Walks and treks
Dovedale
Ashbourne, Derbyshire
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 D…
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Historic sites
Hardwick Hall
Glapwell, Derbyshire
"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…
Historic sites
Calke Abbey
Melbourne, Derbyshire
The "un-stately home": a Baroque mansion where the reclusive Harpur Crewe family hoarded everything and changed little for over a century.
Historic sites
Kedleston Hall
Duffield, Derbyshire
A Palladian mansion with some of the finest interiors by Robert Adam, built in the 1760s for the Curzon family.
Walks and treks
Peak District and Mam Tor
Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire
Britain's first national park, between Manchester and Sheffield, with gritstone edges, moorland and limestone dales.