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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 […]

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High Peak Trail

May 2, 2017 Katie Jobling

Regular followers of my walks will no doubt have noticed that I always try to design the walk around a convenient pub. This walk is no exception and can almost be considered a pub crawl. It passes the doors of two and, more to the point, starts and finishes at a walker (and dog) friendly […]

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Kedleston Hall

March 30, 2017 Steve Orme

Before Kedleston Hall reopened this year, Brian Spencer went along to look at the conservation work carried out over the winter by its present owners, the National Trust. In the mid 1700s Sir Nathaniel Curzon employed the up and coming young architect Robert Adam to design and build Kedleston Hall, his first major commission. What […]

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Deserted Villages

March 30, 2017 BrianSpencer

Up and down the land the remains of abandoned villages can only be recognised by a comment on an Ordnance Survey map. There are around 3000 sites of such places up and down the country where the words Medieval Village in Gothic type with the words ‘site of’ in brackets underneath record all that is […]

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Around Errwood and the Goyt Valley

November 24, 2016 BrianSpencer

When the A5004 Buxton/Whaley Bridge road reaches the top of Long Hill, a minor side road on the left, runs steeply downhill across the moors to reach Errwood Reservoir dam. Beyond the reservoir, the road forks, one climbing to the right, steeply uphill towards Rainow following the line of a possible Roman road, but certainly […]

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Exploring New Mills

July 17, 2016 Katie Jobling

The end of the last ice age about 10,000 years ago saw massive floods careering down what became the Sett and Goyt valleys. The power generated by the force of billions of gallons of flood water carved a deep gorge, around which the town of New Mills now stands. This water was a heaven-sent opportunity […]

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Derbyshire’s Homegrown Cricketing Heros

July 4, 2016 Alistair Plant

IDEALLY, county cricket’s trophy winners are saluted by an ecstatic home crowd or by a full house at Lord’s. Four of Derbyshire’s five major honours fit this category: the NatWest and Benson and Hedges finals of 1981 and 1993, the Sunday League title clinched at Derby in 1990 and promotion and the Second Division championship […]

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Walk Around Froggatt Edge

May 25, 2016 BrianSpencer

This is a walk full of contrasts and interest. Starting near the mouth of the longest and still used railway tunnel in the Peak District, it passes some of the most natural woodland in the region and also the one-time home of two priests martyred for their beliefs. Partly wooded valley strolling then follows, and […]

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A Walk around Riber & Dethick

February 2, 2016 BrianSpencer

The façade of Riber Castle stands proud, high above Matlock, despite the vicissitudes of weather that has been thrown at it for over 160 years. Built of local stone, on a hillside 850 feet above sea level by John Smedley in the 1850s, who intended it to be the culminating feature of his hydropathic establishments […]

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A Walk through Codnor and Ironville

January 2, 2016 BrianSpencer

In my recent winter warmer walk I mentioned about being puzzled by the strange tower-like pit head of Brittain Pit near Midland Railway’s Swanwick Junction. As there is winding machinery apparently attached to the tower, it seemed an odd way to access the mine workings beneath. I mentioned this to a friend who readily explained […]