A limestone valley in the Peak District, with steep wooded sides and strange rock formations such as Lion's Head Rock and Ilam Rock along the River Dove. Cross the famous stepping stones near the southern end and climb Thorpe Cloud for views down the dale.
The walk along the valley floor to Milldale is easy and about three miles. Come early in summer, as the car park at Dovedale fills.
A Palladian mansion with some of the finest interiors by Robert Adam, built in the 1760s for the Curzon family.
Britain's first national park, between Manchester and Sheffield, with gritstone edges, moorland and limestone dales.
A wonderfully crooked Tudor manor house of black and white timber framing, surrounded by a moat.
"Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall": an Elizabethan prodigy house built in the 1590s for Bess of Hardwick, one of the richest women in England, who…
A grand house with an Italianate front set in a huge deer park on the edge of the Peak District.
The "un-stately home": a Baroque mansion where the reclusive Harpur Crewe family hoarded everything and changed little for over a century.
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