Showing posts with label Peak Feast Cafe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peak Feast Cafe. Show all posts

Saturday, September 7, 2019

Edensor, Alport, Youlgreave, Over Haddon, Ashford in the Water, and Bakewell

I travelled to Edensor today and walked through Chatsworth Park and over Calton Pastures towards Haddon Hall.

There are a lot of pretty and unusual cottages to photograph at Edensor, and the church seems to be always open.





























I was fortunate to get a quite close-up view of the Chatsworth deer - my camera couldn't cope very well though and this was the best image of the lot.



The footpath that passes close to Haddon Hall doesn't give you a good view of the building; a much better view is obtained by climbing up the hill at the other side of the road, as I did as I walked along the footpath going to Alport.

I did manage to take a photograph of the gatehouse though as I passed by on the road.



For the first time that I can remember I walked along part of Bradford Dale from east to west and then climbed up the hill to Youlgreave. I always take a picture of this pretty bridge.




I followed the sign from the main road in the village to the Peak Feast Cafe for a pot of tea and some shortbread. There's also a charming tea garden at Over Haddon with lovely views from the terrace which I haven't managed to visit yet; I passed it today, and it is on my list.



There are no direct footpaths, or even a road from Over Haddon to Ashford in the Water so I had to go northwest across the fields and then northeast down the Kirk Dale road.







Quite often I'll finish a walk at Ashford and then catch the bus into Bakewell - I would have had over an hour to wait today and so continued the rest of the way to Bakewell, from where I caught a bus and a train back home to Doncaster.