Chesterfield Museum and Art GalleryFive Pits TrailGrassmoor Country ParkHardwick HallLinacre ReservoirsRevolution HouseStainsby Mill: Hardwick Estate
The museum tells the story of Chesterfield from its origin as a Roman fort to the present day. It is located in the Stephenson Memorial Hall, built in 1879 as a mechanics institute, and named in honour of the town's most famous Victorian resident, ra ...
The Five Pits Trail provides an off-road surfaced route for walkers cyclists and horse riders. The Five Pits Trail is great for walkers, cyclists and horse riders. This five and half mile off-road surfaced route takes you from Grassmoor Country P ...
Much of the Grassmoor Country Park is on level ground with surfaced tracks for easier access. Unsurfaced access routes also provide links through the numerous maturing plantations of the park. Grassmoor Country Park is a haven for a wide variety o ...
One of Britain's greatest and most complete Elizabethan houses. Like a huge glass lantern, Hardwick dominates the surrounding area -- a magnificent statement of the wealth and authority of its builder, Bess of Hardwick. Designed by Robert Smythson, t ...
When exploring Linacre Reservoirs it is easy to forget that Chesterfield is only a few miles away! The information board near the ranger base is a good place to start. It shows a map of the site, with footpaths, bridleways and bike trials around t ...
The Revolution House, in the Derbyshire village of Old Whittington, three miles north of Chesterfield, takes its name from the Revolution of 1688.
Three hundred years ago, this cottage was an alehouse, the 'Cock and Pynot' ('Pynot' is a dialect wo ...
Impressive fully-functioning water-powered flour mill. With newly reconstructed 1849-50 machinery, the mill is still in full working order and gives a vivid evocation of the workplace of a 19th-century miller. Flour is ground regularly and for sale t ...
