Places to explore in DerbyshireEngland · East Midlands

The 517m 'Shivering Mountain' above Castleton, an Iron Age hillfort crowning the great Hope Valley ridge walk.

A four-mile gritstone escarpment above Hathersage, the spiritual home of British rock climbing with vast views over the moors.

Flamboyant Jacobean mock-castle on a ridge.

Peak District's highest plateau, site of the Mass Trespass.

636 m

Elizabethan prodigy house, more glass than wall.

The classic view down Monsal Dale to the 1863 Headstone Viaduct — reviled by Ruskin, listed by the state, walked by everyone on the Monsal Trail.

Dramatic limestone cleft climbing out of Castleton between towering pinnacles, its name a worn form of 'wind gates'.

Dambusters crews trained over the dams and drowned villages of this Derwent Valley reservoir in the Peak District.

Britain's first national park: gritstone edges in the Dark Peak, limestone dales in the White.

1,438 km²

An Edwardian manor-house restaurant with rooms on the edge of the Peak District near Chatsworth.

Grand Devonshire seat with cascade and fountains.

Finest surviving fortified medieval manor in England.