluster of seventeenth and eighteenth- century houses linked by narrow hillside alleys or ginnels as they are known locally. They sit in a pattern which suited the lead miners and their families in the hey-day of this now extinguished Peak District industry. The walk follows paths once trodden by miners who, […]

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Derbyshire Walk – Elvaston Castle

June 27, 2018 VickyP

This walk, around the parkland of Elvaston Castle, is one of my occasional excursions from some of Derbyshire’s grand houses. Unfortunately it could almost be described as from one of Maxwell Craven’s ‘Lost Houses’. Financial constraints on its present owners, Derbyshire County Council, make it impossible to fund the necessary £6.1 million needed to restore […]