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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 – A Walk From Pentrich to Crich & Back

November 1, 2023 Alistair Plant

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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Walk Derbyshire – Along Lover’s Walk – Ilam

August 30, 2023 Alistair Plant

The popular village and National Trust property of Ilam and its hall, are based on a Saxon settlement, later expanded in Victorian times. In its early days it was where the early Celtic Christian missionary St Bertram baptised his flock, using a well on the slopes of Bunster Hill to the north of the village […]

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Walk Derbyshire – Exploring Shipley Country Park

May 2, 2023 Alistair Plant

In 1086 when Duke William of Normandy’s monks were compiling the Domesday Book in order to record the value or otherwise, of the conquerors’ ‘new country’, in listing the wealth of lands in the north Midlands, they recorded details of a section of countryside close to what is now called Ilkeston which was a private […]

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Walk Derbyshire – A Walk Above Matlock

March 28, 2023 Alistair Plant

by Rambler I don’t think I have ever written about a walk where the instructions needed to mention street names, but as this walk involves the use of streets dating back to Matlock’s origins as a spa town, it will be helpful if I name the handful of them necessary, in order to reach the […]

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Walk Derbyshire – A Walk to the Bull Ring at Snitterton

February 2, 2023 Alistair Plant

By Rambler Before I begin my description of this walk, I must put in an explanation of what I mean by Bull Ring. First and foremost I have no intensions of sending walkers all the way down the A38 in order to walk round Birmingham’s busy Bull Ring commercial district. The bull ring (notice the […]

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Walk Derbyshire – Toad’s Mouth, Carl Wark & The Upper Reach of Burbage Brook

October 25, 2022 Alistair Plant

There are many enigmatic remains throughout the Peak District; stone circles, cairns and burial mounds were left by people who did not tell us who they were. Carl Wark the focal point of this walk is one such relic, but we have no way of telling if it was Iron Age or post-Roman, but it […]

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Walk Derbyshire – Osmaston Park

June 1, 2022 Alistair Plant

The A52 Derby to Ashbourne road passes through some of the gentlest rural countryside in Derbyshire. Tiny villages little changed in centuries sit around junctions of minor roads that wander pleasantly between both ploughed fields and pasture. This walk skirts three of them, one barely bigger than a hamlet; starting at Osmaston, the largest, it […]

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Walk Derbyshire – A Walk from Grin Low & Buxton Country Park

November 27, 2021 Alistair Plant

There are not many walks claiming to start downhill, but this one does (although the height lost must be regained at the end, but nothing is perfect, is it?) The walk starts from the car park accessing Solomon’s Temple before dropping down to the centre of Buxton and its Pavilion Gardens, returning by way of […]

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Walk Derbyshire – Walking from Golden Valley to Codnor Castle

August 26, 2021 Alistair Plant

Here is a walk through history – from medieval times through the industrial revolution to the present day. Starting at the quaintly named Golden Valley, it passes the monument to a Victorian ironmaster and civil engineer, before crossing farmland slowly recovering from the depredation of open-cast coal mining in order. From here farm lanes reach […]