Rushton Spencer – Flash
Walk to Lud’s Church in the Staffordshire Peak District from Rushton Spencer to Flash, Britian’s highest village, along the River Dane valley. Continue reading Rushton Spencer – Flash
Category: Arts and Heritage Destinations
Coleshill – Meriden
Walk from Coleshill, a north Warwickshire market town via Maxstoke, site of impressive unusually well preserved medieval priory remains, to Meriden starts from Coleshill Parkway Station. Continue reading Coleshill – Meriden
Rugby – Lutterworth
Walk from Rugby to Lutterworth famed for its connections via St. Mary’s church to the 14th Century radical theologian John Wycliffe (father of Lollardism), and its rare, well preserved late medieval doom painting. Continue reading Rugby – Lutterworth
Kington – Almeley
Walk from Kington in nothern Herefordshire south across gently hilly countryside to Almeley, the home village of John Oldcastle, early 15th Century war hero, rebel baron and Lollard heretic imortalised as Shakespeare’s Falstaff. Continue reading Kington – Almeley
Ashbourne – Ilam Park
Walk from the Derbyshire market town of Ashbourne to the picturesque, deeply gothic, Ilam Park in the Staffordshire Peak District situated on the River Manifold near where it joins the River Dove. Continue reading Ashbourne – Ilam Park
Youlgreave – Tideswell
Walk in the heart of Derbyshire’s White Peak from Youlgreave to Tideswell, taking a long route avoiding the River Wye via Laithkill Dale, Monyash and Miller’s Dale. Continue reading Youlgreave – Tideswell
Bakewell – Miller’s Dale
Walk in the heart of Derbyshire’s White Peak from Bakewell to Miller’s Dale, taking a long route avoiding the River Wye via Laithkill Dale, Monyash and Flagg. Continue reading Bakewell – Miller’s Dale
Matlock – Youlgreave
Walk from Matlock Railway Station along the Limestone Way long distance footpath, up onto the limestone plateau, to Youlgreave a large former lead mining village, now a popular daytripping destinition. Continue reading Matlock – Youlgreave
Tideswell – Castleton
Walk across the northernmost part of the Peak District’s limestone country to Castleton home of the imposingly sited Peveril Castle which looks out into Derbyshire’s northern gritstone highlands. Continue reading Tideswell – Castleton
Kidsgrove – Biddulph
Walk from Kidsgrove to Biddulph via Mow Cop the village in two counties (Staffordshire and Cheshire) that stands high up on a gritstone ridge overlooked by the famed Mow Cop Castle folly. Continue reading Kidsgrove – Biddulph