Places to explore near Chapel-en-le-Frith StationChapel en le Frith

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

0.9 km S

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

4.3 km NE · spans 6 counties

Wooded reservoir valley west of Buxton, with the ruins of Errwood Hall and moorland walks up to Shining Tor.

4.7 km NW

The largest surviving inland canal port in the country, a scheduled monument where the Peak Forest Canal met the tramway down from the limestone quarries.

4.9 km NW

Elegant spa town of Georgian crescents and a domed Opera House, England's highest market town, built on its warm mineral spring.

5.9 km S · Derbyshire

Twenty-three acres of Victorian park around a domed pavilion of 1871.

6.2 km S

Two-million-year-old limestone cavern on the edge of Buxton, with a source of the River Wye and rare 'poached-egg' stalactites.

7 km S

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

7.1 km N · spans 8 counties

Victorian fortified tower on Grin Low above Buxton, built as a folly on a Bronze Age burial mound with wide-ranging views.

7.7 km S

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

8.3 km NE

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

8.5 km NE

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

8.6 km N

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

8.7 km NE

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

9 km E

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

9 km E

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

9.1 km NE · Derbyshire

Palladian mansion and moorland deer park.

9.7 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.

9.8 km E

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

9.9 km E

Norman keep perched above Castleton and Cave Dale.

9.9 km E

A National Trust place in Derbyshire.

2.6 km NW

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Derbyshire.

4.4 km NE

Climbing out of Manchester's fringe to Whaley Bridge and Bugsworth Basin, once the transhipment point for Peak limestone.

4.8 km NW · Greater Manchester, Derbyshire & Cheshire

A National Trust place in Derbyshire.

5.9 km NE

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Derbyshire.

6.5 km S

Through the White Peak's dales and plateau pastures from Castleton to Rocester on the Staffordshire border.

6.7 km E · Derbyshire & Staffordshire

A National Nature Reserve in Derbyshire.

6.7 km E

A National Trust place in Derbyshire.

7.1 km N