This fascinating old house contains a wonderful collection of items from the Bakewell area, displayed to show aspects of local and social history in this part of Derbyshire.
The displays are full of memories and interest for everyone.
We attra ...
Bakewell Visitor Centre is fully accessible and ideally placed to welcome you to Bakewell and the Peak District National Park. Find out all you need to know about the National Park and surrounding area from the visitor centre staff on hand to help ...
In 2010 there is more of the house to see than ever before, with the new, more accessible route for visitors, including both new and restored spaces and views and a really spectacular range of new displays of rarely seen treasures. In addition, we ha ...
Haddon Hall is probably the finest example of a fortified medieval manor house in existence. Present-day Haddon Hall dates from the 12th Century to the early 17th Century, whereupon it lay dormant for over two hundred years from 1700 until the 1920s, ...
Magpie Mine stands one third of a mile south of the village of Sheldon, from where it can be seen standing darkly silhouetted against the skyline. It is about 1050 feet above sea level. Footpaths approach it both from Sheldon and the Monyash to Ashfo ...
Britain's first national park, established in 1951, is visited by people from all over the world. National Parks are beautiful protected areas with spectacular and often dramatic expanses of countryside, they provide us with space to breath, think, ...
Would you like to learn the secrets of the Bakewell Pudding Shop's Bakehouse?
The Old Original Bakewell Pudding Shop now has special Bakehouse Tours. Your club, group or society can watch the Pudding Maker's art in action. You'll even get the opp ...