Places to explore near Sheffield

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

6.2 km W

Britain's longest country-house facade.

11.2 km NE

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

11.5 km W

The Sitwell family seat since 1625, with an Italianate garden of clipped rooms.

11.9 km SE

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

13.5 km SW

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

13.7 km SW · Derbyshire

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

14.5 km W

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

15 km SW

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

15.5 km SW

Sixty acres of Grade I gardens with a Victorian conservatory, follies and national camellia and rhododendron collections near Barnsley.

16.3 km N

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

16.4 km W

Derbyshire's largest church, known across the country for its famously twisted and leaning crooked spire.

16.4 km S

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

17.2 km SW · Derbyshire

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

18 km SW

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

18.4 km W

Cistercian ruin in a Capability Brown valley.

19.1 km E

Gateway to the Peak's northern moors, a lakeside and woodland walk below the gritstone edges west of Barnsley.

19.3 km NW

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

19.3 km SW · Derbyshire

Grand Devonshire seat with cascade and fountains.

19.4 km SW

Circular white keep that inspired Ivanhoe.

19.8 km NE

A model estate village of mismatched styles, rebuilt by the 6th Duke of Devonshire in 1839 within Chatsworth Park.

20.2 km SW · Derbyshire

Flamboyant Jacobean mock-castle on a ridge.

20.3 km SE

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

20.7 km W · Derbyshire

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

20.9 km W

Norman keep perched above Castleton and Cave Dale.

20.9 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.

21 km W

Thought to be Britain's largest landslip, over half a mile long, its gritstone towers looking like a ruined castle above remote Alport Dale.

21.5 km W

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

21.8 km W

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

21.9 km W

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

22.2 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.

22.5 km W

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

22.9 km W

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.

23 km SW

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

23 km W · spans 8 counties

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

23 km W · Derbyshire

Microbrewery and gin distillery with a shop and tasting room at Ashford-in-the-Water, brewing Peak District cask ales since 2003.

23.1 km SW

The Peak District's only true market town, straddling the Wye with a medieval bridge and the shops that gave the Bakewell pudding its name.

23.1 km SW · Derbyshire

Farm shop on the historic Welbeck estate with an award-winning butchery, part of a food-focused Nottinghamshire estate.

23.4 km SE

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

23.5 km SW · Derbyshire

Chocolate-box limestone village on the River Wye, famous for its packhorse Sheepwash Bridge and the medieval tradition of well dressing.

23.6 km SW · Derbyshire

Finest surviving fortified medieval manor in England.

23.8 km SW

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

24.2 km SW · spans 6 counties

A rambling Peak-edge village free house brewing its own Ashover ales, with a big cask and cider range and folk nights.

24.3 km S

An Italianate Victorian mansion kept as found, its faded interiors left unrestored.

24.7 km NE

A private Dukeries estate famous for a reclusive duke's warren of Victorian tunnels.

24.8 km SE

The Don valley's waterway — river, cut and canal linking Sheffield's basin to the Trent at Keadby.

0.7 km NE · South Yorkshire & Lincolnshire

Parkland the Duke of Norfolk gave to Sheffield in 1848, with a wooded ravine.

1.8 km SE

One of the first commercial landscape cemeteries, of 1836, with Egyptian gateways.

1.8 km SW

A country park in South Yorkshire.

9.8 km E

A country park in South Yorkshire.

10 km E

A country park in Derbyshire.

11.2 km SW

Estate village below Wentworth Woodhouse, England's longest country-house facade, with a garden centre, antique shops and an old church.

11.2 km NE · South Yorkshire

Brindley's last canal, from the Trent at West Stockwith through Retford toward Chesterfield — restored in stretches either side of the collapsed Norwood Tunnel.

11.4 km SE · Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire & South Yorkshire