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 planned to
visit in Derbyshire.
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On the first 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 attracts many visitors, as did this
one in Buxton.
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In Buxton's Pavilion Gardens the map here is artistically 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 the Winnats Pass limestone gorge; and a chance to admire
this fantastic view of the Derbyshire countryside.
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Our guided tour of the Blue John Cavern started with a steep stepped
descent into the cavern and lasted around 40 minutes, during which we
admired the many attractively lit rock formations.
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On the second day of our Peak District holiday we sat outside the stone
cottage and checked the guide book prior to our drive to Manchester for
the Granada Studios Coronation Street tour.
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At Granada Studios we enjoyed the helpful guide's presentation and
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 very
one seen in the soap which we were able to wander along. Of
course the buildings are just frontage with interior scenes shot in the
studio.
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The Rovers Return is the place where most of the interactions (read:
affairs, rows, fights, business deals) take place in Coronation
Street. As you can see, it was 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! After the...
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...rain eased we ventured out for a local walk from Litton and enjoyed
some lovely Peak District countryside, here looking towards Cressbrook.
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Mike's unfortunate encounter with a rather large moth flying down
his T-shirt during our picnic lunch prompted some rather odd behavior
when he tried to kick down a dry stone wall! Ouch!
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The guide book called this a seasonal river, but it was dry (summer
season) so we didn't really need to use the stepping stones provided,
but hey, what the heck, let's use them anyway!
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Back towards Litton and the Peak District holiday cottage then, and a
quick shower and change before visiting the pub for an evening meal at
the Red Lion.
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Peak District and Derbyshire web links to the places
we've visited are on our tourist
resources 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. Oh our poor feet!
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