Places to explore near Bamford StationBamford

Gritstone edge high above Bamford, giving one of the most celebrated views over Ladybower Reservoir and the Hope Valley.

2.1 km N

Dark Peak village below Stanage Edge, with Little John's reputed grave and Charlotte Bronte connections that fed Jane Eyre.

2.3 km SE · Derbyshire

A heated 1936 open-air pool in the Hope Valley, with its original bandstand beside the water and open all year.

2.7 km SE

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

3.8 km E

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

5.3 km N

Hope Valley village ringed by four show caves and the ruined Peveril Castle, the only place Blue John stone is mined.

5.7 km W · Derbyshire

Dry limestone gorge cut into the hill behind Castleton, overlooked by the keep of Peveril Castle.

5.8 km W

Long known as the Devil's Arse, it has the largest cave entrance in Britain and once sheltered a whole rope-makers' village.

5.9 km W

Norman keep perched above Castleton and Cave Dale.

5.9 km W

Compact White Peak village around a green with a duck pond, medieval cross and bull ring, one of the prettiest in the Peak.

6 km S · Derbyshire

The gritstone 'plague village' that quarantined itself in 1665-66, its cottages still marked with the names of the dead.

6.2 km S · Derbyshire

Flooded former lead mine at the foot of Winnats Pass, reached by an underground boat trip to a vast Bottomless Pit.

6.8 km W

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

6.9 km W

Wooded gritstone edge above Froggatt village, running north from Curbar with climbing crags and moorland views.

7.2 km SE

Show cave prized for its stalactites and richest Blue John veins, still worked for a few hundred kilos of the stone each year.

7.3 km W

Natural show cave in the hillside above Castleton, one of the only places on earth where the banded Blue John stone is mined.

7.7 km W

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

8.2 km W

The middle of three Derwent Valley reservoirs in the Peak District, its stone dam a Dambusters training ground below Bleaklow.

8.9 km NW

The southern start of the Pennine Way, tucked in a green valley below the brooding plateau of Kinder Scout.

8.9 km W · Derbyshire

The first and toughest of them all — 268 miles along England's rocky spine from the Peak to the Cheviots.

9.2 km W · spans 8 counties

Gritstone edge sheltering the village below, with sweeping views over the Derwent Valley and a scatter of abandoned millstones.

9.3 km SE

The Pennines for horse and bike — old packhorse trails and drovers' roads.

9.3 km SW · spans 6 counties

Large upland village built on wool and lead, its 14th-century church so grand it is called the 'Cathedral of the Peak'.

9.3 km SW · Derbyshire

Ladybower to the Trent down the Derbyshire Derwent, through the mill valley where the factory system began.

0.3 km SW · Derbyshire

Community-owned village pub in Bamford, combining bar, cafe and post office beside the River Derwent.

1.2 km N

A National Trust place in Derbyshire.

2.3 km NE

Old packhorse-trail inn in Hathersage, a handy base below Stanage Edge for climbers and walkers.

2.7 km E

Award-winning family-run country inn in the Hope Valley, named for the old packhorse bridge below Ladybower Dam.

2.7 km N

A country park in Derbyshire.

3.4 km SE

A National Trust place in Derbyshire.

4.2 km SE

A National Trust place in Derbyshire.

5.4 km S

Rambling 17th-century coaching inn in Castleton, well placed for the show caves and the ridge to Mam Tor.

5.6 km W