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Walk Derbyshire – Ashover & Littlemoor via Ashover Rock

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Walk Derbyshire – Matlock to Bonsall

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Walk Derbyshire – Calton Lees, Chatsworth to Rowsley

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Walk Derbyshire – Alport to Middleton

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Walk Derbyshire – A Pleasant Walk from Pilsley to Hassop

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Walk Derbyshire – A Walk Along the Monsal Trail

February 28, 2023 Alistair Plant

During the height of the railway mania tracks were being laid often with little or no purpose, throughout the land. While there were already lines running up the east and west coasts, linking London to Edinburgh and Glasgow, with cross country connections to Birmingham and other major industrial areas across industrial Midlands, Manchester and 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 – In the footsteps of Florence Nightingale – The Lady with the Lamp

December 30, 2022 Alistair Plant

Following her sterling work amongst wounded soldiers in the Crimea, Florence Nightingale returned to England. After spending a few days in London, she boarded the London to Manchester train at St Pancras Station. Leaving it unannounced at the tiny halt serving Whatstandwell, she set off to walk quietly along the hillside road, climbing steadily to […]

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Walk Derbyshire – Following the Magpie Sough

December 2, 2022 Alistair Plant

By Rambler ‘Sough’ is the lead miner’s term for the method of draining water from a mine. One of the most attractive roads through the Peak District, the one between Bakewell and the A515 Buxton/Ashbourne road takes some beating. Around a mile beyond the cut-off for Monyash, to the right two small chimneys indicate 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 – Around Kedleston, Woods & Parkland

September 29, 2022 Alistair Plant

Opening my latest copy of WALK DERBYSHIRE the seventh no less, I realised that the first walk in the guide took in much of Kedleston’s parkland, but less than half of its beautiful woods and plantations. As enjoyable as the walk maybe, it would be a great pity to exclude the extensive woodlands covering North […]

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Walk Derbyshire – Bretton Clough

September 2, 2022 Alistair Plant

Starting from a popular pub, the Barrel Inn, which is the focal point of the hamlet of Bretton, a small hamlet high on Eyam Edge, the walk enjoys delightful views over the surrounding countryside. Wooded valleys, one of which, Bretton Clough, is the focal point of this walk. By tradition Bretton Clough is where the […]

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Walk Derbyshire – Historic Deepdale – A walk back into history

July 26, 2022 Alistair Plant

Deepdale you may ask, for the name doesn’t appear on any Ordnance Survey map? Now better known as Dale Abbey, the village was once called Depedale, then Deepdale and eventually the modern name, Dale Abbey in remembrance of the abbey that flourished here from 1162 until Henry VIII’s quarrel with Rome in 1536. A lonely […]

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Walk Derbyshire – The Roaches

June 29, 2022 Alistair Plant

As a few members of my brood have a nought at the end of their birthdates this year, we decided to celebrate by holding a family get-together. The venue decided upon was the Mermaid Inn, an old drovers’ pub high on Morridge Ridge above Leek. Due to the change in drinking habits following the ‘drink/drive’ […]

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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 […]