Above: The smallest of the surviving Grey Ladies is marked on the OS map and now stands in a nearby wall with Robin Hood’s Stride on the horizon. Lying close to Robin Hood’s Stride on Harthill Moor, between the villages of Elton and Birchover, The Grey...
Above: Rowtor Rocks stand behind Birchover’s Druid Inn. The longest walk featured on this website – 14 miles from Bakewell to Robin Hood’s Stride – passes a number of historical sites, including Rowtor Rocks on the outskirts of Birchover, next...
Above: The crucifixion carving was vandalised in the past and is now protected by iron railings. Also known as Cratcliff Hermitage, the hermit’s cave lies close to both Robin Hood’s Stride and the Grey Ladies Stone Circle, and is within walking distance of...
Above: Thirst House Cave lies beside the footpath crossing Deep Dale, just southwest of King Sterndale. Fissures in the limestone rock of the White Peak were ideal places for our ancient ancestors to shelter from both the weather and the many wild animals that once...
Above: An 18th century etching of Cressbrook Mill with Cressbrook Hall and Cressbrook village on the hills behind. (Image courtesy of Alan Roberts.) Cressbrook lies beside the Rive Wye about half a mile east of Litton. John Baker was first to develop the site –...
Above: George Cruikshank’s original illustration showing Oliver Twist asking for second helpings, inset against an 1828 etching of the mill in ruins held in Buxton Museum. Today, Litton Mill is a large building divided into attractive apartments set in tranquil...
