Matlock Bath, Derbyshire
Matlock Bath is a village in the Peak District south of Matlock midway between Buxton and Derby on the main A6 road. Set in the gorge of the river Derwent, it is a popular tourist attraction and often hundreds of bikers hit the town in the weekend summer months.
For such a small village, there are a good number of things to do. A cable car ride to the Heights of Abraham, a visit to the Peak District Lead Mining Museum, or a walk around Derwent gardens are just a few.
The A6 in the wet towards Bakewell, Derbyshire
Here we are the A6 towards Bakewell in the rain and it was wet.... The rider only passed his test in March 2011 and was not very confident in these conditions. To his credit,he did very well, by looking ahead more, gear changing more and not thinking as much about the road conditions.
RIBER CASTLE, MATLOCK. UK.
FLYING MY DJI MAVIC PRO FROM HALL LEYS PARK , MATLOCK BATH, DERBYSHIRE, UK.UP TO , RIBER CASTLE ON THE HILL.
Peak District Country Walk High Tor Heights of Abraham Matlock Bath from Starkholmes round
Our video is a guided walk in the Peak District. We start from Starkholmes and walk up to High Tor then down to Matlock. We then make our way back up the other side to Heights of Abraham and then down to Matlock Bath. We walk through Riverside Gardens before we make our way back up to Starkholmes. This is a moderate walk on good or grassy paths and tracks with some steep inclines and declines. There are a number of gates and stiles. Elevation: Approx lowest point 84m (275.6ft) approx highest point 276.60m (907.5ft) Approx 4.75 miles allow 2½ to 3 hours using OS Explorer Map OL24, The Peak District White Peak area.
Start point: Near the telephone box on the edge of the village of Starkholmes (above and to the east of Matlock Bath).
Great Fountain At Chatsworth House in UK
This is Darcy's house in the movie Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen. Located in the Derbyshire Dales on the River Derwent close to Bakewell in the Peak District, it is the seat of the Duke of Devonshire and the home of the Cavendish family since the 1500's. The gardens are fantastic. The main part of the house was built in the late 1600's.
Travel Guide My Day Trips To Matlock Bath Derbyshire UK Review
Travel Guide My Day Trips To Matlock Bath Derbyshire UK Review
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Pro's
* Some attractions to visit in the daytime
* Some enteriment at night with a range of pubs
* Some shops to choose from
* Some public transport
* Some hotel's to choose from
* Some eating places to choose from
Con's
* It can get busy
* It can be hilly
Things To Do
* Heights of Abraham
* Gulliver's Kingdom
* The Heights Of Abraham
* Sir Richard Arkwright's Masson Mills
* Spy Zone
* Matlock Bath Aquarium & Exhibitions
* Lovers Walk
* High Tor
* Matlock Bath War Memorial
* Life in a Lens Museum of Photography & Old Times
* The Grand Pavilion Theatre
* Derwent Gardens And Park
* Masson Mills Shopping Village
* Peak District Lead Mining Museum
* Matlock Bath Illuminations
Best Eating Places Cheap Eats
* Tucker Fish & Chips
* Kostas Fish Bar
Moderate Priced Eating
* The Fishpond Freehouse
Best Hotels
* New Bath Hotel and Spa
* Hodgkinson's Hotel
* The Temple
Hotel Booking Sites
* LateRooms.com
* Expedia.co.uk
* Booking.com
* Hotels.com
* TripAdvisor
* Opodo
* ebookers.com
Weather
The weather in the UK can vary from day to day. Warmer and hotter months are between April to September. Colder months with snow,sleet and rain are between October and March. You can get some humidity and pollen is highest, between June and August for hayfever suffers. You can also get rain in between, April and September.
Currency
Britain’s currency is the pound sterling (£), which is divided into 100 pence (p).
Scotland has its own pound sterling notes. These represent the same value as an English note and can be used elsewhere in Britain. The Scottish £1 note is not accepted outside Scotland.
There are lots of bureaux de change in Britain – often located inside:
• banks
• travel agents
• Post Offices
• airports
• major train stations.
It's worth shopping around to get the best deal and remember to ask how much commission is charged.
Britain’s currency is the pound sterling (£), which is divided into 100 pence (p).
Scotland has its own pound sterling notes. These represent the same value as an English note and can be used elsewhere in Britain. The Scottish £1 note is not accepted outside Scotland.
There are lots of bureaux de change in Britain – often located inside:
• banks
• travel agents
• Post Offices
• airports
• major train stations.
It's worth shopping around to get the best deal and remember to ask how much commission is charged.
Time Difference
During the winter months, Britain is on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), which is 5 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time and 10 hours behind Sydney. Western standard time is five hours behind.
From late March until late October, the clocks go forward one hour to British Summer Time (BST).
To check the correct time, contact the Speaking Clock service by dialling 123.
Weight And Measurements
Britain is officially metric, in line with the rest of Europe. However, imperial measures are still in use, especially for road distances, which are measured in miles. Imperial pints and gallons are 20 per cent larger than US measures.
Imperial to Metric
1 inch = 2.5 centimetres
1 foot = 30 centimetres
1 mile = 1.6 kilometres
1 ounce = 28 grams
1 pound = 454 grams
1 pint = 0.6 litres
1 gallon = 4.6 litres
Metric to Imperial
1 millimetre = 0.04 inch
1 centimetre = 0.4 inch
1 metre = 3 feet 3 inches
1 kilometre = 0.6 mile
1 gram = 0.04 ounce
1 kilogram = 2.2 pounds
Passport And Visas Requirements To Enter The UK
Please note: Following the recent referendum vote for the UK to leave the European Union (EU), there are currently no changes in the way people travel to Britain. The following guidelines still apply:
If you're planning an adventure to the UK, depending on your nationality and your reason for visiting, you may need to organise a visa.
If you're an American, Canadian or Australian tourist, you'll be able to travel visa-free throughout the UK, providing you have a valid passport and your reason for visiting meets the immigration rules (link is external).
Citizens from some South American and Caribbean countries as well as Japan are also able to travel visa-free around the UK.
European Union citizens, non-EU member states of the EEA (Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland), Switzerland, and members of the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) do not need a visa to enter the UK.
If you have any further visa questions visit the official UK government website.
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Illuminated Boats at Matlock Bath, UK - Sunday 21st Oct, 2012.
Matlock Bath Illuminations feature a unique parade of illuminated and decorated boats on the River Derwent every weekend throughout September and October. Each boat carries a decorated model and as darkness falls the boats disappear into the blackness below, leaving the models apparently gliding along just above the water.
This event has a long established history dating back to 1897 -- first held to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. It was the recollections of an earlier visit to Matlock Bath, by the then Princess Victoria that inspired the Illuminations. She recalled how, when staying in Matlock Bath, she looked out of her hotel window and saw the candle lights were reflected in the River Derwent that flows through the centre of the village. The twinkling lights made a lasting impression on the young Princess.
To celebrate the Diamond Jubilee in 1897, the village was illuminated by fairy lamps and Chinese and Japanese lanterns with a torchlight procession through the village - followed by a procession of illuminated boats on the river and the limestone gorge rock face was decorated with coloured bonfires. It must have been a truly remarkable spectacle.
My video footage shows the Olympic rings lit the old fashioned way, Noddy's car, a steam train, galleon ship, King Kong on top of the Empire State Building and performing seals with a ball.
Walk along Giddy Edge above Matlock Bath
Walk along Giddy Edge above Matlock Bath in the UK's Peak District
Gravid Perch on the River Derwent, Derbyshire
Perch getting ready to spawn on the river derwent.
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Fish in Matlock river.
fish just holding themselves steady while the river flows over them.
Lilly pond in Matlock Bath March 2018
This lovely Lilly pond is in Matlock Bath just up the hill at the back of the Fish Pond Pub, its fed from a warm natural spring. this then feeds the lower pond that has the Koi carp in it opposite the Fishpond Pub.
Enjoy
Andy
Matlock Bath Illuminations and fireworks, 22.10.2016, UK
Matlock Raft Race 2018
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matlock bath koi carp
matlock bath koi carp fish
Matlock Bath Boxing day Raft Race 2018
Matlock Bath Boxing day Raft Race 2018
Path flooded alonside river Derwent Matlock,Derbyshire.AVI
Water levels rising in Matlock, Derbyshire over weekend 6th Feb 2011
Matlock to Belper in snow
Drive from Matlock to Belper in snow on a very snowy afternoon
Images of England - Derbyshire Peak District and Arbor Low
I took these pictures of parts of the Derbyshire Peak District in November 2007. This clip features a few slides of Arbor Low, a late Neolithic/early Bronze Age henge which dates from around 2500 BC. This henge's stones are lying down now, but (controversially) no holes of any substance have been found to support the idea of them ever having stood erect. Doubtless, this theory will continue to be studied and discussed. However, these uncertainties, together with this place's prehistory, conjure mystery and fascination - what was the purpose of this stone circle and its enclosing earthwork? What was in the collective mind of the ancient peoples of Derbyshire?
Arbor Low and similar places throughout Britain consumed resources - a significant diversion from local (mainly agrarian) economic activity. It's been estimated for example that the henge's construction required the removal of 4000 tons of limestone - an utterly prodigious, amazing feat nearly five thousand years ago for the ancient Britons. By contrast however, emphatically NOT for ancient Egyptians, who at almost the same time were building the Great Pyramid - an altogether more sophisticated enterprise!. How the World ebbs and flows in its ever-shifting culture and centres of power. It's hard for us today to understand big shifts in the greater timeline of our world - indeed, that Britain was almost at the Equator when Derbyshire's basically coral reef geology was being formed.
At any rate, we ask: why did these prehistoric people construct Arbor Low? What moved them? Henges, as currently defined, always have a ditch on the INSIDE of their bank, a criterion which rules out any defensive purpose, unlike late Bronze or Iron Age forts for example, with their inner ramparts and outer ditches (I shall leave counterscarps out of this for the moment!).
Moreover, Arbor Low was built to deny even the merest glimpse of what was going on inside, until one entered the outer bank. And even then, the secrets of the ritual activities, as they are now supposed, were concealed by a cove - the innermost part of the henge, hidden by the central (now fallen) stones.
For me, Arbor Low holds power, energy, and beauty. Its evocative setting tells. I wish John Betjeman, or Thomas Hardy, or even Robert Frost had given us a poem about it. And I'd be quite enthusiastic about making Arbor Low my final repose :)
Peveril Castle at Castleton features in the early slides. The closing images, aside from the very last one, are of the Dark Peak - almost treeless peat groughs on a high plateau in the Peak District's Northern extremity. Bleaklow and Kinder Scout are the named focal points here, not that you'd easily mark them out as the higher parts of the landscape. And besides, the Dark Peak is stunning in any context, easily the equal of any other landscape on Earth.
This music is Jeremy Kittel's Napkin Tune from his new album Chasing Sparks. Jeremy is an exceptional artist in my opinion. Acoustic instruments FTW :) I hope he doesn't mind my using his lovely composition here!
For more videos and other information about the Peak District please visit Let's Stay Peak District at
I hope you enjoy.
The bit of flood water Matlock