Peak District, Derbyshire Holiday July 1999 - page 1
For our 1999 holiday we booked a cosy cottage in a
small village called Litton in the Peak District National Park in
Derbyshire. From there we visited Buxton, the Blue John Cavern
near Edale and did the Coronation Street tour in Manchester. And
in a car-free day we enjoyed a local walk in the Derbyshire Dales from
the holiday cottage.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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's Peak District.
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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!
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Our guided tour of the Blue John Cavern started with a steep stepped
descent and lasted around 40 minutes, during which we admired the many
well lit rock formations.
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Here's Mike outside the cottage on the 2nd day of our Peak District
holiday checking the guide book prior to our drive to Manchester for
the Granada Studios Coronation Street tour.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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Later we did a local walk from Litton and enjoyed some lovely Peak
District countryside which Belinda's admiring here, looking towards
Cressbrook.
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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!
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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!
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Back towards Litton then, just time to get showered and changed before
visiting the local pub for an evening meal at the Red Lion.
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Peak District and Derbyshire links to the places we've
visited are on our tourist links page.
Note: Coronation Street is no longer open to the
public as a visitor attraction.
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!
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