Places to explore near Dove Holes StationDove Holes

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

0.7 km W

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

3.6 km E · spans 6 counties

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

4.8 km S · Derbyshire

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

5.3 km SW

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

6.1 km SW

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

6.7 km S

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

7.1 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.

7.2 km NW

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

7.6 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.

7.6 km NE

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

7.7 km N · spans 8 counties

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

7.8 km NE

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

7.9 km NE

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

8 km NE

Deep limestone dale where the Wye squeezes between crags, crossed by stepping stones beneath overhanging cliffs.

8.1 km SE

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

8.3 km E · Derbyshire

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

8.6 km NE

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

8.7 km NE

Norman keep perched above Castleton and Cave Dale.

8.7 km NE

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

8.8 km NE · Derbyshire

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

9.1 km NE · Derbyshire

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

9.5 km N

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Derbyshire.

3.7 km NE

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

4.5 km E · Derbyshire & Staffordshire

A National Nature Reserve in Derbyshire.

4.5 km E

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Derbyshire.

4.8 km S

A National Trust place in Derbyshire.

5 km NW

A National Trust place in Derbyshire.

6.1 km N

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

7.1 km NW · Greater Manchester, Derbyshire & Cheshire

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Derbyshire.

7.5 km NE