Things to do within 12 miles

There are many scenic walks across open moorland, over cultivated valleys, or around the wooded edges of reservoirs.

The area has many picturesque stone villages, being located near the division of the white limestone of the South, and the dark gritstone of the North. This division also creates many contrasting geographical and geological features.

• The local pub 5 minutes walk!
• Hayfield, historic Pennine village, with its 3-storey weavers' cottages.
• Kinder Scout Plateau and start of the Pennine Way at Edale. Excellent walking.
• Ladybower and Derwent Reservoirs, and Macclesfield Forest for scenic walks.
• Lyme Hall and deer park. Elizabethan Hall, where 'Pride and Prejudice' was filmed.
• Mam Tor and Castleton, with its limestone caverns and newly discovered Titan cave, medieval castle, and opportunity for hang gliding.
• Buxton - spa town, and highest English town, with its festival, Opera House, and historic Poole's Cavern also Go Ape adventure playground for the kids.
• Flash - highest village in England.
• Peak Forest for Fresh Fields donkey sanctuary.
• Chestnut Centre - otter, owl and badger sanctuary.
• Sett Valley Trail, Middlewood Way, Longdendale Valley Trail - scenic traffic-free walks or cycle hire.
• New Mills Heritage Centre, with displays/model of the local area, also the New Mills Millennium Walkway.
• Peak Forest Canal - Whaley Bridge Basin for canal boat trips, and Marple aqueduct and flight of locks.
• Bollington Discovery Centre, with cycle and canoe hire.
• Bramall Hall, and Adlington Hall - both Tudor Manors.
• Etherow Country Park, for nature walks, etc.
• Combs Reservoir - fishing available

Many local festivities, including sheep dog trials, May and Rose Queen pageants, country shows, Well Dressings. The area has many excellent antique shops.

Night time:

• Wide variety of places to eat from small country pubs to fine dining Restaurants in Derbyshire

The Opera house has a varied selection of plays, popular music and comedy.

Things to do within 25 miles

Beautiful scenery:

• The limestone valley of Dovedale.
• Gritstone crags of Longshaw Estate.
• Country Park at Teggs Nose.
• Traffic free walks and cycle hire at the High Peak, Tissington and Monsal Dale Trials.
• Carsington Water & Visitors' Centre.

Interesting villages and towns:

• Matlock, with its mining museum, stream train rides, theme park, cable car rides, caverns, and Redhouse working carriage museum, also location for filming of 'Peak Practice'.
• Eyam, the historic plague village, with nearby craft centre at Calver Bridge.
• Bakewell, home of Bakewell Pies and Puddings, and busy agricultural market town.
• Wirksworth, with its heritage centre for exhibitions and computer games, church brass rubbings and National Stone Centre for geography lovers.
• Chesterfield, the market town, famous for its crooked church spire, and Thursday flea market.
• Holmfirth, 'Last of the Summer Wine' country.
• Manchester, for Castlefield Industrial Museum, Air & Space museum, Science Museum, and cultural centre for music and theatre.

Museums:

• Arkwright's Cromford Mill - industrial village, canal, and first successful water-powered spinning mill.
• Uppermill Folk Museum
• Abbeydale 18th Century working water-powered site.
• Styal Mill, a working Georgian cotton mill.
• Macclesfield Silk Museum
• Cauldwell's Working Flour Mill.
• Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope & Visitors' Centre.

Halls & Stately Homes:

• Chatsworth house, famous home of the Dukes of Devonshire, with gardens, wood walks, farm and adventure playground.
• Haddon Hall, medieval manorial home.
• Gawsworth Hall, Tudor House, with open-air concerts.

Tatton Park and Hall - landscape history trail, farm, and children’s' playground.