Peak District area guides

Peak District area guides including Bakewell, Buxton, Ashbourne, Castleton, Hartington, Eyam, Tideswell, Matlock & Matlock Bath,Hathersage, Chesterfield andmore being added every week or two. Please contact us at info@peakdistrict-nationalpark.com if you'd like us to add something about your village or town and we'll do our best to help, exchange links or promote your favourite place!

Area Guides, locations available:

Area Guides, selected listings:

Flagg - tiny village near Buxton
Home of Flagg races - the small village of Flagg lies in a gentle bowl high on the limestone plateau...
Cromford - birthplace of the Industrial revolution
The story of Cromford is inextricably linked with that of Richard Arkwright, the semi-literate genius...
Little Longstone 2010 visitor information guide
The linear village of Little Longstone lies immediately to the west of Great Longstone and just to the...
Ashbourne visitor guide
ASHBOURNE - Georgian elegance in the southern Peak! Elegant Ashbourne is primarily a market town. It...
Tansley visitor guide
Tansley village lies 2 miles east of Matlock on the A615 Matlock to Alfreton road. The village is built...
Bakewell visitor guide 2010
BAKEWELL – ancient 'capital of the Peak'. World famous puddings, the area’s premier agricultural show...
Great Longstone 2010 visitor guide
The attractive and unspoilt village of Great Longstone sits peacefully at the heart of the White Peak...
Castleton visitor guide
Castleton in the High Peak of Derbyshire - affectionately known as the 'Gem of the Peak' ...world famous...
Dovedale
Beautiful Dovedale is loved and visited by a million plus visitors a year - mainly to cross the newly...
Baslow visitor guide
Standing at the northern gates to Chatsworth, Baslow has been closely linked with the affairs of the...
Hope 2010 visitor guide and tourist information
Hope - the capital of the Hope Valley hosts a fine and renowned country show and has much to offer the...
Kinder Trespass
2012 will mark the 80th anniversary of what has been called as the most crucial event in the century...
Chelmorton 6 mile walk
This route follows a concessionary path to the The Neolithic Chambered Cairn at Five Wells from the historic...
Matlock and Matlock Bath visitor guide
With a wealth of attractions, excellent accommodation, restaurants, fish and chips shops, amusement arcades...
Hartington visitor guide
Hartington, a prosperous looking village standing at the northern end of the Dove Valley, still has the...
Bamford - gateway to the Dams
Many people pass through Bamford without noticing it, on their way to the attractions of the Upper Derwent...
Foolow - 2010 guide
Foolow, a small, nucleated village clustered around its village pond or ‘mere’ on the White Peak limestone...
Youlgrave guide - tourist information, attractions, history and more...
2009 visitor guide to 'Youlgrave' (as the locals prefer to spell it). Roly Smith reveals all about this...
Grindleford, the linear village above the Derwent.
Grindleford is a linear village strung out above the River Derwent between Eyam Moor and Froggatt Edge...
Eyam visitor guide
The 'plague' village of Eyam (pronounced 'eem') has its place in the folklore of England being the village...
Tideswell visitor guide
Tideswell. Or 'Tidsa' as it known locally - and 'Cathedral town of the Peak'...with some justification...
Edale Visitor Guide
Officially the beginning (or end) of the Pennine Way, Edale attracts the hardiest of walkers, situated...
Monyash village guide
This small, attractive village at the head of beautiful Lathkill Dale, which is part of the Derbyshire...
Peak Forest - Gretna Green of the Peak
Once known because of a quirk of ecclesiastical law as “the Greta Green of the Peak,” Peak Forest is...
Taddington village guide
Taddington is one of the highest villages in the country, standing in a little hollow in the White Peak...
Chesterfield visitor guide
Chesterfield, the historic market town just to the East of the Peak District National Park is most famous...
Alstonefield - attractive Staffordshire village in the White Peak
Between the Manifold and the Dove. Alstonefield is a charmingly unspoiled village, standing at 900 feet...
Peak District National Park - an introduction by Roly Smith
An introduction to the Peak District by the president of the national Outdoor Writers' and Photographers...
Sheldon village near Bakewell
Magpie's village - the linear Sheldon, near Bakewell......
Chelmorton - the lofty, linear village near Buxton
'Chelly' - the linear village near Taddington, enjoys a good pub and plenty of lung stretching walks...
Elton - charming White Peak village
Elton is a charming small village set high on the White Peak limestone plateau and surrounded by the...
Bakewell Show
Bakewell's strong connection with agriculture is emphasised every August when the town hosts the largest...
Cressbrook
Tucked away in the steep-sided and winding valley of the River Wye just upstream from Monsal Head and...
Bradwell - the ice-cream capital of the Peak District
Bradwell – usually abbreviated in the way of Peak District villages to “Bradder” – is a charming little...
Ashford-in-the-Water guide
Not exactly in the water, but certainly on the River Wye, Ashford is a candidate for the Peak’s prettiest...
Litton near Tideswell
Litton, a small village 1,000ft (300m) up on the limestone plateau, is in many ways a typical White Peak...
Hathersage visitor guide
Hathersage - an introduction to the 'home of Litle John' by Roly Smith......
Parish church of St Anne in Baslow
Beautiful location near the Chatsworth estate, unusual clockface and flanked by two excellent pubs!...
Buxton visitor guide
BUXTON in Derbyshire – famous for its scenery, its architecture and its water – and now poised for a...
Winster 2010 Visitor Guide
HOME OF THE MORRIS MEN - Winster boasts one of the finest street's of houses anywhere in the Peak District...
The Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Chelmorton
England's highest church with a spire. The beautifully situated and well-protected parish church of St...
Great Hucklow guide
Great Hucklow village guide by Roly Smith. This former lead mining village tucked under Hucklow Edge...
Tissington 2010 Visitor and Tourist Information Guide
For many visitors, Tissington is the perfect White Peak village: neat stone cottages fronting onto broad...
Potted history of the Peak
The Victorian art critic and pioneer conservationist John Ruskin described Derbyshire as “a lovely child...
Longnor visitor and tourist information guide
It’s the proud boast of Longnor, a former market town crowning the ridge which separates the Upper Dove...
Parwich village guide
Parwich is a pretty limestone village on the edge of the White Peak plateau which spreads around its...
Bakewell pudding - the delicious pudding whose origins are...?
The origin and recipe for the delicious Bakewell pudding (no, not the one with the cherry on top a la...