UK Tourist & Leisure Attractions

Here's our lovely little stone cottage for the week in Litton and conveniently located near to Buxton and all the places we were to visit in Derbyshire.
 

On the 1st day we went into Buxton, a spa town famous for well dressing, and the lovely Pavilion Gardens.  That's Belinda off down the main street.

Well dressings take place in most villages in the Peak District National Park during the summer and attract many visitors, as did this one in Buxton.
 

Here's Belinda in Buxton's Pavilion Gardens, the map is constructed out of flowers.  The gardens had a large lake for boating and a miniature railway trundling around it.  Please visit our tourist links page for Peak District websites you'll probably find useful if planning a visit to Derbyshire.

In the afternoon we moved on to the Blue John Cavern near Edale and Castleton in Winnats Pass limestone gorge.  Belinda is admiring the view just before visiting the gift shop!
 

Our guided tour of the Blue John Cavern started with a stepped descent and lasted around 40 minutes, during which we admired many well lit rock formations.

Here's Mike outside the cottage on the 2nd day of our holiday checking the guide book prior to our drive to Manchester for the Granada Studios Coronation Street tour.

At Granada Studios we had a helpful guide take us round and we learnt all about TV programme production.  Here we saw how the Coronation Street soap is produced and edited.
 

This is the famous Weatherfield Coronation Street cobbles, the actual one seen in the soap which we were able to wander along.  Of course the buildings are just frontage.
 

Belinda outside The Rovers Return, the place where most of the interactions (affairs, rows) take place in Coronation Street.  As you can see, it's rather swamped by tourists!

After breakfast on day 3 we wrote our postcards in the Peak District cottage, Belinda promptly took a shine to one of Mike's cards and tried to pinch it!

Later we did a local walk from Litton and enjoyed some lovely Peak District countryside which Belinda's admiring here, looking towards Cressbrook.
 

Mike tries to kick down a dry stone wall.  During our picnic lunch earlier he had an unfortunate encounter with a rather large moth which flew down his T shirt!
 

The guide book called this a seasonal river, but it was dry so we didn't really need to use the stepping stones, but hey, what the heck, let's use them anyway!

Back towards Litton then, just time to get showered and changed before visiting the local pub for an evening meal, at the Red Lion.

Peak District and Derbyshire links to the places we've visited are on our tourist links page.

Now please proceed to the next page of our Peak District holiday where we visit Alton Towers and do some more walks - visiting three ships around Baslow and another through Monsal Dale.  Our poor feet!