Peak District

I've just got back from the peak district and have to recommend it highly. Travelling from London took about three hours and I stayed in Wildboarclough just near Macclesfield and Buxton. This area is simply gorgeous - the bototm part of the area is quite flat, full of rolling hills and farmland. The half we stayed in was lots of high hills which had brackern/heather and rocks on - trainers or hiking boots are one hundred percent a requirement as the best bits and view you need to put some effort into to get to! There are several good teashops and traditional pubs in the area - we were staying in the Stanley Arms and were impressed with the food; however Tishas tearooms ...

LLiving just down the M1 in Nottingham, I've taken many a trip to the Peak District National Park. It's a massive place, with too many beautiful walks to comment on - so I shall comment on the best I've come across so far - The Roaches. This fabulous ridge walk is rarely busied by families with pushchairs and suchlike, making it peaceful and nicely uncrowded, even in high season. There's a good, challenging climb up to the start of the classic walk (park just outside the Roaches Tearooms), after which you follow the ridge along , down and across some lower level ground to some woodland, where you'll eventually come across Ludd's Church (which isn't actually a building - ...

I am lucky enough to live part way up a hill on the edge of the Peak District national park. You'd think this would mean I wouldn't have to walk any further than my window to see the beauty of this fantastic area. However, the landscape contains so many diverse features that the views from Chinley Churn provide a mere glimpse of what the park has to offer. The area is divided roughly into two areas - White Peak, where the ground is more chalky, and Dark Peak over the peat moors. These two types of landscapes then contain difference within them with the Dark Peak offering areas coated with purple heather, grassland moors and peat bogs at this time of ...