Places to visit
Bakewell - Monday open air market
Chatswoth House - gardens,estate, children,s farm and playground, garden centre
Haddon Hall
Matlock Bath - Gulliver's Kingdom and Heights of Abraham
Carsington Water - bike hire and watersports
Peak Rail - steam trains from Rowsley to Matlock
Monsal Trail - walking and cycle hire
Crich Tramway Museum
Castleton Caves
Tissington and High Peak trails - walking and cycle hire
Alton Towers
Chestnut Centre, Chapel en le Frith - otter and owl sanctuary
Manifold Trail
Hardwick Hall
Eyam - the plague village
Curber Edge - climbing
Peak Wildlife Park
Bakewell Swimming pool
Matlock- Arc Leisure Centre
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Beautiful Countryside:
Monsal Dale
Lathkil Dale
Bradford Dale
Limestone Way
Miller's Dale
Ladybower, Howden and Derwent resevoirs
Shopping:
Bakewell
Matlock
Buxton
Rowsley - Peak Village
Cromford-Masson Mills
Chesterfield
Sheffield
Ashbourne
Entertainment:
Cinema - Chesterfield, Sheffield, Derby
Theatre - Buxton, Derby, Chesterfield, Sheffield
Heritage:
Sir Richard Arkwright's mills at Cromford - the birthplace of the industrial revolution
Middleton Top and Lea Wood pumping stations
High Peak Junction
Cromford canal - the first of it's kind built to serve the new cotton mills
Caudwells Mill - working watermill and craft centre