The Best Attractions In Baslow

Aerial film of the Peak District including many popular sites and some hidden gems.

A compilation of aerial footage of the Peak District. I've put this film together from footage filmed over the last year. Some of the shots are from just outside the Peak District but are worthy of including in this film.

The Gilpin's Lake House

Walks in the Peak District - Introduction

Step by Step walks in the Peak District shows the walk and where to turn at each stage. This gives you a good idea of how to find your way around when you do the walk.
This introduction shows the Peak District in context and some of the amazing views you can see.

A DVD can be purchased if required.


This video was shot over 10 years ago so some of the terrain will have changed but the walk is essentially the same. All walks are unndertaken at your own risk, please check up to date access rights. Copyright David Andrew and Activideo Communications

Cromford - Peak District Villages

presents Cromford. The village of Cromford is built snugly amongst fine rock scenery and sits astride the main A6 Derby road at the southern end of Matlock Dale deep in the Derwent Valley.

The village owes its historical significance entirely to the River Derwent, for it takes its name from a bend in the river where the water was shallow enough to be forded by the old Derby to Chesterfield road, the original old English `Crune-ford` meaning `crooked-ford`. Two thousand years ago the Romans knew the crossing and shipped pigs of lead mined in the local hills down-river to the Trent from here.

Cromford is also known as the `cradle` or `birthplace` of the Industrial Revolution for this was where Richard Arkwright (1732-1792), perhaps Britain's first ever `industrial tycoon` and known as `The Father of the Factory System` chose to build the world's first water-powered cotton mill in 1771.

The character of the village was completely transformed in the early years of the 19th century when Scarthin Nick was blasted through with dynamite to make way for what later became the A6, thus annexing the Arkwright industrial mill complex on the east side of the main Derby road and the Market Place and village at the bottom of the hill which climbs steeply westward towards Wirksworth, on the other.

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Peak District Accommodation - Alison House Hotel



Masson Mills



The Greyhound Hotel - Cromford Hotels



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Bonsall - Peak District Villages

presents Bonsall.

The ancient village of Bonsall sits handsomely amidst the limestone hills two miles south west of Matlock and about the same distance from the A6 at Cromford, from where it is best approached along the A5012 which winds steadily up the Via Gellia valley on its way to Grangemill, and eventually to Buxton. The road to Bonsall climbs northward from beside the Via Gellia Mill and up the steep Clatterway before levelling out at the Victorian gothic Fountain beside the village recreation area, currently part of a village regeneration scheme.

The Dale branches to the left whilst the main road continues up Yeoman Street to the Market Cross in the centre of the village, and then twists and turns up High Street towards Uppertown before winding it's way over Bonsall Moor towards Winster.

Bonsall owes it's name to an Anglian settler named Bunt, and `Bunteshalle' ,- a `nook of land belonging to Bunt' was a thriving community long before it was mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1087.

The village owes it's size and relative prosperity almost exclusively to the numerous industries which once flourished beside the Bonsall Brook, and to the now defunct lead mining industry which two centuries ago provided the area's main employment.




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Elton - Peak District Villages

presents Elton. The White Peak village of Elton, recorded in the Domesday Book as Eltune, and thus signifying its Saxon origins, stands 950 feet above sea-level on an east-west plateau three quarters of the way up a bleak north facing hillside.

This stone-built peakland village bears testimony to an unusual geological feature which can be plainly seen in the architecture of its old buildings, many of them built in the 17th & 18th centuries, - for Elton stands on what geologists call a 'strata boundary'; and remarkably the buildings on the north side of Main Street are constructed of gritstone, whilst those on the opposite south-side of the street are built of limestone!

Unlike many of its neighbours Elton has not fallen prey to the tourist trade and remains completely unspoiled by the modern trappings of rampant commercialism. The only souvenirs that tourists are likely to take away with them are chilblains and sore feet, for Elton is walking country,- and there is no tourist or souvenir shop, in fact there are no shops at all!

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Masson Mills between Matlock Bath and Cromford in Derbyshire.

Aerial footage of Masson Mills in Derbyshire.

Edale - Peak District Villages

presents Edale . Edale is in fact the common name given to the whole valley. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Aidele, but the settlements along the valley bottom are now called Booths which is a term that came along in the 16th and 17th centuries when foresters and boothmen built shelters for their cattle and sheep. A booth was an enclosure rented from the Crown where a herdsman or settler could protect his stock from wolves. The shelters expanded to permanent dwellings and now form the hamlets of Over Booth, Nether Booth, Barber Booth, Lady Booth, Grindsbrook Booth and Ollerbrook Booth. Grindsbrook Booth is the main settlement of Edale where the church was built.
In 1894 a further form of access to Edale was achieved with the opening of the Dore and Chinley railway line which is a wonderful way to travel through the National Park from Sheffield to Manchester or Stockport.

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Old Hall Hotel


The Old Nags Head - Edale



The Rambler Inn - Edale






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A Day Out at Chatsworth House and Edensor, Peak District National Park

A day out at Chatsworth House, home to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire in Peak District National Park. We also visited St Peter’s Church, a beautiful church at the heart of Edensor village (pronounced 'Enza').

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The Flying Childers Restaurant

This April we were delighted to launch the new Flying Childers restaurant featuring the Wedgwood afternoon tea.

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