Ashford in the Water (Derbyshire)

During a recent stay in Derbyshire we decided to go on a random walk and see what we could find. We set off with some sandwiches, ready to walk miles in search of some little gem in the middle of nowhere. It turns out we didn't need to walk miles from our B&B in Bakewell; well, perhaps a couple of miles but Ashford in the Water is worth it. We'd driven past this tiny hemmed in village several times during the week we'd been in Derbyshire but it can't really be seen from the road. In fact the only reason we spotted it while walking was because my partner, an avid fisherman, spotted a bridge over some shallow water and went carp-spotting. The ...  Read the complete review

Ashford in the Water is such a little place, but it is also such a lovely place and it does warrant a review to put it on the map. ~~~WHERE IS ASHFORD? Ashford in the Water is in North Derbyshire, about a mile and a half north west of the famous village of Bakewell, on the way to Buxton. It is in the Peak District and is beside the River Wye. It is also on the route of one of the oldest track-ways in Derbyshire ~ an ancient road called the Portway (which went from Nottingham to Castleton). Ashford in the Water means Ford by the Ash trees and it was because of the river crossing that the village was founded in the first place. We generally ...  Read the complete review