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Walk Derbyshire – A Hike Through Dovedale & Beyond

October 2, 2024 VickyP

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 Walk Between Monyash & Flagg

April 2, 2024 VickyP

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 – Fernilee & The Goyt Valley

January 2, 2024 Alistair Plant

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 – The Four Villages Walk – Brassington, Ballidon, Parwich & Bradbourne

April 26, 2022 Alistair Plant

I am indebted to Amber Valley Group of the Ramblers Association, as it is they who first planned this interesting walk. Despite their good work, especially in producing the excellent leaflet I picked up way back in 2005, regrettably the leaflet is now out of print, but luckily I came across a rather dog-eared copy […]

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Walk Derbyshire – Tideswell, Miller’s Dale and Litton

May 1, 2018 VickyP

The history of the Peak District is writ large on this walk. Starting way back in time when volcanoes spewed out their lavas, the walk enters one of the loveliest dales in the White Peak, but it was where orphaned children were unable to enjoy its delights. Climbing out of the dale, the way is […]

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Derbyshire Walk – Tissington

April 5, 2018 VickyP

I had visions of Michael Fish, the man whose forecast about there being no danger of hurricanes, went as his Scots forebears would have put it; ‘gone aft a’gley’. In my case it was a completely wrong interpretation of the forecast. According to a weather map in the Guardian a day or so before the […]